One Missed Call
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Movie Reviews of One Missed Call
Movie Review: Please stop w/ the Japanese remakes...YAWN!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I really had positive hopes for the film when I heard about it during the summer of its release. I saw it with a group of friends (party of 13, including my dog) and we all were captivated in the 1st three minutes. However, HOWEVER, after that it just got worse and worse. I wanted to cry that I was wasting my life watching this ugly selection of pictures flicker across a piece of glass, that i refer to as my TV. As a matter of fact, one of my friends was my cousin from the hearts of Africa, here in America for just one, short day, and guess WHAT??? We wasted it! Watching THIS piece of $#&#&!!!!!! Someone tell me whose idea was it to make this piece of...well i already used the word...so i won't again...but still...THAT SHOWS YOU THE GIST OF IT!! Anyway, next time you want a thrilling adventurous movie to scare you, check out Horton Hears A Who (now that gave me nightmares) or listen to a Michael Jackson CD (that's very scary!). Or just for fun, watch Dark Knight or listen to a Leona Lewis CD! <3 Mrs. PriestlyMovie Review: Remember the "Ring"?
Summary: 1 Stars
And the "Grudge" and probably every other pseudo Japanese horror film in which something is cursed by a horrible death and nine million people who had nothing to do with it die? Yep, this is the same story, except instead of a video tape or house the cursed object is (get ready, now): a cell phone. Dear God, aren't we done with this nonsense? And how did they get a decent actor like Edward Burns into this mess? Were they holding his first born hostage? I must ask (and I welcome responses): does every film in this genre use the same special effects team, because I can't tell the difference between the "Ring" girl, the "Grudge" mother, and the villian in this? Are we, who have grown up on Freddie and Jason and Pinhead ready supposed to shake in terror at pale skin, creepy watery eyes, and unkempt hair? Is this really all Hollywood had to offer us? Trust me, if you've seen the "Ring" and the "Grudge" you've already seen this done with better acting and better storylines. This is one to skip.Movie Review: Godawful
Summary: 1 Stars
One Missed Call, yet another PG-13 take on the Japanese horror genre, is a godawful mess from beginning to end. A group of young people start getting mysterious messages on their cell phones, which contain recordings of their own future deaths. Sadly, One Missed Call does little with the premise, other than throw one predictable scare at you one right after the other. The script is terrible with some hideous moments of dialogue, and the film as a whole lacks any kind of real guts and feels incredibly restrained in it's violence, and thus has no teeth to speak of. The acting, if one were to call it that, is just as bad. Not to mention, one has to wonder just what Edward Burns did to get cast in garbage like this. If starring in A Sound of Thunder was bad enough, Burns heads a cast here that includes Shannon Sossamon, Meagan Good, Azura Skye, and Ray Wise; and he manages to out do them all. Granted though, it isn't by much. Avoid like the plague.Movie Review: One movie you should "miss"
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a J-horror remake film that falls into the whole cliche of J-horror film remakes. This film could've possibly been OK, but I'm one of the many people who don't like this movie. "One Missed Call" is cliche in basically every way. It was basically as bad as "Pulse". I also hate that line where that girl says something like "You get a phone call, you hear your death, and then you die". It's trying to be creepy when it's horribly acted. There are some creepy points in this film, like that weird creature and those people that have screaming faces as eyes, but that's about it. You could possibly get this creepy feeling at the ending, but the feeling won't last long at all. You will NOT lose any sleep over this movie...unless you've never seen a horror movie and you're 6 years old. All in all, you don't absolutely have to skip it, but you probably won't really like it, unless you like American horror films based on Asian originals.Movie Review: Two missed hours
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is just awful. Plain terrible. Ed Burns must be needing to pay the rent. It's a cripplingly slow, illogical teen drama, that employs all the cliches we've come to expected from poor-written, hacked-together J-horror, including:
- Inexplicably p**sed-off scary girl at the center of the whole thing.
- The detective with the implausible interest in a bizarre case.
- The unexplained 'chain of death' (a la Grudge or Ring).
But whereas the Grudge was just plain ridiculous while scary (don't the neighbors get suspicious about that house?), and we all marveled at Samara's calendar scheduling skills in the Ring, this stinker wouldn't scare a 5-year old and there's no reason at all for any parts of the plot.
Oh, and the foreshadowing is so labored that even my wife said "why do they keep showing that" (in between reading a book and polishing her nails because she was so bored).