Product Details

• Actors: Tessie Santiago, Chris Bruno, Frank Whaley, Bart Johnson, Michael Flynn
• Directors: Tim Iacofano
• Writers: Alex Barder, Lawrence Silverstein, Erik Klein, Rob Rinow
• Producers: Alex Barder, Kevin Kasha, Lawrence Silverstein
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0026LYLTM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,420 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Cell 2" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This straight-to-DVD sequel to the 2000 Jennifer Lopez picture must play its mind games without Lopez herself. But the idea's still intact: another telepathic mind-melder (played by Tessie Santiago) is employed by the police to get into the brain of a serial killer. She's been clinically dead six times or something, and can "see" in a way others cannot. She was herself once held by the madman, who has figured out a way to wipe his face out of her visions of his dark, torture-filled world. Where the original film directed by Tarsem (the music-video veteran and maker of The Fall) at least provided some gaudy visuals for the already-tired premise, The Cell 2 has 24 producer-director Tim Iacofano at the helm. The sense of overheated episodic television prevails, although the acting can charitably be described as beneath the level of an average TV show. (The exception is the villain, after he's unmasked, but those kinds of roles reliably provide opportunities for mustache-twirling shenanigans.) One begins to miss the old-fashioned simplicity of a normal mad-killer movie; now you've got to keep straight how each scene alters the memories, or unconscious minds, or the ability to foretell things, or... see, already we've lost track. --Robert Horton

Product Description

The cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life over and over again untl they beg to die! maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the cuspss first victim! Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 06/16/2009 Starring: Tessie Santiago Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R Director: Tim Iacofano

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Sequel" That We Really Don't Need, July 3, 2009

By	Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Of all the films released in the last decade, "The Cell" would be one of the least likely candidates for a sequel. Well, they decided to make "The Cell 2" anyway, without Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio. In fact, "The Cell 2" could be called in any way you want, like "Kiss the Girls 3" or "Saw 9." Whatever it is, the film is a lifeless rehash of serial killer stories you ever heard, told in the most thrill-less fashion you can imagine.

Tessie Santiago is Maya, an agent who has special powers. Just by touching an object that belonged to someone, she can see things about that person. When an elusive serial killer named "The Cusp" is back, (and this killer, who abducts and tortures victims before killing, is actually responsible for her supernatural powers), she decides to use her unwanted ability again.

The story of "The Cell" (2000) was shallow at best, it is certain, but the original has the impressive visuals thanks to director Tarsem Singh, costume designers Eiko Ishioka and April Napier, and special make-ups by Michèle Burke and Edouard F. Henriques (the last category nominated for Oscar). In the sequel, however, you have none of these nice visuals and designs (except the beautiful filming location of Utah) while the story gets only shallower, with the insipid storytelling, 30 minutes' worth of story dragged out to 90 minutes. Everything is repetitious and obvious in this painfully tiresome film.

I watched this in-name-only sequel partly because it has Frank Whaley. He is not bad, actually he is very good. He deserves a much better script than this one, though.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars In Name Only, July 6, 2009

By	Mystic "mysticdeath28" (los angeles,CA) - See all my reviews

I rented this movie because of the name. I figure it would have some nice special effects like the original. I knew that it was a direct to DVD sequel. I knew the special effects couldn't live up to the orignial. I agree the killer belongs to the SAW movies. Instead of him dying from cancer or he's just some average looking Joe. When this chicks goes into the killer mind there is not journey to be found. I keep seeing the same rooms and that's very dark and industrial looking. They couldn't even get her a killer wardrobe. It was very predictable and the characters were very predictable. Maybe Maya have been the most interesting character. Stay away from this film.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Two stars for the Utah scenery...and that is it., June 10, 2009

By	Steve Kuehl "SLV Video" (Ben Lomond, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Cell 2 [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Had to give this a fair shot as The Cell is a popular long-term rental here, but the franchise will have to stop there.

Laundry list/bad: writing, editing, sound mixing, acting, dead bodies that breathe in the morgue, corny macho local cops vs: Feds, C grade effects, really bad makeup, and so on. The kicker (for those that follow all of the bad flubs regarding medical stuff in film): Our main deputy and important character later in the film says: "I used to be an EMT, I can check her pulse" and does so for three seconds with his thumb and states she's all good. The writing was that caliber throughout.

The good: the two stars go for the beginning and end credits with those beautiful Utah mountains and salt flats in Blu clarity. Was a great promo for tourism there, but nothing else appears as relevant for testing the display or sound mixing. The supplemental documentary ran 30 minutes and wreaked of how incredible everyone was to work with. Includes some great examples of what not to say about film making and how not to be interviewed during your early acting career.

You might get some light entertainment as a rental, and I want to list all of the other things wrong with this, but I do not want to harp on it any more. Not a reference Blu, can't recommend it.