More trashy B-movie than the dark thriller it was purported to be, Cellular brrrings from the same minds behind last year's Phone Booth, here simply inverting that movie's telecommunications-based set-up.
Kim Basinger's well-to-do teacher is kidnapped by dirty cops led by an LA-via-Peckham Statham, keen to avenge themselves on her husband - he being witness to their gangland executions. Managing to reconstruct a smashed phone, she connects with Chris Evans' mobile, who then races against time to save the day, while goofy cop William H Macy investigates what's going on.
A surfeit of unintentional laughs undermines any tension, with Basinger reduced to mere acting-via-quivering-lips, but, taken as an almost-parody, this is enjoyable, moving at a brisk pace and delivering bursts of excitement, with Evans in particular an engaging presence and Macy's oddball antics always worthwhile.