Very little of this review will be about anything other then the last five minutes of The Call, because that is the only bit of the movie that matters even the slightest bit. Up until that final five minutes I was rather unperturbed by anything that went on on the screen. I was able to predict almost everything else that happened in the movie up to an hour before it happened.
In summary, it was a pretty standard thriller with a potentially interesting premise that is taken nowhere interesting. The key to this sort of movie is unpredictability, to keep the audience entertained they need to be wondering what’s next. This is why I did not love the recent Zero Dark Thirty, because it was a thriller with a conclusion that was common knowledge before the script was even written. Plot pr... |
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