The Call (2013)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 90
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 55
The Call builds plenty of suspense before taking a problematic turn in the third act.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 13
The Call builds plenty of suspense before taking a problematic turn in the third act.
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When veteran 911 operator, Jordan (Halle Berry), takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life. (c) Sony
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Crude as it is, The Call milks its jump scares and don't-go-down-to-the-basement tension for all they're worth. See it with a full house, if you absolutely must see it at all.
Let's call The Call what it is: high quality trash that both diminishes and is redeemed by all the talents who have deigned to bring it to life.
If you're going to watch a movie in which two people talk on the phone for most of the film, it's not the worst thing in the world for one of the folks involved to have the face of Storm from the X-Men.
Top CriticThis is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.
It's a lot better than you might expect a movie like this to be.
"The Call" consciously decides to slowly drown itself in the tub.
A 911 flick that's actually 341--3 movies 4 the price of a bad 1. The psychological thriller rushes; the psycho-horror scrapes the bottom of the barrel of titillation; the quick ending burner-phones in any remaining character development and plausibility.
A high-concept thriller that certainly has the potential to self-destruct... But genre specialist Brad Anderson gives it a taut, low-budget energy that keeps it pulsing throughout its entire running time.
Put it this way: now educated and abused, good girl Casey no longer has a problem with bad language.
Ansioso para se mostrar chocante e audacioso, o desfecho soa apenas como um adolescente tentando impressionar os amigos ao agir como um babaca.
Even though the finish of the film is beyond the reach of believability, somehow it didn't spoil the suspense that preceded it.
... the only thing worse than pulling the final punch... would have been showing the script cover to 'The Call 2: Aftercall' after the credits.
Works on the gut, but this thriller is unbelievable
Everyone watching "The Call" will realize just how implausible its plot is...But even so, this thriller is thoroughly gripping.
Shocking, I know, to think the writer of Thir13en Ghosts and Exit Wounds may not have been up to the task of crafting a fully realized narrative.
Claustrophobes beware of The Call, Brad Anderson's emotionally rending thriller that transpires almost entirely on the telephone.
If the last act of the film had been as good as the first act, this would be a good film, but it sure takes a wrong turn at the end.
...a tension-packed, rewarding film with fine performances by Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund, and Halle Berry.
There's no one moment where The Call breaks; more like a five minute span where it goes from everything mostly working to everything mostly not.
Don't call me...don't even text. Just let me stay in the trunk of a car where this movie can't hurt me anymore.
Two-thirds terrific and one-third routine.
Taut, exciting thriller.
The movie is going great until it hangs it all up about 3/4ths of the way through.
Breslin makes the leap from Little Miss Goofball to scream teen seamlessly, but there isn't much else in this once-promising director's cell-out to make it worth your time to take this call.
A rather unsavory experience overall made even less pleasant by its ultimate pandering to the basest of its audience's entertainment tastes.
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| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| 39%? Figures! | 23 days ago | 0 |
| another bland halle berry film. | 24 days ago | 1 |
| A lot of us have already seen this :) | 42 days ago | 17 |
| I am actually surprised | 52 days ago | 2 |
| Manohla Dargis | 54 days ago | 0 |
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