A movie review, made by my brother, to the sequel of an interesting surrealist film The Cell (I'd recommend it whatever there's a seal child in a desert that only speaks the language of nightmares). Apparently the protagonist is a cop with psychic powers. Here, feast your orficies:
The Breakdown of The Cell 2 which words cannot describe, except mine because I describe them
(Added after the movie: Dude you are not going to believe the second half of this was actually in the movie but I swear to god ITS ALL TRUE.)
So The Cell 2. Fucking retarded. Im just going to rant as I see it. The bad guy, who according to the back of the DVD, is "The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die!" They demonstrate hes crazy because he has a table full of torture tools. And is apparently a werewolf judging from how hard hes panting at all times.
Oh god, the bad guy has banter, this is not ok. Also he put a plastic bag over a ladies head, THEN began strangling her, entirely negating the point of the plastic bag. This is the first time I have ever seen a guy attempt to doublestrangle somebody.
OK BULLSHIT. BULL. SHIT. he brings his victims back with CPR. THIS MEANS HIS VARIETY OF TORTURE TOOLS ARE USELESS MOVIE. You cant use CPR to bring someone back after you kill them with boltcutters and a wrench. I guess he moonlights as FUCKING TIM THE TOOLGUY, because not even torturers who /dont/ need their victims in perfectly stable and functional condition each and every time they medically kill them have this many goddamn utensils...wait is that...
oh my shit thats a holepuncher. WHAT THE FUCK WOULD HE DO WITH A HOLE PUNCHER MOVIE. IM NOT MOCKING YOU, I MUST KNOW.
Oh my god these are the most incompetent investigators ever. They said they couldnt find any hiding places around the CRIME SCENE IN THE FUCKING FOREST. THEY LITERALLY CANNOT SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES.
Also apparently a conductor saw a Navy Blue Acura Legend parked by the railway station. GEE WHIZ I WONDER WHO SPONSERED THIS FILTH. There is no reason to suspect that this car is connected to the killer in any way so I guess it must be, which means its time to shift to /another/ scene of the exact same people standing over a slightly different crime scene, which makes the fourth goddamn scene of the same four people investigating a crime scene in the first 15 minutes. OH GEEZ WHIZ, THE CRIMINAL CAN CARRY OUT HIS CRIMES WITHOUT LEAVING ANY CLUES AND HAS A MEDICAL BACKGROUND SO HE HAS TO BE A COP, BECAUSE...because fuck it. So we are two steps of stupid logic into this crime scene, but whatever. So the killer could be ANY of the cops in the movie.
there are only four named cops in the movie.
Two of them were chasing the killer in the opening scene. Of the two remaining cops, one has a niece who is the person they are currently trying to save from The Cusp. The fourth is off screen for long periods of time.
Nice try Cell 2, but I figured out your connundrum literally ten seconds after you proposed the question. The only way I could answer it quicker is if I could SOMEHOW SEE INTO THE MINDS OF POLICE OFFICERS.
Welp we just had five minutes of dialogue with one man rigidly grabbing the other mans balls.
so the guy who vanishes for long periods of time used to be an EMT. I know this because in the middle of a discussion about how the Protagonist got her PSYCHIC POWERS, he randomly interrupts her to take her pulse at which point he says "Its fine, I used to be an EMT." They then continue talking about her PSYCHIC POWERS as if noone had randomly grabbed anyone elses wrist and said something not tied to the conversation at all. Really all this does is make me wonder which cop has a medical background. The foreshadowing couldn't be more awkward if it had a butthole to poop itself with.
