subject: Cell Phones And Their Movies [print this page] It's not a bad movie, to be sure; the case is engaging enough considering the material they have to work with, which is your basic action-spy-thriller. And it all starts off intriguing enough, opening with a woman mysteriously reading instructions in her mobile handset, to the point of descending into the Washington, D.C. metro's tracks, where she meets her end - only to have our protagonist mysteriously receive the same mysterious phone in the mail during the next scene, a phone which, it turns out, provides the most prodigious of instructions concerning apparently random events, from airline crashes to jackpots. It's an exciting premise, but ninety minutes of screentime almost assures that any treatment can only be overly facile.
