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Specifications: - Region 1 - Run time: approx. 107 minutes - Subtitles: English - Scene selection: static - Package: Snap case
Video Features: - Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 widescreen
Audio Features: - English: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English: Dolby Surround
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Two feature-length commentaries -
Original documentary: "Style As -
Visual Effects Vignettes: an alternate -
Deleted scenes with optional director - Isolated music score -
Interactive brain map and empathy - Cast and crew filmographies - Theatrical trailer - International teaser trailer
DVD-ROM* features: -
Script-to-screen, featuring dynamic -
Fully playable demo of Sierra Studios -
Web link** to the original web site, Theatrical Release: 2000 DVD Release: 12/19/00 Review Date: 12/14/00
List price: $ 24.98 On-line price: $ 17.49 Pre-order price was: $ 15.99
*DVD-ROM features require DVD-ROM drive on your PC with certain minimum system requirements
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Cell New Line Platinum Series™ |
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Starring:
Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent
Director: Tarsem Singh
MPAA Rating: R Genre: Psychological Thriller Studio: New
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Movie: B+ Video: A Audio: A- Extras: A+
Summary:
"The Cell" is a startling and terrifying look at the inner workings of a
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The Story
In the future, a psychologist can help a comatose patient by entering his mind to bring him out of the dream sequence. Billionaire Lucien Baines (Patrick Bauchau) funds the Campbell Center for researching mind exploration. Child therapist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) is participating in an experimental study in which she enters the mind of young Edward (Colton James) in the hopes of establishing communication with him and eventually helping him to come out of his coma. Mr. Baines maintains serious doubts of the scientific mind exploration since there has been no proof of progress, but he is persuaded by his wife to continue to support the experimental trial for another six months.
Meanwhile, the FBI is in search of a serial killer (Vincent D'Onofrio) who has sadistically murdered three young women. He has just captured his fourth victim, but has fallen into a comatose state. The only clues the FBI agents have is that he owns an albino dog. With incredible persistence and luck, the FBI finds the murderer's home and takes him into custody. However, the FBI has only forty hours to find the last victim and save her from an agonizing death. With the murderer in a comatose state and his prognosis bleak, FBI agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn) desperately tries the mind exploration technique where Catherine would venture into the serial murderer's mind to find out where the last victim is held captive.
The film is visually stunning and has some disturbing and grotesque visuals and sequences to which some viewers may take offense. (What did you expect from a movie that is about mind exploration of a serial killer?) However, if you can bear such images, "The Cell" is a fascinating and terrifying voyage into the human mind (albeit quite a sick one since it is the mind of a serial killer). The visual effects and portrayal of the human inner mind are stunning and creatively brilliant.
The Extras
The isolated music score presents the whole movie with just the music score (with no dialogue or Foley sound effects). The deleted and extended scenes are entitled: "Trapped in the Cell", "Despair in the Cell", "Extended Raid", "Early Exit", "Novak and Ramsey", "Stargher's Room", "Confrontation with Carl" (extended), and "Carl with Victim" (extended). They can be viewed with or without the director's commentary. Like many other New Line Home Video deleted scenes, these deleted and extended scenes have the image quality of the finished feature film.
The visual effects vignettes feature six segments in which the DVD angle feature is used to offer different perspectives on each visual effect. It's a cool feature that allows you to see the "interview" with the visual effects supervisor, make-up designer, and/or digital animator (depending on the segment); or see the "on the set" perspective; or see the storyboard "artwork" perspective. With the angle feature, you can jump between the different perspectives randomly on-the-fly. The brain map feature is quite educational, that is if you're interested in learning more about the human brain. Be sure to take the interactive empathy test as it gives you insight into your own level of empathy.
As if that wasn't enough, there are DVD-ROM features: a script-to-screen feature with dynamic index; a fully playable demo of Sierra Studios "Cataclysm" game, and a web link to the original web site. The script-to-screen feature is pretty cool. You can watch the movie in a small window with full motion video while browsing through the screenplay in a separate text window.
I gave this DVD our highest rating (A+) in the "extra material" category. Need we say more? From our experience, New Line Platinum Series™ DVDs set a pretty high standard for quality and quantity of extra material, and "The Cell" is no exception.
Video & Audio
The image quality of this anamorphic widescreen DVD is very good. The colors are accurate and saturated. The shadow details are superb. The Dolby Digital 5.1-channel surround sound is very well balanced and effective. The dialogue is clear, and powerful music score effectively engages the viewer in this psychological thriller.
Recommendation
"The Cell" is a startling and terrifying look at the inner workings of a serial killer's mind. It is a visually and psychologically stunning film as it explores the unknown world of the human brain and the inner thoughts of a serial murderer. If you're looking for a good psychological thriller and can put up with some disturbing and grotesque visuals, you're in for quite a ride.
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