Better than remake

Adam 2021-12-12 08:01:07

"Cellular" (A line of life)

A female teacher who teaches biology sent her children to school. She went home and was suddenly kidnapped and imprisoned. When she was desperate, she picked up the smashed phone and dialed out. The phone was connected. She had never met. The stranger became their family’s only hope...



This is the plot at the beginning of the first line of life in the movie. I may be one of the few people who have watched the original after watching the remake of "Keep the Call" by Chen Musheng. It is inevitable to compare. The remake is 20 minutes longer than the original film, and has enough time to explain the background more completely than the US version, and there are more villains in the plot. The overall feeling is that the US version is more entertaining and relaxed. It is not as intense and serious as the remake. It is a bit strange to say that a crime film is not thrilling, let’s see below. Of course, Big S’s performance is incomparable with Kim Basinger (have you seen someone crying and crying for a long time without tears), but Kim’s performance is a bit too far, and those bad guys are much weaker than the gangsters in many dramas. Now, I have to say that Liu Ye really can't play the role of Jerry Statham. No matter how loudly intimidating and exaggerated, he shot many people to death and injured many people and felt that he was acting. On the other hand, Jerry Statham didn't show how bad it was in the film, and it was terrifying. Appearance can't replace acting, but it's really important. The handsome and tall Liu Ye obviously can't replace the muscular man with rough texture and the breath of wild beasts.



The handsome guys and beauties of "Cellular", the beach bikini background may attract the audience's attention (just distracted), anyway, they are not so nervous. Chris Evans showed off his muscular upper body when he came up, and later he took part in the "Fantastic Four" with his superior appearance. Chris’s acting skills are ordinary, but his unpretentious performance is naturally like a boy next door. His role is not sensational, and he is not portrayed as a civilian hero. Let him and the BOSS stand alone, and the audience feels more real. More affinity. This is what happened to an ordinary person. The young man who had just lost his relationship received a call for help and couldn't see his death without saving. As a result, the cynical young man couldn't laugh, and he had to save the family. He doesn’t know how to use a gun. He tried to rescue the children before the prisoners, but he didn’t catch up. In the end, the old police rescued them. Without his cleverness, the police couldn’t catch them at all. Without him, the old police officers could also find out by calling the location. Not the bad guy's position.



Speaking of acting, being tepid is also a problem for Chris, just like last year's "Captain America" ​​and "Avengers", compared with other heroes, the captain seems too impersonal.



Another place that is constantly ridiculed is the mobile phone advertisement. If the insertion of the advertisement can be so difficult to detect, it is really too successful. As an important prop for contacting the heroine, the NOKIA mobile phone appears on the screen from time to time, which promotes the plot. , The mobile phone will always run out of power, so there is an interesting scene of robbing the repair center. Calls would cross the line, so the ridiculous lawyer appeared, not only the phone was robbed, but also the car was robbed. In the end of the film, the name of the main creator and star is displayed on the screen of the mobile phone ingeniously. Thanks a lot to the sponsors, and the subsequent versions also use this design.



Almost the whole story is chasing, but it is not as suffocating as "Life and Death". The ending of this kind of film is satisfactory, and there are many funny things. For example, the old police who are jokes about "wives control" are covered with green. Face mask with unknown ingredients, and he hadn’t shot the prisoner in 27 years. At the end, when the heroine asked how to thank him, the hero said "I know, don't call me anymore" XD, anyway If you like Captain America, Chris Evans can go and watch this 2005 film. If there is someone who was surprised by the straight-haired Jessica Bell like me, you can also go and watch it. She only appears. After a few minutes, there are both the beginning and the end.

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Cellular quotes

  • Ryan: You know, it does me no good to hand over the video tape and then you guys turn around and take us out.

    Greer: I swore I wouldn't do that.

    Ryan: Like you swore "to protect and serve"?

  • [Mooney shoots someone for the first time in his entire career]

    Mooney: 27 years. 27 years without this shit!

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