One Missed Call (2008)
2008
PG-13
87 Minutes
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 is one film you do not want to answer, or in this case watch. I think I've found it. Ladies and gentleman, this is the worst American remake of a Japanese horror that I have had the misfortune of watching. Not once. Not twice. But three times. With each viewing, my own sanity has gradually subsided, slowly revealing my true "final boss" form. That's right, I've gone super saiyan. Who am I? What am I? Why am I? This is what happens when I witness a film about a group of friends listening to voice mails from the future depicting the last sentence they exclaim before mysteriously dying. With each death, the phone call is passed along until everyone in the entire universe receives their final one missed call. Miike's original is not a classic by any means, an experimental horror film conveying the idea of cellular devices gradually destroying humanity by relinquishing simple face-to-face communication. This remake is identical in plot, yet somehow a million times worse. The only redeemable feature is the ringtone. That is it! Every jump scare or creepy imagery is horrific disposable visual effects that slowly forced me to pop my eyeballs out, throw them into a blender, and attempt to reconstruct the liquified remains. Every actor was atrocious. Every line of dialogue was borderline deadly. Screw waterboarding, want a good method for torture? Just smack this film on. Bam! All the answers you seek will come pouring out in the first ten minutes. Every character was boring, particularly the blandest detective ever who can be persuaded with the flutter of your eyelids. "We should split!", "that's not a good idea.", "but we will get more done?", "ok let's split!". The plot is pointless! Absolutely incomprehensibly stupid. Why these group of friends? Why is the ghost haunting them? Why does everyone have flip phones? Why is everyone standing around waiting to die!? The moral of the story is if you die from an asthma attack, you will become a spiteful spiritual entity that travels through mobile phones for no apparent reason. Quick! Pass me the inhaler now! Don't make me watch this again.0 member like this review.
