People are voting emotionally.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

When a tone/message from mobile phones - sorry, cellphones - has the effect of rebooting the listener's brain (which means nearly everyone) and turning them into ravening zombies, Clay decides to go looking for his son, picking up other survivors on the way.John Cusack, Sam Jackson, the wonderful Isabelle Fuhrman, a Stephen King story driven by action and event - what could go wrong?This movie, basically. The book, to be fair, was never one of my favourite King offerings - it just didn't work for me. I found it far too generic a zombie-world offering and the characters did little to live in my memory.The film takes that and doesn't so much add nothing, it (unbelievably) reduces it. So what we have is a film which is largely jittercam zombie-avoidance. Which wears thin pretty quickly, particularly as there has been so very, very much of it in recent years.I can't think of a reason for saying "Go and see this film."

CELL is the big-screen adaptation of one my least favourite Stephen King novels. I do like the subject of zombies but in the hands of King they ended up being ridiculous. This film version gets rid of some of the dumber elements from the novel - the levitation scenes, for example - but is still in no way good. Things are at their best in the early outbreak scene, which suffers from shaky camera syndrome a bit but is generally exciting if you can ignore the odd dodgy CGI shot of an exploding plane and the like. John Cusack, looking tired and bloated, is a poor choice of lead, while Samuel L. Jackson is purely on autopilot here and has none of the fire-and-brimstone charisma you see from him elsewhere. The film gets worse as it goes along, lacking suspense and saddled with unlikeable characters and cliched situations, until it ends on a scene which made me laugh out loud at the inept cheapness of it all.

Most peoples mobile phones emit a signal that make them go crazy.I read the book sometime ago and wasn't particularly impressed. It has a fairly good premise but Stephen King can never resist a show down with a literal bogey man that just makes things ridiculous.This film is OK. I don't think it deserves as many 1*s as it got, but if you were looking forward to seeing this I can see why people were disappointed. Being forewarned by all the bad reviews I wasn't expecting much.Everything about this film is below average from acting, to script to camera work. But it is ok to watch.The story is pretty silly and futile. As things progress it is hard to tell where the characters are going, or why, or why some people are affected and others not.

Another zombie movie. That should say it all. Yes, Stephen King is one creative writer and his solution to the zombie plague at least makes sense. But this movie turns the sense into yet another anti-technology sermon. And it is slow, so slow.