I wonder how much in hindsight, Chris Evans should be embarrassed by this movie?
I thought about this after listening to the How Did this Get Made podcast on Cellular:
https://screenrant.com/the-avengers-humiliating-bad-roles-before-famous/
Cellular stars Kim Basinger as a high-school biology teacher who is held hostage in her home by dirty LAPD cops who need to recover evidence of their misdeeds.
She manages to hotwire a broken phone in her attic and reach a random cell number belonging to frat boy Ryan, played by Chris Evans, who decides to help the desperate woman on the line.
What follows can only be described as “Stupid Hitchcock”: it is a suspense/thriller movie revolving around one object or rule that generates suspense. However, that object and rule are very stupid-- Ryan cannot let his phone run out of battery, because then he would lose all contact with Kim Basinger and she has no way of reaching him again if he does.
This leads to Ryan robbing a phone store at gunpoint for a charger, avoiding a tunnel because he would lose reception, etc. It’s goofy fun, but it’s an incredibly silly role for Chris Evans, though he tries his best to lend gravitas and suspense.
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