There is just enough tension and just enough suspense to keep you invested. Unfortunately the eye-rolling ending almost undoes everything the film does right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Perfectly ridiculously enjoyable

| Jul 2, 2021

An absorbing premise that goes to great efforts to exaggerate the suspense; unfortunately, the storytellers run out of ideas approximately three-quarters into the film.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 3, 2020

The film's final 30 minutes are ridiculous.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

Unfortunately, The Call quickly veers off-road to four-wheel in the Land of Stupid Choices, that place in horror usually littered with the bodies of promiscuous co-eds.

| Jul 30, 2019

There is a particular twist and/or spoiler alert that cannot be revealed but let's just say that it still cannot compensate for much of The Call's stillborn material that plays like an annoying cellphone ringtone.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 18, 2018

This film is a whole lot scarier than you think it's going to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2017

It's difficult to hold an audience pretty much alone for 70 minutes but [Halle Berry] does a much better job than the screenplay deserves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2016

A surprisingly proficient thriller - even more proficient for the viewer who bails before the final scene.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2016

A simple but tense thriller told from the perspective of kidnap victim and 911-responder.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2015

This is a cleverly made, smartly written, totally satisfying armrest-gripper.

| Jan 6, 2014

It seems at odds with itself thanks to a generous helping of tropes from two distinctly different genres: fast-paced action thriller and creepy serial killer horror.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2013

Rides completely off the rails by the finale, and the film seems to completely embrace its stupidity...

| Nov 18, 2013

Halle Berry delivers an emphatic reminder of her star status in this tightly-plotted low-budget thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2013

Relentlessly suspenseful, this lean thriller has an emotional subtext that makes it almost unbearably involving.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 27, 2013

The Call delivers taut no-frills thrills for two-thirds of its brisk, hour-and-half running time. But the plot falls apart spectacularly as soon as Halle leaves the 911 control room and the ludicrous finale will leave you groaning.

| Sep 22, 2013

A film that was just highly improbable for 75 minutes loses its mind thereafter and invites you to do the same.

| Sep 20, 2013

While plausibility is often stretched to the limit, the sense of threat will keep you on the edge of your seat, even during a ridiculously gratuitous denouement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2013

The familiar serial-killer flick gets a welcome shakeup, upending the woman-as-victim clich and offering a bracing new perspective on an oft-told tale.

| Sep 20, 2013

The Call is the kind of vaguely smart, extremely gory gloop you should watch on 온라인카지노추천, preferably when you're tucked up in bed with a delirium-inducing fever. That way, you won't notice when the script goes bonkers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2013