FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE The Cell 

The Cell comes across as a bizarre mix of science fiction and serial killer thriller, a clever mind game and pop psychology. We take a trip into the mind of a killer so abysmally perverse that other well-known serial killers could go to school on him. Best of all, for all its visual fireworks, The Cell also always remains a story in which we care about the individual characters. A lot is at stake and we are completely involved! Some customers of our video store don't like The Cell, consider it too pretentious. But I think it's one of the best films of its time! Jennifer Lopez plays Catherine Deane, a social worker. She is a strong woman who builds bonds with particularly problematic patients. Now she is chosen for a technical experiment in which her mind must connect with a young boy. The boy is in a coma. Will she be able to free him? Right at the beginning she rides through a desert in a white robe, she almost manages to make contact, but then... The Cell uses the method of mind sharing. The mind trips take place in a laboratory, so that scientists observe the test subjects. They, in turn, hang in the air using virtual reality equipment. The thriller plot runs in parallel when the police find a prepared corpse. The victim of a serial killer, recognizable by the fact that he makes up the corpses like dolls. It is found out that he kills in a kind of ritual for hours. But how to determine the identity of the last victim before the ritual will be completed? But only by sneaking into the killer's subconscious. For that, the FBI turns to Catherine Deane.... Three types of stories are intertwined. A science fiction film about virtual reality, because once the mind thinks something is real, it can become real and deadly. On this level, The Cell functions as a visionary fantasy in the spirit of the surrealist classics of the 1920s. Spaces of thought are created. Last, The Cell is also a suspenseful psychological thriller in which a victim fights for his life while the FBI puzzles together clues. This mix may put some off, but throughout The Cell serves our imaginations as well as our emotions. In a Hollywood world of remakes and despondent Netflix films, The Cell comes across as an ambitious venture! Directed by debutant Tarsem Singh, it's all about risk. Namely, the risk of making a complete fool of himself! He proves that ancient visual language and modern technology make a whole and indeed a creative thrust, as we would not even think possible!