Cady's Take:

Jessica Martin (Kim Bassinger) is a high school biology teacher who gets kidnapped and locked inside an attic. Since science is her thing, she uses her MacGyver-like skills and is able to put together pieces of a broken phone and randomly calls Ryan (Chris Evans), a young, irresponsible, beach bum. She convinces him to take his cell phone to the police, but nobody is buying his story at the police station, so it's up to Ryan to save the day and prevent Jessica and her family from being executed.

Cellular goes too over-the-top in almost every sequence, and throws some pretty insane clichés at you. I was constantly rolling my eyes. It just seemed as though I was watching the sequel to PhoneBooth, another movie I could barely sit through!

But, if you can get past the far-fetched distractions, and numerous plot holes, you might enjoy this movie based on the amount of action it gives you. On the other hand, if you are one of those analytical, intellectual movie watching types that enjoys films that make you think - Don't bother with Cellular.

"Cellular" was a pleasant surprise. This is a plain old action movie, with the usual preposterous set up and finale. What is surprising is all that is in between. Kim Basinger plays Jessica, a science teacher taken hostage from her own home. Her husband has something they want, and she ends up locked in an attic somewhere with a broken telephone. Luckily, Jessica is a science teacher and by clicking some wires together she manages to randomly call Ryan, played by Chris Evans, a young beach bum who does not believe the crazy lady on the other end of his cell phone. This is about the first ten minutes and I remember thinking "Thank goodness this is only an hour and a half long."

But then "Cellular" surprises us. There are plenty of good movies that require we suspend belief to enjoy them. Is it obvious that they could not have made Jessica a receptionist, because she has to know not only how to repair a broken telephone (she's a biology teacher but whatever) she also has to know a few other important scientific-esque things to make it through the movie alive? Yeah. But so what? This movie is about obstacles and solutions. The movie throws a problem at Ryan and Jessica, and one or both of them solve it. In addition, considering they do not appear in a scene together until the end of the movie, Basinger and Evans have chemistry.

So throw caution to the wind and give this one a shot. I say that even if the jumping off point and the destination leave something to be desired, the ride is well worth 90 minutes.