Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
"One Missed Call" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 01/29/2012
A vengeful spirit transfers from mobile phone to mobile phone, leaving a message featuring the last words of the owner just before they are horribly killed. This film is everything that's wrong with the horror genre these days. It's the kind of film that was probably created in a "brainstorming session" by men who work in marketing called Brad and Todd, who wear red braces, play racquetball together and drink wheatgrass smoothies. They thought of the name of the movie first and then tried to fit a script around it. They had an "ideas board" upon which they "bounced ideas around" and had subheadings like "What teenagers like" with "cell phones", "hotties", "scares" and "gruesome deaths" written underneath (although not TOO gruesome-we've got to keep that 15 certificate to maximise ticket …
Rating of
2/4
One Missed Call should be One Missed Movie
goodfellamike - wrote on 10/26/2008
I believe there is an unwritten rule in Hollywood, that when an original idea for a horror film is thought-up, it is immediately quashed by the brass and replaced with another Japanese remake thought. This must be the reason we have seen nothing new or creative since the days of George A. Romero and Stuart Gordon, but instead are subjected to Americanized rehashings of Ringu, The Grudge, (the forthcoming The Eye) and the latest, One Missed Call, Takashe Miike’s child-ghost screamie about phone calls from the dead.
Young student Beth (Shannyn Sossamon) has found herself amidst an eerie sequence of events: she is a first-hand witness to the deaths of most of her friends, is always present for their last-minute confessions and is being haunted by childhood memories of her own abuse. …
Rating of
1/4
I Expected Nothing, I Got Less Than Nothing
Franz Patrick - wrote on 08/21/2008
This was really hard to sit through because nothing made sense. I rarely say that about movies but this one felt like it was filmed for three days. I felt like the filmmakers didn’t even try to make a good movie. The visual effects were corny, the thrills were not present, and the characters were thick. The film immediately jumped to the scares, which was not an effective move because the audiences were not yet invested in the characters. In order words, it was hard to care. I usually like Shannyn Sossamon but even she couldn’t carry this picture. I keep picking my brain to come up with one good thing about the movie but I can’t recall one. I was bored from beginning to end; half-way through, I wanted to do something else (and I did while the movie was on). I just wish that …
Rating of
N/A
akup - wrote on 07/25/2008
Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) witnesses the shocking deaths of her two best friends; is there a link connecting the deaths, yes; it begins with an unfamiliar ring tone, that leads to an inconceivable voicemail from the future! After listening to the message Beth goes to the police, needless to say, the police think Beth is crazy, except Detective Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) whose own sister was killed in a freak accident that bears an odd similarity to the death of Beth’s friends. Together they try to discover who or what is behind these bizarre deaths; when Beth hears the now all too familiar ring tone emanate from her phone she becomes frantic to learn the truth that could save her own life.
I liked this movie…it’s spooky, thrilling and suspenseful without all the gore.
Rating of
0.5/4
Review - One Missed Call (2008)
Delorted - wrote on 01/08/2008
If you get a call from a friend asking you if you want to go see “One Missed Call,” you’re probably in the same situation as the people in the movie. The story, based on the Japanese movie “Chakushin Ari,” revolves around Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon), a girl whose friends are all being killed off one by one after receiving messages on their cell phones from the moment they die. You can tell just from the premise that it was well worth remaking.
If you’ve ever seen a J-horror film in your life then you’ve seen this. It’s basically “The Ring” with dumber people and less of a story. There’s not one scare that you can look at and not say “they did that in so-and-so.” There’s not one character you can look at and say “I hope they don’t die next.” …
