Nahum Figueroa I watched this movie because I had no other "horror" movie to watch; actually, because I had nothing else to watch.Let's get one thing straight - this movie will not scare you at all. It has the predictable cheap "jump scares" but they're cheap and not scary at all.Let's get another thing straight - this is sci-fi so of course the supernatural stuff does not make any sense at all. The story does not make sense. The ending does not make sense.I remember I fast-forwarded a few times here and there, but in general, I was kept interested most of the time to find out what the big "mystery" was. I personally didn't feel offended by the acting, like other reviewers did.My advice: if you're seeking to get scared, this is not for you. But if you're looking for a mystery supernatural movie about people dying and you having to wait until the end to sort-of find out why, then this one is for you. Watch it with an open-mind, fast-forward if you need to, and you might sort-of like this mystery film.6.0/10.0 seems appropriate in my opinion, especially since I already knew not to expect much. I'll now go check out the original Japanese version of it.

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.

SnoopyStyle People receive voice mails from the dead with messages of their deaths in the near future showing the time and date. Leann Cole (Azura Skye)'s friend Shelley dies in a supernatural drowning. Leann receives a call from Shelley with a voice mail of her death. She starts to have bizarre visions and she gets killed by supernatural forces while on the phone with her friend Beth Raymond (Shannyn Sossamon). Beth's boyfriend Brian Sousa (Johnny Lewis) had also gotten a phone call and gets killed. Det. Jack Andrews (Edward Burns) is investigating after the death of his sister which seems to be linked. Then Beth's roommate Taylor Anthony (Ana Claudia Talancón) receives the call. TV producer Ted Summers (Ray Wise) comes sniffing around.It's yet another American remake of a Japanese horror movie. The CGI is weak. It would be much better to use real effects more. Instead of CGI bugs, they should use try and true real bugs. There is a general lack of horror atmosphere. The movie shows all of its tricks rather early with Leann's death. It doesn't leave much for the rest. It basically grinds on and on with a boring investigation. Sossamon tries her jumpy best, but the movie never really ramps up the thrills.

ovidnine I have not seen the original this was based off and I've heard its actually good.Do not mistake this film for good.The premise- You get a voice message from the future and that's when you die. (Yeah, you read that correctly...)So, the premise is a bit weak, but hey, maybe it'll be decently written, or acted, or directed?Not really. Stock B (or C) level horror folk populate the movie and you don't ever really grow to care about any of them. Edward Burns character doesn't really seem to have a personality either even as he gets wrapped deeper into the nonsense going on around him.The director feels the need to show a cell phone in almost every shot, as if the cellphone itself is what's terrifying. The cellphone is not, the call itself is as you're going to die whether or not you got around to listening to the voice message.The movie is pretty boring but the last 20 minute or so switch from boring to bizarre. As in "WTF is going on? This makes no sense." It starts to make sense, and then no, it doesn't make sense anymore. If you're really bored and desperate looking for a horror movie, this exists, but I can't recommend wasting any time on it.