Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: Caroline Aaron, Brenda Ballard, Kim Basinger, Will Beinbrinck, Jessica Biel
Genre: Action & Adventure
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment   Release date: 2004   Rated: PG-13
Language (Country): English, ( USA )
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Comments: If the signal dies so does she.


Summary: Were it not for cell phones, I would not have had to sit through this Nokia advertisement hoping the reception would clear up.



While the movie fared pretty well as a comedy, I somehow don't think that that was the intention, despite the caricatured characters and laughable dialogue.



Kim Basinger plays Jessica Martin, a housewife with a realtor husband, a son named Ricky (?), and a Hispanic housekeeper; whose regular daily schedule gets terribly interrupted when bad guys burst into her home, kidnap her, and lock her in a room which conveniently has a telephone. Sure, they theatrically bust that archaic instrument to smithereens with a sledgehammer, but if they had simply removed it from the jack we would not have had much of a movie.



What follows is a comedy of errors, ridiculous situations, obnoxious people, and lots of deep cell phone action.



An assortment of B actors doing what B actors do, in a movie that rates three bars as a weak comedy, but registers absolutely no signal as a drama.



Amanda Richards, April 20, 2005