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Shannyn Sossamon
Edward Burns
Azura Skye
Ray Wise
Ana Claudia Talancón
Jessica Brown

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A remake of the 2003 version of the same name, people begin to receive voice-mails left by their future selves.

10/26/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

One Missed Call should be One Missed Movie

I believe there is an unwritten rule in Hollywood, that when an original idea for a horror film is thought-up, it is immediately quashed by the brass and replaced with another Japanese remake thought. This must be the reason we have seen nothing new or creative since the days of George A. Romero and Stuart Gordon, but instead are subjected to Americanized rehashings of Ringu, The Grudge, (the forthcoming The Eye) and the latest, One Missed Call, Takashe Miike’s child-ghost screamie about phone calls from the dead.

Young student Beth (Shannyn Sossamon) has found herself amidst an eerie sequence of events: she is a first-hand witness to the deaths of most of her friends, is always present for their last-minute confessions and is being haunted by childhood memories of her own abuse. Befo...

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2/4 

10/20/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Let voicemail pick it up

I just wrote about the original Asian version of "One Missed Call" and said that for the first time I liked the American remake better. That is not to say that it's a great movie; I just thought it was slightly more entertaining.

For one thing, the story actually took place in the United States; it was not just the same location with a teen star from the CW visiting Japan. That seemed to make it easier to follow.

They're all just a variation of "The Ring", anyway. But for some reason, this one was a little more compelling than most.

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2.5/4 

10/05/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

::Yawn::

Sadly, the poster is just as god-awful as the movie itself.

There are shots composed with dreamy, water-color-like appeal, but they are too few to really give this film any credit.

Bad writing, limp plot, high-school acting & rip-off effects - all bury any chances it may have had...Wait did it have a chance at all to begin with??? Well, maybe. The presence of the ultra-pretty Sossamon is enough to intrigue me, but she has yet to display any REAL acting talent so - overall, "Eh".

I not only grew bored of Burns' tired, bags-under-the-eyes appearance, but the carbon copy "story," left me aching impatiently for it to end - what a waste.

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0.5/4 

08/21/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

I Expected Nothing, I Got Less Than Nothing

This was really hard to sit through because nothing made sense. I rarely say that about movies but this one felt like it was filmed for three days. I felt like the filmmakers didn’t even try to make a good movie. The visual effects were corny, the thrills were not present, and the characters were thick. The film immediately jumped to the scares, which was not an effective move because the audiences were not yet invested in the characters. In order words, it was hard to care. I usually like Shannyn Sossamon but even she couldn’t carry this picture. I keep picking my brain to come up with one good thing about the movie but I can’t recall one. I was bored from beginning to end; half-way through, I wanted to do something else (and I did while the movie was on). I just wish that Americans woul...

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1/4