Review – The Cell

Just what we’ve all been waiting for: a remake of Dreamscape for a more violent, art-direction-intensive world. Throw in dashes from a number of popular pictures (Silence of the Lambs, The Matrix, and several others) and you’ve got the makings of a boring Frankenstein’s monster of a movie. The story is about a woman (Jennifer Lopez) who uses a machine to link up to a comatose kid in an attempt to figure out what traumatized him. The FBI horns in on her project, asking her to link up with a catatonic serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) so they can locate his latest victim before she dies. Once inside his head, the whole show sort of becomes an extended music video for an annoying, pretentious band. Of course, it’s possible that I just resent the whole thing because it was hyped as being one of the goriest movies ever made, a promise not even vaguely kept in either quantity or quality. See if desperate