The Cell 2 - La soglia del terrore

The FBI Agent Maya (Tessie Santiago) has developed the ability of psychically connect with other people after being murdered six times and brought back to live by the sadistic serial-killer Cusp. Now she is tracking down the infamous criminal through his mind using a device to protect herself but after an unsuccessful manhunt, she quits the FBI. One year later, when the niece of Sheriff Harris (Chris Bruno) is abducted by Cusp, Maya's former chief Kassel (Michael Flynn) summons her back to the investigation. Maya teams up with Harris trying to save his niece Penelope (Amee Walden), but her time is short and she must risk her own safety to help the young woman.

"The Cell 2" uses the idea of the average "The Cell" combined to these sadistic movies of torture like "Saw" franchise, but the result is weaker than the foregoing films. First, the screenplay is terrible, with many clichés and holes and awful characters. The restricted budget associated to the reasonable acting make this direct to DVD movie forgettable and a waste of time. My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "A Cela 2" ("The Cell 2")

Im surprised im not seeing this come out as a scifi channel movie, but after going thru the reviews from danlieberman7, cindystrngs, mooreabby70, lisabrnstn782, BillyLopezArt, johnlevitt85, mizzyplum, mer, AllenJones66. Besides the fact theve never reviewed anything before, there was a trait of talking bad about the original, or somehow as a good horror movie point that some kid from high school musical is in the 2nd. I've watched the trailer, and im watched parts from the movie, it was a bad knockoff that defiantly was no where close to the kind or quality of the 1st. The story was horrible, the flashlights on the main chicks head to use for the dream sequences. I wonder if Uwe Boll had anything to do with the production of this movie.

This movie is awful. If you saw The Cell and were thinking 'Wow AWESOME, gimme more of this', then please don't go see this movie.

In the 'first' movie (I'm starting to think that the relation between the two is nothing more than the name and the first two shots of the second one) the dream scape was immersing, creative and beautiful, sometimes in a creepy way. In The Cell 2, the dream scape is just a cheap effect, a few squiggly lines at the edges of the screen. Story-wise, it lacks any continuity. Instead of having to be suspended in the air, hooked up to some extreme high tech system in weird suites, the main character is half awake while in the back of a plane, holding a personal item of someone involved. Somehow, they took that awesome dreamsurfing equipment and made it some bluetooth dongle stuck to her head. Furthermore, The shots look cheap, as do the sets. The tactics used by the police or swat are not remotely realistic, and quite frankly, make them look like a fart of the antagonist could blow them away. Now all of this would not be ultimate game-breaking stuff, but i just saw The Cell 1 only two hours ago and was hoping for some more psychedelic-dreamy-crime-horror-thriller-sexy-chicks(lopez) movie, but instead, I got ' a shot at the big-time '

Not every director has a huge budget, and there's nothing wrong with that, but somehow this director acquired a ' The Cell ' license and then ran out of money. Now there will never be a The Cell 3. Thx Tim Iacofano.

I loved the first one... it was awesome. if you expect anything like the first one you'll be disappointed. just take my word for it and don't waste your time... this is barely a movie. there is no acting, no logical story, no visual effects and the script was probably written in an hour... I cannot even call it a B movie, C or D movie at best... plain waste of money and time... You will figure out everything after the first 4 minutes. If this movie is your choice for a rental, rent another one with it, or your movie night will be ruined. Now I am just writing to complete 10 lines of text, because there is nothing else to write about this movie, it just sucks. and there you go, 10 lines...

Can a movie be not good but still fun to watch? The Cell 2 is the perfect zone out movie to be honest, not a great recommendation, but it also had some so bad it was good scenes (somebody mention the ax in the back scene already, watch for it--it propels the entire thing into cult movie status.) Who is Frank Whalley, I had never heard of him, but then I looked up his page and he has a huge resume - this was the guy who was in "The Freshman"? No friggin' way, time was not kind to him but he did a great job in this movie. I was a little baffled by most of the actors in this, especially the lead actress Tessie Santiago who seems to be in a trance most of the time, is it because she's under the spell of The Cusp killer? I think that was the direction but it just wound up making her dull. Cheesy graphics, and an improbable but exciting helicopter crash scene at the end makes this a pretty hilarious movie, and yes, I mean in a good way, even if they didn't mean it.