When I was 8 years old, me and my dad walked into a
nonfranchised video store at the mall. This was a long time ago,
when they didn't have any rules about what you could show at
the mall and what you couldn't. So I'm wandering around looking
at kids videos, and I turn around, and there's a big screen TV
right there showing a Zombie movie. A zombie had just lurched
out of it's grave, and it was all runny and crusty and
Zombiesque.

I didn't sleep for three days. No joke.

I've not been able to watch Zombie movies since, and the choice
tonight was to watch Cellular or Resident Evil: Apocalypse.

I chose Cellular, and I was happy that I did.

Ryan is an irresponsible fun lovin' guy about town just goofin'
off at the beach when he sees his ex-gf walkin around, and he
goes over to talk to her. She gives him an ultimatum- help her
out with her work to prove he can be responsible or he'll never
see her again.

So he sets off to go pick up a load of t-shirts, and on the way,
he gets a phone call. It's from Jessica Martin, who's been
kidnapped, and he's the only chance she's got to get away from
them, except she doesn't know where she is, and she can't get
out, and the kidnappers are after her son and husband.

So he sets off to help her son, but then ... complications arise.

This was a very good movie, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Each complication comes through with a solution that makes
sense, and is set up in some way by something earlier in the
movie, which is a magnificent bit of storytelling. There is not a
hint of deus ex machina.

Unfortunately, as you would assume, this makes for a certain bit
of predictability in how the ending turns out, which I saw coming
about an hour ahead of time. There are also several other
solutions that, though set up earlier, come about way too easily.

There are a number of cameos that I almost didn't recognize-
Jeff Goldblum is in it, the guy from Frequency (who should've
bought stock on Yahoo!- that guy) is in it, and of course, William
H. Macy, who is absolutely one of the coolest actors alive.

I give this movie an E10 rating, based on the RDCMGMMRRS
(see the Suspect Zero movie review for more clarification on the
system).

Go check it out. It's great.

Rift "I think it is kinda cold out..." Traveler