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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: So removed from reality we have to suspend even the suspension of disbelief. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: It's all silly, of course, and you will laugh at the film more than you'll laugh with it. But Cellular does offer a certain mindless pleasure and makes fun of itself. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Another outlandishly cliched L.A.-set movie thriller -- high on action, low on sense. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: A plucky thriller that also serves as a satire on today's instant- gratification phone culture. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: As the brand of thriller where ordinary people are in peril and forced to take extraordinary risks, Cellular is distressingly predictable and not a tad scary. But as a parody of the genre, it's a scream. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... ingenious. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Interestingly, Phone Booth was an over-hyped bust, while this scrappy little B-movie zips along rather entertainingly. Maybe it's a matter of lowered expectations -- and keep them low, because Cellular is no buried treasure. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A ludicrous little abduction thriller that boasts an entertaining cocktail of gunpowder, suspense, adrenaline, and cheese. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Illustrates what happens when a viable premise is spoiled by sheer preposterousness. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Logic has nothing to do with Cellular, but it's so quick-moving and fun we don't care. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: The true beauty of this film is how the dramatic tension builds to almost unbearable levels, only to be snapped by a bit of humor, and then over and over takes up once again. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's like the madly busy climax of an action film stretched out to feature length. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Ellis crafts an impressive procession of car chases, fight scenes and things going boom. And he keeps things moving at such a rip-roaring pace that all the ways in which this movie just doesn't make any sense whatsoever blur into the background. Read more
Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: When director David R. Ellis does nail the perfect popcorn-fest pacing for the script by Chris Morgan and the story by Larry Cohen ... the whole thing skims along on suspension of disbelief. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Too inept to work as what it seems to be, and not clever enough to work as a spoof -- which, if you're feeling charitable, is what you assume they intended. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The story moves briskly, the action is pulse-charging, and the laughs are many. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: There is nothing more to the movie than the usual thrills. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: It's an honest, unpretentious, well-made B picture with a clever, silly premise, a handful of sly, unassuming performances and enough car chases, decent jokes and swervy plot complications to make the price of the ticket seem like a decent bargain. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Ellis manages a few sudden shocks, but he and the editors never discovered the secret of ratcheting up suspense. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Using the clever premise, it packs a lot of thrills into a short space while keeping the level of tension consistently high. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is one of the year's best thrillers. Better than Phone Booth, for my money, and I liked that, too. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The picture has a low-stakes, cop-show vitality to it; it doesn't pretend to be more than the sum of its parts. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: If thrills and spills like the ones in Cellular have been the stuff of melodrama since Pauline was tied to the tracks, mobile phones give a filmmaker more opportunities for cross-cutting and more weird hurdles to jump. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A satisfying marriage of Hitchcockian suspense and brash B-movie energy. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Now you might think there'd be at least a few chills in such a dire predicament, but -- several car chases, a bunch of dirty cops and any number of bogus plot twists later -- you'd be proved wrong. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: An absurdly concocted car chase and rescue operation predicated on the marvels of modern telecommunications. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Buoyant, pleasantly pulpy, invigorating doodle. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Its adroit use of suspense makes you overlook the silliness. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: I enjoyed every one of its 89 minutes. Read more