The Call
MPAA Rating: RIn Theaters: March 15th, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes (95 minutes)
Rated R for violence, disturbing content and some language.
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The Call Review
- What's Good:
- Building up of suspense and excitement, some tense moments.
- What's Bad:
- Two people talking over the whole movies, seems like a sell-out!
- Verdict:
- It's a lot better than you might expect a movie like this to be.
- Watch or Not:
- Watch it if you like the genre.
Audience Ratings for The Call
Plot Summary
When veteran 911 operator, Jordan (Halle Berry), takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
Critics Reviews for The Call
43 Critics like this movie.
Reviews Counted: 21 | Positive Review: 9 | Negative Review: 12 | Average Rating: 2.8/5Let's call The Call what it is: high quality trash that both diminishes and is redeemed by all the talents who have deigned to bring it to life.
Critic Score: 3/5
If you're going to watch a movie in which two people talk on the phone for most of the film, it's not the worst thing in the world for one of the folks involved to have the face of Storm from the X-Men.
Critic Score: B
This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.
Critic Score: 1.5/4
It's a lot better than you might expect a movie like this to be.
Critic Score: 3/4
"The Call" consciously decides to slowly drown itself in the tub.
Critic Score: D+
Yes, it's cheese, but it's good cheese.
Critic Score: B
I'll say one thing for "The Call": Its ending is actually a bit of a surprise. Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, pow!
Critic Score: 1.5/4
Can't someone come up with screenwriting software that signals when a script has made the fatal slip from hyped-up suspense to sheer ludicrousness?
Critic Score: 2/4
... a breakneck, truly thrilling thriller, one that builds excitement through both brains and brutality ...
Critic Score: 4
The material has the mild impact of a special episode of a network crime series, with Eklund's villain a figure of mannered creepiness rather than profound chills.
Critic Score: 2/5
If it were any more intense would require a complete physical and medical clearance for admission into the theater.
Critic Score: 3/4
A sputtering, so-so B thriller with a neat hook but very little personality.
Critic Score: 2/4
The Call cribs from so many other psychological thrillers that it might as well be called "The Girl With the Lovely Bones Cellular Silence of the Lambs.''
Critic Score: 2/4
An effectively creepy thriller about a 911 operator and a young miss in peril, "The Call" is a model of low-budget filmmaking.
Critic Score: 5/5
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.
Critic Score: 4/10
Thinking about seeing The Call? You may want to put that on hold.
Critic Score: 2/4
Maybe Anderson wants to sell out, but he's not very good at it.
Critic Score: 2/4
"The Call" dials up a shallow thrill ride, but one efficiently peppered with your typical "don't go in there!" moments.
Critic Score: 3/5
The film is at once shamelessly transparent, manipulative, and far-fetched, and impossibly suspenseful. You'll want to take a shower afterward - that's how icky you'll feel.
Critic Score: 2/4
There's little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish Law and Order rerun.
For the most part ... a tense, extreme-jeopardy thriller that delivers the intended goods.
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Halle Berry at 'The Call' Premiere in Rio de Janeiro on April 11, 2013
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