So-so thriller that is too intense for tweens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2004

Cellular, based on a story by Larry (Phone Booth) Cohen, is a mobile phone thriller starring Nokia - it's depressingly implausible

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2004

It's the classic Hitchcock 'wrong man' set-up, pulled off with wit, energy, and a healthy sense of the ridiculous.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2004

It's mad, bad nonsense of the summer, popcorn variety, disposable but oh-so-much fun to endure, a roller coaster on a wobbly cinematic track.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2004

Much like writer Larry Cohen's other telephone thriller, Cellular is an exuberantly silly, more than a bit over-the-top B-movie thriller told with far more flair than it probably deserves.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 18, 2004

Buoyant, pleasantly pulpy, invigorating doodle.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2004

The picture has a low-stakes, cop-show vitality to it; it doesn't pretend to be more than the sum of its parts.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2004

It's Ellis's dedication to providing an unrelenting series of silly B-movie set pieces that makes the ridiculous Cellular ring.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Its adroit use of suspense makes you overlook the silliness.

| Sep 10, 2004

I enjoyed every one of its 89 minutes.

| Sep 10, 2004

An absurdly concocted car chase and rescue operation predicated on the marvels of modern telecommunications.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2004

A plucky thriller that also serves as a satire on today's instant- gratification phone culture.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 10, 2004

As the brand of thriller where ordinary people are in peril and forced to take extraordinary risks, Cellular is distressingly predictable and not a tad scary. But as a parody of the genre, it's a scream.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Highly improbable, maniacally action-packed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2004

There is nothing more to the movie than the usual thrills.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Logic has nothing to do with Cellular, but it's so quick-moving and fun we don't care.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Now you might think there'd be at least a few chills in such a dire predicament, but -- several car chases, a bunch of dirty cops and any number of bogus plot twists later -- you'd be proved wrong.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2004

Comes fully charged if just a little bit silly, a wham-bam action flick with no pretense and plenty of fun.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 10, 2004