The Call (2013)
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 56
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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Movie Info
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
Cast
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Halle Berry
Jordan Turner -
Abigail Breslin
Casey Welson -
Morris Chestnut
Officer Paul Phillips -
Michael Eklund
Michael Foster -
Michael Imperioli
Alan Denado -
Ella Rae Peck
Autumn -
Roma Maffia
Maddy -
David Otunga
Officer Jake Devans -
Justina Machado
Rachel -
Jose Zuniga
Marco -
Evie Louise Thompson
Leah Templeton -
Denise Dowse
Flora -
Jenna Lamia
Brooke -
Ross Gallo
Josh -
Tara Platt
Female Trainee -
Sammy Busby
Officer -
Michael Linstroth
Officer #1 -
Lisa Grady
Forensics Agent -
Rakefet Abergel
Trainee #1 -
Jay Potter
Bryan -
Teresea Jelks-Kirkley
Operator #1 -
Yolanda Arroyo
Operator #2 -
Frankie Louis Mulcahy
Young Operator in Quiet... -
Steven Williams
Terrence -
Tommy Rosales Jr.
Jose -
Alisa Hensley
Soccer Mom
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (56)
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 straight-forward, race-against-time thriller...In an alternate universe, one imagines a disciple of Hitchcock making this film in real time and without any violence.
A tense psychological chiller that ratchets up the tension before collapsing with a predictable finale.
Hi, I'd like to order an abduction thriller set around the 911 emergency call centre in Los Angeles. Sure, would you like a psycho with that? Ah yes, and while we're at it can I upsize to the hero being ...er, a heroine ... and black. Done
Tense and gripping nail-biter that involves us in the moment-by-moment revelations of a terrifying abduction case
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.
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Discussion Forum
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| 39%? Figures! | 33 days ago | 0 |
| another bland halle berry film. | 33 days ago | 1 |
| A lot of us have already seen this :) | 51 days ago | 17 |
| I am actually surprised | 2 months ago | 2 |
| Manohla Dargis | 2 months ago | 0 |
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