The only thing interesting about this run of the mill "thriller" with a stupid and predictable "twist" ending is the filmmakers' recognition that having the protagonist possess a working cell phone would eliminate the entire plot. So they have him break it very early on. That way he has to go to all these places rather than just call up the people he's going to see. I guess that's acceptable but it seems kinda cheap.
And besides, it turns the whole film into a cautionary tale about the bad things that can happen if you lose your cell phone. Which brings up the point that most movies more than ten years old have plots that would have been dramatically simplified if the protagonist had the use of a wireless phone. (As a side note, it makes me wonder if the book this film is based on was published before cell phones became so commonplace.) That getting the cell phone out of the equation thing has become very very popular over the last few years. And I, for one, am looking forward to the day when cell phones are incorporated into the plot in an effective way rather than done away with in increasingly silly ways.
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