spoiler spoilers the cell or ( 2000 ) ( out of four ) do you believe there be a part of yourself and deep inside in your mind and with thing you do not want other people to see . during a session when i be inside and i get to see those thing . catherine deaneand so do we . one of the most visually stimulate film of the year and the cell be a love or hate movie either you love it or you hate it . i can understand the reason some people dislike this production . with a story that combine disturb serial killer with mind probing and the cell be too much for some viewer while others will not understand the complex action and emotion of the film . i think it one of the year most engrossing film . make his feature film screenwriting debut and mark protosevich create an imaginative world of rich and colorful image and provocative character . the filmmaker take advantage of every shot . protosevich conceive idea for the cell in 1993 when he decide to combine two of his major interest and mind probing and serial killer . he be reportedly influence by such director a wes craven and george romero and david cronenberg . they would probably be proud of such an imagination . the film combine two major narrative and one about scientific exploration of the human mind and and the other about a psychopath who murder young woman for his own sexual pleasure . catherine deane ( jennifer lopez ) and a child therapist and be part of a neurological study at the campbell center and a research clinic . because of her empathetic personality and scientist choose deane to enter the mind of a catatonic preteen in hope to revive his brain into wake . a sick and demented serial killer roam the street . within an abandoned rural farmhouse and stargher ( vincent donofrio ) lock innocent female victim in a large glass cell where he then drown them and performs sadistic sexual ritual with their body . the killer escape from the fbi every time they draw near and until now . a violent seizure render him comatose . the fbi capture his forever unconscious body . unfortunately and he already prepare the cell with his late victim . in forty hour and the cell will fill with water and and stargher be the only man who know the location of his victim . the fbi take this situation to campbell center and where catherine enter the mind of stargher and hop to discover the location of his late victim before the cell fill with water and send the woman to a watery grave . the science fiction portion of the story rely on both real science and theoretical fiction in the creation of the neurological cartography and synaptic transfer system . the premise take a long time to develop and but it be worth the wait . it be far fetched and but that doesn not matter . the film make u believe . even if you do not suspend disbelief and however and the visual enticement provide an engage setting to enjoy . accord to the film production note and mark protosevich be thrill to work with the director and name tarsem and because they both think visually . tarsem singh be know for his attention to detail and stun art direction and and highly developed ability to tell a story . when i write the cell and explain protosevich and i surround myself with postcard or color copy of painter painting or photograph while i be work . so i be think visually and and tarsem be a highly visual director . tarsem have a similar frame of visual reference which make for a very smooth collaboration . vincent donofrio provide the film with a backbone and and no actor could have accomplish his character any good . he deliver a mysterious and disturbing and and engage performance . i think that my character be and in a way and trap in himself and donofrio ponders . he also research the psychology of serial killer to help get him beneath the surface of the character . his in depth performance preparation pay off beautifully . while the actor and writer and and director do wonder with their material and the real honor go to the film behind the scene talent . the director of photography paul laufer and production designer tom foden and costume designer april napier and special effect coordinator clay pinney and and visual effect supervisor kevin tod haug . they bring the world of the cell to life . it be an extraordinary world worthy of several viewing . some movie you watch and others you experience . the cell fall into the late category .