The Cell - 2000

Avery Pix, Caro-McLeod, Katira Productions GmbH & Co, KG

Directed by Tarsem Singh

Cast:

• Catherine Deanne – Jennifer Lopez
• Carl Stargher – Vincent D'Onofrio
• Agt. Peter Novak – Vince Vaughn
• Gordon Ramsey – Jake Weber
• Teddy Lee – James Gammon
• Dr. Miriam Kent – Marianne Jean-Baptiste
• Edward Baines – Colton James
• Lucien Baines – Patrick Bauchau
• Ella Baines – Catherine Sutherland

Story: A particularly evil serial killer is taking young women, drowning them, desecrating their bodies, then leaving them in the open for the police to find. The FBI sends in a three man team led by Teddy Lee, who discovers a very particular animal hair on one of the bodies, which leads them to our suspect, who has just entered into a coma from which he will never awake. So how do they find the latest victim, a young lady taken from the streets and presumed alive? An experimental center where trained psychologists are attempting to connect directly into the minds of others offers them a chance to explore the mind of a serial killer, and it is not a pleasant place to be.

Review: JLo as a young psychoanalyst who smokes a doobie at night to unwind, Vince Vaughn as the serious, intense and driven FBI agent, and Vincent D'Onofrio as the strangely disturbed serial killer are enough to get most people in the door in this surrealistic suspense where the dark chambers of a serial killer is the canvas. The sets, costuming, and photography are eerie and haunting, the images disturbing, and the plot marginally plausible, if not scientifically possible. A very interesting film that does not lack for action or interest. Keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end.