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Plot: After a signal spurs the bulk of people into a series of violent mental and physical changes, a group of survivors treks across what remains in a bid to find others.
There certainly is a lot of promise in the concept of Cell. Moments show glimmers of something that could of been a breath of fresh air, even. Alas, despite this not being a zombie movie outright, it is riddled with tropes of the genre. Moments seem unearned, plot elements seem to pop out of nowhere, and a profoundly cheap look renders some moments outright wince-inducing. Not to mention, the movie is riddled with inadvertent comedy. You don't need a big budget to get an interesting premise across but you do need good character work, invested acting, and a spark of creative juice. Cell lacks all that and more. It goes without saying that someone looking for a decent adaptation of the book won't really get that here but they also won't get something that stands on its own merits.
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Movie Maniac added The Lost Boys (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital) [4K UHD] to owned list
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