The Call Reviews
We Got This Covered
Halle Berry handles The Call with professionalism, passion, and a trooper's dedication to keeping a faltering script afloat.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Examiner.com
Whatever the intent was, what we get is one of the most hilarious and unbelievable thrillers made in the last few years.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Examiner.com
The Call is mostly just another predictable and generic thriller with its only unique moments resting in a certain scalp sniffing sequence.
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| Original Score: 3/10
Schmoes Know
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5
Slant Magazine
Brad Anderson's film is defined by an often frustrating combination of cleverness and stupidity.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
American Profile
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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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticA sputtering, so-so B thriller with a neat hook but very little personality.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Christianity Today
"It all looks the same," Casey laments-which might, unfortunately, be taken as meta-commentary on the boilerplate movie she finds herself in.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The shoddy attention to character, plausibility, and detail is particularly surprising coming from Anderson, a director of smart indie thrillers like The Machinist, Session 9 and Transsiberian.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Bullz-Eye.com
Another rote, run-of-the-mill thriller better suited for VOD than the big screen.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Movie Nation
It damn well works. Until Halle Berry hangs up.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
There's little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish Law and Order rerun.
Times-Picayune
It's a surprisingly effective and suspenseful thriller -- up until it's idiotic ending, when the characters and the audience are betrayed all at once.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Entertainment Spectrum
A film that has great potential turns into a disaster.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flixist.com
Cut to black. No. Really. There's a 3 second cut to black that can be interpreted as nothing else than a warning to not go on from here.
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| Original Score: 53/100
"The Call" consciously decides to slowly drown itself in the tub.
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| Original Score: D+
Blu-ray.com
Goes from passably engaging to insulting in a hurry, finding Anderson unable to make the sloppily cut puzzle pieces fit, relying on moldy trends in horror cinema to maintain pressure.
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| Original Score: C
