Phonetastic!

Kim Basinger plays a mother who gets kidnapped by the ever British and always slightly below par actor that is Jason Statham, and his band of roguish ruffians. Somehow able to piece together a broken phone (some things we should just accept), she manages to make one random phone call, and lucky for her gets a hapless teenager (played by Chris Evans, no not the ginger British one, the American teen movie one) who she convinces into helping her.

I had far more fun with Cellular than I ever expected to. It throws you right into the thick of it and doesn?t really let up until the final act. There?s suspense, drama and most surprisingly humour to boot. As well as being impressively clever in the heat of the moment, the antics as our unlikely teen hero bring plenty of laughs, which for me made this shine above the rest of the kidnap/chase movies we have all saw before. Don?t get me wrong, it wasn?t a comedy, the tension and the drama were all still there, I?ve never been on the edge of my seat before over a mobile phone losing its charge, or the threat of having to drive through a tunnel.

It doesn?t take a glam premiere, 30 storey advertising or a10 Disc Special Edition DVD box set, with glossy 8? x 10? photos and porcelain bookends to make a good film. Cellular is an extremely fun ride, that shouldn?t be taken too seriously, and sometimes that?s all that matters. I urge everyone to see it, at least once.