Rating of
2.5/4
"Will sue you 2" (Licence plate on Stolen car)
MovieAddict - wrote on 06/22/13
"It's a day spa, you f***!"
A biology teacher (Kim Bassinger) is at home, talking with the maid, when suddenly some bad guys storm the room, shoot the maid and take the woman hostage. She is locked up in a cellar, clueless as to what's going on. She desperately searches for a way out and soon sees a phone, only to have it smashed when her menacing kidnapper (Jason Statham) re-enters the room.
She is able to piece it back together long enough to make a random call to a stranger. The guy on the other end is just your average college aged kid (Chris Evans) who at first thinks it's a joke (as you would), but soon realizes she's for real when he hears her getting beaten up by one of her kidnappers. She tells him that the kidnappers have actually targeted her husband and kid and were threatening to kill them.
From that moment Ryan does everything from stealing cars, holding a cell phone store hostage for a battery, (then paying for it), to going toe to toe with the hostage takers. Along the way he is helped by a policeman played by William H. Macy who is outstanding as the apparently soft-hearted cop keen to retire and run a day spa with his wife. Also featuring Jessica Biel as Ryan's disbelieving girlfriend!
Even though sometimes you feel as though you are watching one long cellular phone advertisement for Nokia, Cellular is a fast paced thriller with a lot of car chases and edge of your seat moments.
