Entertaining. Review on Cellular Movie

It is not a remarkable coincidence that both 'Cellular' and 'Phone Booth' have been written by the same writer Larry Cohen.

Although revolving around Graham Bell's invention, they are differen cos one is about a man trapped on a phone in a booth, and the other is about a man who is still trapped on a phone but can go anywhere.

But movies however are thrilling and never flag in pace and are true paise vasool.

It is skillfully plotted and there are no loose ends. There might be some skepticism as

to how situations are most convenient in a thriller like this. But then what the heck.

Kim Basinger stars as Jessica, a high school science teacher who is kidnapped and held prisoner in an attic.

The men who have taken her want something from her husband which she knows nothing about.

They know where her son Ricky attends school and plan to kidnap him, too. The kidnappers are led by Greer,played by Jason Statham.

The attic has a wall phone, which is smashed to bits. But Jessica the science teacher is able to fit some of the parts back together and click on the wires trying to make a call. She reaches Ryan (Chris Evans), a twentysomething kid who doesn't believe her when she says she has been kidnapped.

Jessica pleads with him to hand his cell phone to a cop.

Something in her voice convinces him and walks into a police station and hands the phone to a desk cop named Mooney (the brilliant William H. Macy), who gets sidetracked and advises him to go to homicide, up on the fourth floor. Mooney is about to retire and open a day spa with his wife, something he is not sure of since his instincts as a cop means always something is nagging him.

We slowly learn why the kidnappers are after Jessica's husband and Ryan continues to hurdle past obstacles to get to the family. Most amusing are the scenes where he robs a lawyer of his car twice and flashes a gun in a cell phone store to get a charger and then pays for it.

These strange crimes, reported on TV,attract Mooney's attention and he starts tracking Ryan.

There are the usual car chase scenes amd thrills, chills & spills which do keep the viewer on edge.

And also every possible usage of a cell phone is explorer. This film may very well prove to be the

ad for increasing cell phone usage.

Director David Ellis does not allow the pace to flag and although there are patches of low plausibility

still he keeps the film taut and keeps his characters human.

Basinger is ideally cast here and Chris Evans is appopriate for the role of Ryan.

But the show stealer is undoubtedly Macy , is there any role that this man cannot do ?

This is the thriller of the year by far and I guess Larry Cohen must be right now cooking up another thriller for us