What was the last movie you saw...? Part IV

[Charger]

CELL

After a strange signal from people's cell phones turn them into blood thirsty fiends a small group of survivors is trying to safely travel across New England.

John Cusack and Samuel L Jackson lead the Stephen King adaptation by the man himself.

This takes a bit of a new twist on the zombie-theme and adds something of a supernatural element, although the source of the signal is never revealed or explained.

The movie relies heavily on it's two leads but Isabelle Fuhrman's character is the one that I took most notice of. There's a good mixture of action and suspense and many King's trademarks are present.
This does however share maybe bit too many similarites to The Stand, but that's not a deal breaker. The movie only runs about 95 minutes which on one side is good but it does mean that occationally the story moves along bit too fast.

A rather good King adaptation, which frankly though would have benefitted from bit more gore and from a better ending...this one fell bit flat to be honest.


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[Typhon]

Factotum (2005)

A wannabe writer (Matt Dillon) with a drinking problem, wanders around L.A.  He loses job after job and meets a few women (Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei), also with drinking problems.

One might think a story like this wouldn't be very interesting, yet I couldn't stop watching.  Little bits of unintended humor, here and there, were a big help.  8/10