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The Alchemist is a simple, enjoyable, elemental morality tale, easily understandable for those (few, I guess) people who understand humanity and what we do to ourselves and our own souls in the name of "justice." I'm surprised and saddened that so many people seem to have missed the point of the film. It's worth seeing.

This is indeed the best TV show ever made. Nothing has even come close to replacing it. This show was part of my childhood, and from it I learned that the universe truly is a place of "awe and wonder." This show taught me that not everything is as it seems on the surface -- to dig deep down, to ask the difficult questions of myself and about humanity in general. I wish someone would put this "oldie" series out on DVDs. I'd buy the whole lot.

I found watching The Cell to be a passable way to spend two hours, but there was nothing remarkable about the cliched plot, the two-dimensional characters, or the frankly dull special effects.

This is a movie one could watch perhaps once, if one is bored and has nothing else to do. Money that could have been used to hire an actual writer was wasted upon special effects that were obviously intended to be awesome and mind-blowing but were tired and passe long before they were even a gleam in the director's eye. It was next to impossible to bond with any of the characters because of the lack of depth and meaningful character interaction.

The only thing remarkable about this film is that it takes a potentially interesting, if not new, idea and drags it down to dullness.