Let’s discuss the acting while we’re at it. The Sandra Bullock girl? Terrible. The High School Musical guy? Dumber than usual. Chris Bruno? Not so much. The only foreseeable excuse to watch this film would be to see Frank Whaley ham it up, but you’d have a better time watching him in that one House episode instead. Oh, and let’s not forget the special effects. I’ve seen better CGI in Spanish music videos. Hell, Sesame Street had a better FX budget than this flick. Absolute rubbish.
A very embarrassed Warner Home Video (under the New Line label) are the people responsible for unleashing this one to DVD and Blu-ray, folks — so write them. On DVD, the film looks decent enough, although it’s painfully clear that somebody really upped the contrast since all blacks have a hue of blue and all reds tend to think pink. In what seems like a throwback to the DVDs of yesteryear, this disc contains an anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 ratio and a Pan & Scan 1.33:1 version. The only sound options here are two modest 5.1 Dolby Digital Surrounds in English and French. Subtitles are in English, French and Spanish.
Accompanying the movie is a 30-minute behind-the-scenes featurette interviewing the cast and crew. The only other special features are an assortment of trailers at the beginning of the disc.
One thing is for sure with The Cell 2: the continuity person was a spaz. One moment it’s snowing or raining, the next it isn’t. Characters that bi-locate at the editor’s will. Wounds miraculously heal or disappear completely. Add some truly terrible (not to mention predictable) writing, editing, and acting; some highly out-of-place Casio demo music; an anti-climactic car chase and some truly anti-suspenseful suspense and you have The Cell 2.
Ed Wood could have made a tighter psychological thriller than this.
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Article comments
1 - me
Terrible film
2 - shelnjosiah
pause the movie at 1 hour 10 minutes and 57 seconds where the killer staps the fbi agent in the back with the axe. You can see that it was made of rubber. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA what a bunch of idiots.
3 - The Black Pixie
Ok, I have to say here that the original 'The Cell' was a Brilliant film, it was a work of art. The cinematography and costumes in the original film were UNFORGETTABLY amazing. I loved it and when I heard of the 'second'
film I immediately went and watched it.
It was a crime to call The cell 2 after such an amazing flim because it is a piece of Sh**. Bad acting, VERY bad writing, terrible in almost every way. (rubber axe, breathing corpses, lame effects...)
So yeah go watch something like 'The Fall' Directed by Tarsem Singh if you want to see a similar film to the original The Cell.