...The Cusp takes off the victims hood and tells her, word for word, "Today, we are going to talk about...ELECTRICITY. Did you know that the amount of electricity in the human brain would only be enough to power a lightbulb? Your entire body runs on electricity, which is channeled through your nerve endings." MFW The Cusp is Bill Nye The Science guy
Oh my god Sam, everyone in this is retarded. The Jerk good cop finds some of the hair of Good Cop with niece at the crime scene, immediately pulls a gun on him and accuses him of being the Cusp. The protagonists reaction is immediately to cold cock her superior officer on the back of the fucking head and run away with the guy who was just accused of being the killer. The fourth cop's reaction is to have been offscreen for the last 10 minutes because HES THE FUCKING CUSP.
On the run for a crime they didnt commit, our heros decide to do some Encyclopedia Brown shit, and go back to the crime scene they already investigated. They find zero clues, which gives them the amazing conclusion that the crime must have happened at the other crime scene they already investigated. Once there they see a man who is clearly Cop #4, spying on them. He gets into a Navy Blue Acura Legend and they drive after him.
CAR CHASE. REALLY SHITTY CAR CHASE. IN MY FUCKING CELL.
The Cusp ramps off a tow truck then pulls a fucking tokyo drift in the middle of a warehouse around the pursuing car because ACURA IS LEGEND. At this exact moment, the two protagonists car's engine hard stalls in the middle of running, seemingly in retribution of this mockery of physics, and also because the director doesnt actually know how to end a car chase.
I suddenly want to buy a Navy Blue Acura Legend. Its like someone broke into my mind and put images of a Navy Blue Acura Legend in my mind so that I would buy a Navy Blue Acura Legend.
5 minute focus on minor character who has appeared for five seconds in one previous scene, talking to a corpse about how catching the Cusp will get him a book deal, even though that makes no sense because hes a coroner. Name drops being on Oprah as his final endgame. The protagonists then talk to him for one minute to reestablish information established five minutes ago, and then he never appears in the movie again.
Being at a morgue somehow gave them an epiphany, probably from the embalming vapors causing a delay in the necrosis of their already annihilated brains.
Their epiphany is that they should track any individuals buying syringes from hospitals in bulk. WHY ARNT THEY ALREADY TRACKING PEOPLE WHO BUY USED SYRINGES IN BULK????
PROTAGONISTS ESCAPE POLICE BY HIDING UNDER A HOBOS BLANKET
THE CUSP STEALS THE HEARTS OF HIS VICTIMS BECAUSE OF HIS DEEP SET PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES WHICH THEY EXPLORE IN THE FILM
THAT WAS AN OBVIOUS LIE TO SEE IF YOU WERE STILL PAYING ATTENTION, WHICH DOESNT EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS IN CAPS. He really steals hearts for the same reason that he kills people and then brings them back, which is because fuck you character development.
Amount of time spent in minds:10 minutes. Amount of time spent out of minds: two hours.
OH MY GOD IT WAS THE GUY WHO USED TO BE AN EMT AND WHO VANISHED FOR LENGTHY PERIODS OF TIME. THE SURPRISE.
This movie is a really good example of how if you are going to embezzle all of the movies funds on hookers and blow, actually investing some in the blow department can give you some semblance of creativity for your ruined movie after your done contracting syphilis.
...aaaaaaaaaand the lady who the protagonists were in a race against the clock to find, escaped on her own. She literally saved herself, rendering the entire last hour and a half pointless.
Goddamnit Cusp, your victim cant scream or say any last words when your channeling electricity through her bod-THE DIRECTOR DOESNT UNDERSTAND HOW ELECTRICITY WORKS
you know for a serial killer who lectures his victims about electricity, this serial killer sure knows shit all about electricity. When they cut the power to his house he cant seem to figure out whats going on, choosing instead to scream such useful things as "FUCKING LIGHTS, FUCK"
Plot twist: The Cusp is afraid of the dark. The guy who works exclusively at night and in areas with no light, who wears a face concealing hoodie at all times that bathes his face in eternal shadow? Scared of the dark. And by scared I mean he starts swearing a lot while behaving exactly the same.
oh my god he is tripping over all of the piles of tools he never uses because hes used exclusively suffocation and electricity, and they are WRECKING HIS SHIT. He is being BEAT UP by the TOOLS OF HIS TRADE that he NEVER USES because he cant function in THE ONLY CONDITIONS WHERE HE IS SUCCESSFUL because hes afraid of something THAT BY DEFINITION CANT HURT HIM. The Cusp everybody.
