The Cell

The Cell

Do not let Jennifer Lopez discourage you.

Plot:

A psychotherapist and the mind of a serial killer.

Review:

Jennifer Lopez plays the role of Catherine Deane, a highly skilled psychotherapist and works for a company that has developed a new technology in therapy. It gives the therapist the possiblity of entering a patients mind and see what goes inside of it. Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) is an FBI agent that has been trying to catch a serial killer by the name of Carl Stargher (Vincent D'onofrio). His trademark is drowning his victims and then dressing them up like dolls. 

Given Starghers filming of the process he kidnaps his victims and brings them to a place where he has everything set up. During an FBI raid Stargher ends up in a coma and can therefore not reveal where his latest victim is held unless they try an alternative approach and this is where Catherine Deane comes into the picture.

Very interesting movie and you get taken into a very disturbed mind of that of the killer. Vincent D'onofrio plays the twisted killer very convincingly. The director shows us a violent, twisted and macabre world inside the killers head and then the daunting task of trying to navigate it. Serial killers being depicted on film has been done time and time again this however is a refreshing and different approach to it.

This being a visual film I find it contraproductive to write more about it, as the old saying goes about pictures contra words. I realize now I've done quite a few reviews on movies with a strong visual focus but thats something I feel lacking in the majority of films thats being made. It gets the imagination working and you get to actually experience this other world for yourself as opposed to everything being so very predictable and blunt.

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