Cellphone

Stumbling upon this 2024 movie titled "Cellphone" by random luck, I opted to sit down and watch it on account of it being a movie that I had never seen, nor actually heard about. And with it being a horror movie of sorts, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and check out what director Luke Sommer and writer Rachel Sommer had to offer.

The storyline was somewhat of a swing and a miss. THere wasn't a whole lot of anything interesting happening, and sitting around watching the lives of Wynne (played by Whitney Rose Pynn) and Chris (played by Justin Malik Jackson) just didn't really make for an overly interesting narrative.

It was a relatively small cast ensemble in the movie, and I was only familiar with Malcolm McDowell. The acting performances in the movie were actually fair, despite the fact that the script was a dumpster fire.

I managed to suffer through a gutwretching 45 minutes of absolute boredom before I tossed the towel in the ring. This movie took forever to go nowhere. I am not kidding here, nothing happened in those long, oh so very long, 45 minutes that I suffered through. And believe you me, I am never returning to attempt finish watching "Cellphone".

This movie was a swing and a miss. And there wasn't an ounce of horror in it to be seen throughout the 45 minutes I endured. Well, unless you consider absolutely nothing happening on the screen as horror, if so, then you're in for quite a treat.

My rating of director Luke Sommer's 2024 movie "Cellphone" lands on a one out of ten stars.

I started watching this one night while working on a project, had no interest, but ended up selecting it again a couple weeks later forgetting I had already attempted it.

The story is far below lacking, the main female character is terribly miscast, but the main male character is pretty good (Not the fiance-the neighbor). Considering the script, he made it work for his role. I looked him up to see if he had something to do with creating the movie, as he was the only character that seemed comfortable, but no. He's only in one other movie with a "rating", which also seems to be fake-rated by people who worked on the movie.

For the female character though - without a spoiler, I will say there is a scene that is meant to be scary - she is driving - but her unfortunate acting paired with the absurd attempt at jump-scare, did give me the the biggest laugh of the film.

The choice of Malcom McDowell was a win-lose situation. He's an icon for his genre, but having his "role" where you could only show his image on screen for a moment, then the rest is obviously a voice recording just took it from low-budget horror to cheap, spent-the-only-budget-on-this horror.

Production - surprisingly very good cinematography. I say surprisingly because I don't think many will invest the time in watching the whole movie, but if they do, that's the one glaringly obvious imbalance.

Cinematography/photography production far outweighs the story/majority of acting. The location, set, aerials, very well done. If the same person created the script as they did everything else-stick to everything else-and vice versa. They either personally know the writer, or the writer got lucky. If they know their worth, that explains the budget remaining for the lead actress. Worth it.

Props, rarely would I bring this up, but I'm pretty sure the phone used throughout the movie is a wallet cover and piece of green paper. It would have been better if they acknowledge the lead females poor acting and called the phone a "Crapple". At least embrace it.

Either way. Hopefully the main male character has an opportunity for another movie - I'd be interested in seeing if he has range - but this movie didn't give me enough to want watch his other movie.

My recommendation is to watch it if you personally know someone affiliated with making it, watch clips of it without actors or audio if you're searching for a undiscovered gem of a cinematography team, otherwise, maybe listen to it to fall asleep?

I had such high hopes for this movie. Seemed like it might be a little different from the norm. But the longer I watched it the worse it just kept getting. The acting was not great. The scenes with her dead fiance had nothing to do with anything. All in all this movie was a complete mess. Then we got to the end and it was just ridiculous. Nothing tied together or made any sense at all. The cellphone? It never explained why that was so important. Perhaps just to have a way of "Bob" , Malcolm McDowell 's part to be able to call in and there was a big name attached to the movie? Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time.

It amazes me that some movies get past script approval, Cellphone sadly is another such example.

It's not as if this story hasn't been told many times before, it has, and in many better ways but this boring, repetitive and unfortunately poorly acted waste of time needs avoiding at all costs.

I can't be bothered with explaining the story because it's so puerile it's not worth the effort.

My only hope is that my review might stop one unfortunately cinema goer or indeed anyone from wasting their time and money on this insult to cinema, don't even be tempted, I have wasted my time and money for you and you're most welcome, just trust me.

Remember when you were choosing which movie to go and watch and it was between Cellphone and "A N other" movie - choose the other one, wish I had.

This movie was incredibly slow-paced, to the point where I found myself nodding off and had to stand up to keep myself awake. It's surprising that it's labeled as Horror-Mystery because there was hardly anything scary or mysterious about it; instead, it felt more like a drama-documentary. The plot was uninteresting and didn't make much sense, and the ending was confusing, leaving me feeling like I wasted a good 90 minutes of my time. This is by far the worst movie I've ever seen. The acting was subpar, and the only emotion I felt while watching it was shame-for witnessing such a poorly made film and for the time I'll never get back. The secondary characters were so poorly written that they're not even worth mentioning. Overall, this movie was a complete waste of resources, time, and, well, just a waste. I strongly advise against watching it.