|
||||||||||||||||||||
One Missed Call - Review
Rated: PG-13 Distributor: Warner Brothers Release Date: 2008-01-04 Starring: Ed Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancon, Ray Wise, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe, Margaret Cho
Directed by Eric Valette
Produced by Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Scott Kroopf, Jennie Lew
Written by Andrew Klavan
Visit the movie's Official Site!
It stars Shannyn Sossamon and Ed Burns as two people with no personality inexplicably involved in some sort of curse which has nothing to do with them . Shannyn plays Beth Raymond, a college co-ed who dresses in clothes stolen out of her grandmother’s closet, and whose friends are mysteriously dying. Before their death, each of them receives a phone call, from themselves, and they hear themselves die. The time of the call predicts their death, and so while they wait for the ghost to show up and kill them, they all hallucinate creepy crawlies. It’s not long before Beth gets such a call, and so she enlists the help of an easily convinced police detective named Jack, played by Ed Burns, to keep her from ending up in the morgue. The script is terrible and the characters within it barely more than cardboard cutouts waiting to be killed. The curse, is ridiculous and never actually makes any sense, even at the end, when it’s explained to us. There’s no real reason for what’s happening, even though the movie spends most of its running time trying to find one. The answer it does come up with, simply doesn’t fit. As for being scary, forget it. The closest thing One Missed Call had to offer are cheap camera tricks. For instance, the moment in the film that seemed to get the biggest reaction out of the audience I saw it with, has Sossamon reacting to a noise, jumping, and turning to reveal Ed Burns calmly standing behind her depressing an inhaler… for no particular reason. If that’s your kind of horror movie, then One Missed Call might be for you. My personal theory here is that this is a movie primarily constructed to sell ringtones. The ghost uses a signature ring to call people, and assuming anyone liked this piece of shit, I’m sure whichever corporate conglomerate it was that had hand in making this thing will make a mint off of selling it for suckers to put on their Nokia. I hope everyone who sees this movie runs right out and buys it, so I’ll know who to avoid engaging in conversation. I have an excuse. I had to see it. You on the other hand chose to see it, and then went home to download a crummy overpriced ringtone so you could remember all the fun you had seeing it. Not only did you choose to see an obviously awful movie, you enjoyed it. Whoever you are, I’m not talking to you.
Thumbnails Gallery for One Missed Call
     Social Bookmark This Article Blinklist
 Del.icio.us
 Digg
 Furl
 Slashdot
 Facebook
 StumbleUpon
 Yahoo!
 Propeller
Comment on “One Missed Call”Note: This website is not intended for use by minors. The views expressed in this comments section are not necessarily our own. Comments that we deem to be poorly worded, off topic, or threatening will not be published. For free, uncensored discussion visit our forum.
Leave a ReplyMAIN SITE NAVIGATION
HOME l ABOUT US l l SEARCH l MOVIE NEWS l MOVIE REVIEWS l MOVIE PREVIEWS l DVD REVIEWS l DVD NEWS l SOUNDTRACKS l FEATURES DATABASE l TELEVISION l MUSIC l GAMES l CELEBRITY l TECHNOLOGY l RSS 2.0 FEEDS l MESSAGE BOARDS l LIVE CHAT l SYNDICATE US l LINKS | CB STORE | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT This site is owned and operated by Joshua Tyler. For advertising inquiries, contact Gorilla Nation. All original content, text and graphical, is the intellectual property of Cinema Blend. The views expressed on this website may or may not reflect those of its owner. Don't take us too seriously. Made in Webta Labs 
|
|
January 5th, 2008 at 16:19
WORST MOVIE EVERRR!!!!!!! everything happends too quick in the begining and its soo predictible :p