...why do we still have thirty minutes of movie?
Oh my god they found a rose at the crime scene. Oh my god the rose has Cloroform in it. The Cusp is actually Tuxedo Mask who is actually Bill Nye the Science Guy.
The word Cusp is ruined forever now.
Why is the protagonist being fooled by the the bad guy pretending to be a good guy when its been established that she knows who he is? Did...did the movie...forget...?
oh my god the movie forgot that she knew that.
This is like some kind of weird meta irony, right here. I know more then the protagonist despite both of us being directly presented with the exact same information at the exact same time. This is like a person telling me that the capital of France is Paris, then asking me what the capital of France is, and when I answer "Paris" them saying "yeah but help me figure out what the capital of France is"
Oh my fucking god the hostage escaped again on her own. She got captured, escaped, got captured again, AND ESCAPED AGAIN, WHILE THE PROTAGONIST STILL HASNT FIGURED OUT WHO THE KILLER IS EVEN THOUGH SHE SAW HIS FACE AND KNOWS HIS NAME AND WAS TOLD "DUNCAN IS THE KILLER".
WHY DID THE GOOD COP SEND THE KILLER TO LOOK AFTER THE PROTAGONIST WHEN HE KNEW HE WAS THE KILLER AND WAS IN THE POLICE STATION WITH HIM WITH ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO CONVICT HIM RIGHT THERE????
He was literally in the same room with the guy he knew was the killer, had enough evidence that merely pointing it out to any police officer would immediately result in an arrest, and could have instantly saved everyone because THE KILLER WAS NEXT TO HIM IN THE FUCKING POLICE STATION. And what does he do? "I want you to check on the protagonist, who is investigaging where the Murderer is keeping the hostage on the other side of town, because shes alone and could be in danger." SHE CANT BE IN DANGER BECAUSE THE PERSON WHOSE TRYING TO MURDER HER IS CURRENTLY BEING TOLD BY YOU TO CHECK ON HER TO MAKE SURE SHES ALRIGHT AND OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
The next time we cut to the good cop, he tells the police chief all of his evidence and the police chief believes him instantly. They then get a team of assault helicopters together to save the protagonist, who is about to be murdered on the other side of town because she is alone with the serial killer in his home base. I am literally speechless.
The Protagonist goes into the mind of killer to find out who he is, despite the fact that she literally already did that, and ASKS THE PERSON WHO SHE WAS DIRECTLY TOLD WAS THE REAL KILLER TO GUARD HER COMOTOSE BODY. Her face when the first thing she sees when she mind hacks into the mind of the killer is him literally sticking a syringe in her sleeping body's neck is priceless, as is her immediate deadpan statement of "Wut."
Which is amazing because thats exactly what I'd been saying for the last ten minutes. Its ALMOST LIKE SHE CAN READ MINDS.
She then goes "NOOOOOOOOOO" as the plasma photo filter itself begins to shake, symbolizing that even the cameraman has stopped giving a fuck. She reacts by going "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" AGAIN.
Oh my god, LITERALLY FIFTEEN MINUTES FROM THE END OF THE TWO HOUR LONG MOVIE they suddenly have her exploring a cool dreamscape in the mind of her serial killer and combating his tortured psyche. An infinite expanse of marble columns over a endless abyss as paramedic lights flash above, when suddenly steel bars expanding like how lightning moves across the sky emerge from the darkness to form ever shrinking boxes around the protagonist. I cant even. I dont. I...
If they could do this, and knew this was like how the other movie was, then WHY ISNT THE ENTIRE MOVIE LIKE THIS.
