The Call Up

2016 "This time it's for real"
4.9| 1h30m| en| More Info
Released: 20 May 2016 Released
Producted By: Red & Black Films
Country: United Kingdom
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When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.

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Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
TeenzTen An action-packed slog
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
flatbeddriver Never leave reviews but had to after watching this. I very much enjoyed the story line, effects, and acting. This movie is seriously underrated. Morfydd Clark is an actress I'd never heard of and found her both gorgeous and entertaining. I'd like to see more of her work. Definitely worth relaxing and watching.
Andariel Halo What ever the idea behind this awful plot was in-universe, it has all the settings of being needlessly cruel and brutal and it just makes me angry. some random company lures a bunch of video gamers with the promise of $100,000 to the winner to a modern warfare VR game, but the catch is, if you die in the game, you die for real! it's so hackneyed and overused it's painful, and it never ceases to make me genuinely angry. the kids are basically lied to, told to put on the gaming suits and compete, not told about any of the dangers at all. A VR drill sergeant basically tortures them as much as the virtual enemy does, at one point actively interfering with the game and breaking one of the player's legs, effectively killing him as the others have to leave him behind for his brutal leg wound to get infected and have him die. maybe it's just me, but this is the kind of setup that would make me so incredibly angry that I would refuse to comply with orders, shoot and kill the VR sergeant when he comes threatening me, and if that doesn't work, shoot and kill everyone then kill myself, out of pure, white-hot raging spite. nothing else in this bland movie interests me beyond that. That's all I can fixate on. The whole thing is a total fraudulent setup. it's not clear if all of them are expert FPS video gamers or if maybe one or two of them is an expert at friggin World of Warcraft. Even if they were experts, they have no trainings and no experience with actual weaponry or modern warfare tactics. They all get one "medipack" that instantly heals them if shot, and that's it. After that they basically die for real. it's a pointless exercise just to murder a bunch of teenagers and young adults, and it's infuriating that they go along instead of refuse and defy these scumbags the whole way down.
Michael Ledo For those of you who couldn't get enough of "Gamer" or "Stay Alive" we have this modest production. A group of the world's top gamers who happen to be loners are offered a $100,000 prize to compete. They don special suits. They enter a 3D graphic world where they find weapons and must work their way down through 25 levels to get to the basement battling armed terrorists. When you die in cyberspace, the suit kills you. Attempts to escape or circumnavigate the rules are severely punished.It was a good concept and the plot elements and scenery was decent. The characters were diverse but not entertaining. Where was that one character we hated to see die? We need to get attached to the characters before they start to slaughter them. And plot spoiler, the black guy dies first, like in every cliché American horror film. How much would it have cost to have Jim Parsons to do a cameo as the game designer or the computer voice? Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
Ryan-lindsey1 Don't really understand why this movie has so many bad reviews, or such a low rating. It's no big blockbuster, but it isn't a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination. I actually really enjoyed it. I recommend it to anyone who likes original concept movies. I've certain never seen anything like it before.