Protraph Lack of good storyline.

PodBill Just what I expected

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Scarecrow-88 Mercifully this slog put a death knell in the Asian horror remake craze that went for about six years. Sadly this Asian horror boom took a hit because of the interior American remakes galvanizing the marketplace at the time. While there are certainly good horror movies from Japan, Tawain, and the like, their increasing popularity in the early 2000s was set back by audiences tiring of Hollywood flooding theaters with rotters like One Missed Call. I read that the director didn't watch Miike's film nor would he allow the cast to, either. He should have...he could have used some pointers. Shannyn Sossamon is a pretty and emphatic actress but she has a lot of unflatteringly bad CGI, poorly orchestrated paranormal shenanigans, bland characterizations from actors undermined by underwritten victim friends, and boring plot (not to mention a dud of a reasoning behind why the phone terror takes place, a chain of future death messages to Sossamon's friends involving a fire at St Luke's, a nagging ringtone that is about as obnoxious as the jingle of Silver Shamrock from Halloween III, possible abuse towards a girl which could result from the mother or her asthmatic sister, cop Ed Burns' sister who was a nurse that knew a blond child with knowledge of the possible supernatural culprit, and a "nanny cam" hidden in a teddy bear) to work opposite, stranding her in a barren wasteland of bad, soulless crud.Somehow the phone ghoul can make windows break, push a victim into an oncoming train, cause a beam to impale a victim thanks to a construction disaster (what is this Final Destination???), use a knife to stab a victim through a door, strangle a victim in a church after causing statues of Jesus and Mary to come alive to spook her, and leave behind marbles in the victims' mouths. If this was shot tongue in cheek perhaps there might be some fun to be had, but this is all serious and empty. The thing about Miike is his films are made with a sense of jolly madness, and there's heart behind his direction. This Hollywood cash grab is DOA from the get-go. Meagan Good is dragged into her pond by a hand where she quite literally swims with the fishes. It isn't imaginative or shot with any flair. This film is just a dead fish flapping out of water, sucking air.

Kaat1220 I am giving this a ten to balance out all of the unfair reviews. Does this movie reinvent the horror genre? No. However, it has a unique plot and two strong leads with Shannyn Sossamon and Edward Burns. Too many people rate horror movies based on how bloody or action-packed they are. I am one of those viewers that does not want to see bloody arms and legs everywhere. This is a good, solid horror film that does not need a lot of gore to remain interesting. I think that this movie will find its audience and end up being a cult favorite.

Finfrosk86 OK, that's the last time I take a chance on a movie with that low a score.This might be the longest 87 minute movie I have ever seen. You know when you are just waiting for a movie to be over? Yeah, that's not a good thing, agree?This movie is absolutely not scary. It totally fails on creating tension. Someone is walking down the street and, oh, look! a creepy ass face.. Huh. Oh, there's another one! In the middle of the day - better just keep walking! Yes, the faces are kind of creepy, awfully CG-looking, but creepy, but they do not scare. And another thing, these people are seeing these creepy faces and stuff, and never do they ever react like a normal human being. Do they tell any one? Nope. A normal person would go: "whoah, I just saw a ghostly super creepy face in the window, what the hell"!? Instead they just, uhm, you know, keep totally quiet. Even when someone else is right there with them. The pacing is strange, the CG is poor, the story is.. it could have been cool, but it's wasted. The movie does slightly redeem it self towards the end, slightly though. It's still pretty darn crappy. The director could have gone for creepy, chose crappy.There are a couple of scenes that are, well, not terrible, I'll give the movie that, but that's not much though.Skip this one. I think I'll check out the original sometime. The director and actors never even saw it, so it's probably very different and much better.

eric262003 I guess Hollywood would like to dumb us down by assuming that if you take a bunch of horror remakes and roll it into one film, we would never know the difference. Long gone are the days when horror films were made in the tradition of originality and creativity of George Romero and Stuart Gordon. But I digress, "One Missed Call" falls into the Hollywood rehashing of other horrors like "Ringu", "The Grudge" and "The Eye" only this was based on Japanese remake of Takashe Miike's 2003 horror film about strange phone calls from below the grave.A young psychology student named Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon) has been put in an unflattering disposition after a series of eerie unfortunate events as she's become a witness of her friends' deaths as she herself has been internally and eternally scarred from abuse as a child. Before her friends deaths, they all receive chilling messages about their future from their cellphones accompanied by an unorthodox ringtone. The final words come into their own voice and a terrifying scream. After two days their message about their fate comes true and the victims fall to their death.The only person who understands Beth's situation is Det. Jack Andrews (Edward Burns). He knows about this because his sister was one of those victims this mysterious caller has killed. There's very little to do in this situation other then scan through their phones, destroy them and investigate an old hospital that caught on fire a short time ago before Beth gets her own death message. A television program believes that the calls are made by the devil himself and the host of the show made a promise to exorcise one of the victims. Ted Summers (Ray Wise) has invited Beth's friend Taylor Anthony (Ana Claudia Talancon) on his show to be cleansed of any evil inside of her. Once that scene is over, it quickly becomes forgotten. And then it's back to more generic phone records and breaking cellphones.Granted, this movie has its share of frightening moments, but I felt like I've this one many times before with really nothing new to offer. The unlimited images of shadows and and hands materializing through dark areas and bodies twitching with eerie facial expressions before they disappear are quite impressive. The only real scene that stands out above the rest was a the baby with the cellphone and even that scene alone is purely unjustified. All this movie contains are nothing more than just creepy imagery like the ethereal figures that come up near the end of the movie.The performances in the movie really offer very little to the credibility to the movie. With the exception of Sossamon and Burns who provided passable performances, it's a pity what happens in the end to one of them, and overall we cannot provide any care to most of the characters if they did not lighten our hearts. It's like I brought my ticket to the theatre and now I have to sit through not expecting very much.