And just like that the awesomeness is gone. Its like for three minutes, the movie was actually good, purely to MOCK ME. Shes suddenly in an exact copy of the room she was in, only its in The Cusp's mind with even shittier photoshop filters then before, and instead of some psychological form of him or aspect of his subconcious, its literally just him in his mindscape, which looks like normal him in the room they were just in only with really shitty photoshop filters over it.
(inserted after the fact) Hold on to your dick because only bullshit follows.
The Cusp literally just said "And Knowing is Half the Battle." The first cop tells their SWAT forces to hold back so that he and Good Cop can take down The Cusp on their own. Cop one then HANDCUFFS GOOD COP TO THE RAILING BECAUSE HE DOESNT TRUST HIM, DESPITE THE FACT THAT GOOD COP IS ABOUT TO TRY TO SAVE BOTH HIS NIECE AND GIRLFRIEND. Meaning that instead of having a two on one advantage, it is currently fucking retarded.
The Cusp is now explaining that torturing the protagonist before the movie started gave him Psychic powers. He is not delusional, the movie just flat out doesnt give a fuck. So fuck it now he has psychic powers, despite the fact that that would mean he wouldnt have been able to get caught. He then directly states the philosophy and themes of the first movie, directly as in, he butchers it and ignores the symbolism and imagery. And hes literally wrong. The direct statements of the first movies themology are IN FACT ENTIRELY NOT CORRECT. THE WRITER MADE A SEQUEL TO A MOVIE HE DIDNT UNDERSTAND.
The Cusp has literally summoned the souls of his former victims to blame the protagonist for failing to save them...Movie ten minutes from the conclusion is a Hard Ass Fucking Time to introduce Necromancy.
He just destroyed the Protagonists memories of her 5th birthday by literally throwing them on the floor in front of her while shouting "GONE" then gives her the "U MAD" face as a single tear falls down her cheek.
The next thirty seconds is a man pretending to throw plasma photoshoped CGI tablets onto the ground while an actress slowly realizes that the cgi memory plates are actually a metaphor for her post Cell 2 career options and begins to cry for real.
Meanwhile in the real lifes, Jerk Cop is immediately regretting his decision to chain his backup to a wall when he enters the room to discover that somehow The Cusp can control his inner mental state and his body at the same time, which has been spending its time getting a fire ax and hiding behind the door.
Meanwhile in Mind city, The Protagonist realizes that she can fight back against The Cusp's dominance when she sees what I can only describe as "an inexplicable zombie ghost version of herself" coming in to provide deus ex moral support, by reminding her, quite helpfully that the bad guy is afraid of the dark. Which she cannot use to her advantage because shes inside his mind. Also she cant possibly know his weakness because The Cusp just explained that because of his new found powers, he has total control of her memory, a fact that he demonstrates by literally destroying all of her memories in aformentioned cgi plate smashing montage, meaning that like many things in this movie, this scene makes no sense.
Of course Zombie Ghost deus-ex machina is entirely unnecessary because Good cop got free and he turns off the fucking lights right in the middle of The Cusp's proclamation of his victory, who goes "And now, Ladies, its time for us to*BEOOOOOOOOOOP*...goddamnit" only with that last word four octaves higher then his normal speaking voice, despite also being filled with more spite then I have ever seen in a mannequin pretending to be a person.
...the fucking hostage lady was only pretending to be tied to the chair after The Cusp stopped her from escaping that second time. Not only was she only pretending, She took one of his shitty knives. He is then stabbed by his own hostage in the hand in the middle of a fight with a police officer.
His response is to...oh SHIT...is to backhand her with the hand with a knife through it, PIMPSLAPPING HER WITH HER OWN KNIFE.
you cant make shit this hype up.
...yeah turns out pimpslapping a person with a knife wedged in your hand hurts like fuck, and probably isnt a good idea in the middle of a fight with an extremely angry police officer who just saw you show his niece her place, while your mind is also under siege by a lady who, thanks to your being a mindplate tasmanian devil, ONLY HAS MEMORIES ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE HATES YOU.
