At first, The
Call seems out of place and doesn’t seem to find a link between what
you’re being shown and what you’re supposed to enjoy. Then, “the call” comes
in, and the movie starts. This thriller begins to get thrilling, especially
when the heroine ends up answering the kidnapper’s call for the second time.
The movie then
moves into a chase to save the girl—a chase that’s very thrilling and keeps you
on the edge of your seat as you start to wonder how it will all play out. But
this whole excitement meets an anticlimax the moment Halle Berry, our
protagonist, decides to take matters into her own hands. From here, the movie
starts to look stupid and seems like a desperate attempt to make her look more
like a true heroine by letting her be the one to take out the bad guy—something
the police should have done.
This almost
creepy, almost gruesome 2013 movie features Halle Berry as a 911 operator named
Jordan, who attends to a 911 call from a girl about to be kidnapped. Jordan,
out of panic, calls the girl back after the phone disconnects, making it easier
for the kidnapper/killer to find the victim. This is because the killer was
unable to find his victim and was about to leave, thinking she had fled out the
window, when the call came in, exposing where she was hiding.
Seeing her
predicament, Jordan leaves the 911 operator seat to become a trainer. But
lightning strikes twice. While coaching, a 911 call about a kidnapping comes
in, and the new recruit doesn’t know what to do. So, Jordan takes over, and a
chase to find the kidnapper and the kidnapped girl begins.
Brad Anderson
started well with this flick but crashed it at the end. After waiting almost
half an hour for the movie to start rolling in the punches, I felt horrible
when I realized that the last 20–30 minutes were just a waste.
That said, it
hasn’t hindered the financial success of this film at the box office.
Originally conceptualized as a TV series, this movie is far from perfect, and
the last minutes of the film marred the whole buildup.
I won’t be recommending this movie to my friends, and I won’t recommend it to you either. The movie fails to be fun, which is odd based on the idea.
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