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 | One Missed Call /Dont Pick Up the Cell Phone!/ |  
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| Year: 2008 |
| Director: Eric Valette |
| Cast: Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns, Ana Claudia Talancon, Azura Skye, Johnny Lewis, Jason Beghe, Meagan Good, Rhoda Griffis, Ariel Winter, Raegan Lamb, Karen Beyer |
| Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Runtime: 87 min. |
| IMDB: This film on IMDB |
| Plot: In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths. |
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One Missed Call comments / review |
| Date: 2009-12-16 20:33:26 |
User: Buy Truy |
One Missed Call mines the conventions of J-horror ghost stories, resurrecting the thematic "curse" of films like The Ring and The Grudge -- this time attaching the hex not to a video tape or a house, but rather to a cell phone. As silly as the plot sounds, there's an element of genius (Perhaps "genius" is too strong a word; how about "non-hamfistedness?") in the concept of a curse affixing itself to a device that so many of us can't live without and being passed along through cell phone address books like a virus.
Of course, the concept was dealt with by much steadier hands in the original movie, directed by cult icon Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer). Abnormally "by the books" for a Miike film, the original nonetheless featured a boldness lacking in the remake, helmed by French director Eric Valette. Gone is the uncompromising twist ending, gone are some of the gory details, gone is the in-depth look into the heroine's own troubled past that ties in with the story's climax. Instead, Valette throws in canned "scary images" that serve no purpose other than boosting the spooky quotient (they doesn't work), and screenwriter Andrew Klavan ties up the ending with a ridiculously Hollywood, borderline Disney bow.
As with the original, questions abound regarding the logistics of this curse (What if you don't "miss" the call and instead just answer the phone? Doesn't anyone have a land line listed in their cell phone address book? What if someone has the number to the local pizza parlor listed? Would there be a bunch of dead Luigis in the morgue?), but the original was engrossing enough that we overlooked such head-scratchers.
There's no bigger indicator of the quality of One Missed Call, though, than the cast. Sossamon and Burns are simply two of the dullest actors working today, Sossamon appearing to have just popped a handful of Lunesta and Burns seeming to be perpetually disinterested, as if pondering what's become of his career since The Brothers McMullen. Even if the original film's plot made little sense and was derivative of the J-horror films that preceded it, it's still leaps and bounds ahead of this shallow husk of a remake. |
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