One Missed Call Reviews
What can i say... ITS... Just a Bad movie i cant even call IT a Horror movie i thought it MIGHT have Just been me but after looking at the reviews and frying my brain by for some reason watching IT again well ITS Just Bad🤣
Devoid of any real scares or atmosphere, & poorly written with some legendarily bad acting, this is easily the worst American remake of a J-horror film. Ever.
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The best movie in the world
I enjoyed this movie. I know some prob don't like it but I thought it was fairly well thought out and the actors were ok.
Look! There's a difference between a horror movie and a horrible movie.This is one of those movies with great concepts but fail to execute these concepts perfectly and understandable.
absolutely fantastic. inspiring characters, thrilling story, and geniusly written.
If "One Missed Call" leaves the audience with anything—which it is unlikely to do—it's that the popularity of the J-horror-remake genre doesn't mean its movies will be good, or even coherent. This film strives for mediocrity but fails to achieve even this goal of predictable B-level couch fare. Beth Raymond (an awful Shannyn Sossamon), after the gruesome, mysterious deaths of two of her friends, joins grieving detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) to uncover the evil spirit lurking in mysterious voicemails people receive of their own deaths. But any slivers of hope for this film are shredded as plotlines jump together with little rationality and horrible acting drags this movie into the abyss. Sossamon has a blank face for nearly the entire movie, and when she does try to act scared, she ends up a melodramatic mess. Not to mention the characters are as one-dimensional and have as little common sense as to be expected from a disastrous horror movie like this, with unrealistic emotional responses—or the lack thereof—and climbing into dark tunnels for the fun of it. Behind the film-school-reject-quality acting and laughable plot, you'd still find nothing but amateurish effects (unfinished 3D bugs and body heat steam, for example), camerawork too distant to be personable but too nosy for any hope of technical proficiency, and cinematography more cliché than the plot—if that's possible. The only people that could ever enjoy this movie are those who have never watched a horror film—or any movie—before, or those who enjoy truly trashy terror—and even these "target demographics" will likely be disappointed. If Eric Valette's shockingly dumb horror movie dials you, don't bother—you'll be glad you didn't pick up this "Call."
No plot at all. But if you're looking for a good laugh. You will not find that either.
Not really a 5 star but the rating should come up because it is a watchable horror.
Everyone is allowed their own opinion, but to rate this movie any more then 3 stars is completely tone deaf. What the original J-Horror movie shined in, the remake just dropped the ball on; the kills were just boring & lacking in the creepiness & off putting feeling the original did so well. I did really enjoy the fact that the ringtone is equally as creepy as the one before. & I did appreciate that the story was interesting although slightly different from the original. The movie does have some redeeming qualities if you watch it with no knowledge of the original J-Horror. But if you have watched the J-Horror then you may find this one a bit on the disappointing side.
I guess I didn't hate it as much as everyone else.
Ass. Just plain ass.
very cool movie. Special effects were out of this world. The ending just blew my mind, surely worth the wait
Good movie. I hear a lot of bad things about this movie, but I don't understand why. I thought it was a pretty good movie. Any one would be scared if this happened to them.
The first movie that made me contemplate murder…of everyone who made this waste of data, brain cells, and money.
Easily one of the worst remakes in history, "One Missed Call" is a failure under every aspect, and Sossamon's performance is so pathetically bad that ends up being almost fascinating.
I'm a little surprised this movie was criticied to the extent that it was. That being said, I'm not going to say it was a good movie or anything, but I have TOTALLY seen worse. The acting wasn't that bad- it obviously wasn't even close to oscar-winning standards of course, but for the movie I think it was convincing enough. In terms of scare factor, it wasn't that scary. There aren't really any horrifying images either. Perhaps only in one scene that comes to mind. The part that was most disappointing are things in the storyline that just don't work for me: 1. The origin of this "phone curse". So we see that this originated when Ellie was locked in her room after getting caught physically harming her younger sister, Laurel. Ellie begins to suffer an asthma attack, who then desperately bangs on the door for help, then tries to dial her mother's number in her phone as she dies, thus beginning the phone curse, with Ellie's mother as the first victim. Not to look at it too logically, but when Ellie was first caught by her mother, hurting Laurel, I'm sure what (at least partly) brought on her asthma attack was the stress of getting caught and what this might mean for her. Obviously she has psychological issues, but perhaps she was scared her mother wouldn't love her anymore? Or she'd get sent away? Then her asthma attack begins, and she's panicking as she knows she needs medical help. She's banging on the door for her Mum to help, and tries to call her- again, for medical help, as she is in a medical emergency. So why on Earth would she even be thinking about starting some kind of "killer phone curse" when she's wheezing for breath and trying to get help? When you're on your last dying breath, you're panicking, and gasping for air, not planning out a whole (not to mention, supernatural) revenge. How a child would even think of that is beyond me- Ellie was pretty young. She had her issues, but she was just a kid after all, what gave her the ability to create such a curse? 2. After the cop is killed near the end of the film, we see an unfriendly spirit of Ellie approaching Beth (likely to kill her). We then see the saviour-looking spirit of Ellie's mother grab spirit-Ellie and pull her away from Beth, where we also see light (presented as the "phone curse") get sucked out of the dead cop's phone (which at this point would normally have already dialled the next victim) presumably putting an end to Ellie's cellular rampage. Yet once the spirit commotion is over, the late cop's phone dials the next victim's phone number. Why on Earth would you show a triumphant spirit, triumphantly end the curse, to only seconds later, just show the curse still active. Director just booked in a cheap ending. Nevertheless, this movie still earns 3 stars as the premise was intriguing, and still fairly entertaining to watch despite the story problems. As far as horror movies go, there really is much worse than this.