Protagonist shows this hatred by fucking shit up by causing shitty CGI pink cloud explosions everywhere in his mindscape, somehow being even gayer then the mindghosts.
It is at this point that real Cusp decides its time to abscond, but decides to take the protagonists comatose body with him, because after a lifetime of bad decisions, why the fuck stop now. He somehow manages to hyjack a chopper while using both his hands to carry a lady because fuck it. the movies almost over.
Good cop just jumped onto a moving chopper. Godfuckingdamnit.
So The Cusp is just outside the city limits to make his grand escape when he realizes that there is a grownass man clinging to the side of his copter. He desperately tries to shake Jason Stathem off in the gripping conclusion to his new film THE FIST OF THE SOUL. Speaking of pilots, there is no mention of how Cusp can fly a goddamn plane, or where the original pilot went. But anyway.
And then the mind battle finally comes to a close when Protagonist lady uses the EXACT PRESSURE POINT THAT KENSHIRO USED ON THE COLONIAL TO TAKE THE CUSP'S SIGHT.
wait, fuck it turns out blinding a man driving a helicopter is actually other things besides a good idea.
Wow, The Cusp has managed to land a helicopter, grab a lady, and get a knife all while fuckass-blind. This is the first competent thing he has ever done as a serial killer.
Oh my god Cusp why did you fucking let go of your fucking hostage you dumb fuck. You dont need to see to know that "PLEASE ROBERT, SHOOT HIM, YOU PROMISED" doesnt mean "Let go of the hostage"
Seriously, Ten mental complex's, a chronic fear of Darkness, blindness brought about by his crimes brought against him, an active helicopter right next to him, Mind combat happening at that exact moment and his cause of death is "Bullet to brain because of butterfingers"
All of your Psychotic Psychic Mindbrain is Splattered all over the virgin snow.
And as he falls, the movie suddenly turns into Max Payne with angels singing as his body falls in slow motion.
In mindscape, Protagonist liberates All the Soul bitches from their really stupid psychic mind pimp by striking a yoga pose while a single chord from disco music plays, over just fast enough to convince me I imagined it until I rewound to here it again. We are treated to five cool seconds of The Cusp's cool mind world falling appart as he dies to once again show that the creators could in fact have made a good movie, but chose not to for reasons that cannot be justified or forgiven, regardless of what they are.
Rest in Peace, Serial Killer with worst Name Coolness to Competency ratio of all time, The Cusp
I am only now just realizing how fucking retarded a serial killer who brings his victims back to life is.
So anyway we are treated to thirty seconds of the cop trying really hard to pretend to have an emotion over the apparent death of the protagonist, while I hold my breath in hope that her actress banged her head in the fake fall and shes dead for real.
The Credits roll. They then flash to GORGEOUS SYMBOLIC WIDE SHOTS THAT WERE ENTIRELY ABSENT IN THE FILM FOR NO REASON, DESPITE THE USE OF SUCH SHOTS BEING THE DEFINING CINEMETOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST MOVIE. THEY ARE LITERALLY SPENDING THE FINAL MOMENTS OF THE MOVIE SHOWING HOW BAD THEY FUCKED UP. ALSO PART OF THE ENDING IS A LEGITIMATELY CATCHY AND INTERESTING SONG, WHICH WAS ANOTHER THING ABSENT IN THE MOVIE.
I quietly wonder if they secretly snuck in the credits from a better movie.
Lastly, I smile as I realize that 89,000 people watched part one on youtube, while only 13,000 people watched part 2, meaning that within the first 15 minutes, 7/8ths of watchers lost all hope and fled for their lives.
at the end of the credits, there is a ten second video for everyone loyal enough to stay for the full credits
Its the director driving the fucking Navy Blue Acura Legend.