One missed call film9/23/2023 It's a bore for the most part never doing much to shock, disturb, or surprise us. So much that I can't even recommend it to horror fans since this one might put a couple of them to sleep. This is admirable, and the film is at its best when it's not trying to be the creepy, effective horror movie that it just wasn't meant to be. I liked how this film used minimal gore, and didn't try to scare us in the cheapest of ways. The film often tries hard at a good atmosphere, and it almost creates one. This strikes our "characters" as particularly odd, and as with nearly all J-horror flicks, the story turns into a mildly entertaining, seldom engaging visual-trip that alas doesn't offer enough of a plot or enough of a visual-trip. The voice is that of their own but they are always in a dying or near-to-dying state. It's about a mysterious phone-call that people keep getting. This causes the admittedly ambitious premise to go to nigh complete waste, and this also causes Takashi Miike's "One Missed Call" to come a bit short when it comes to scares, entertainment, story, characters, or anything, for the matter. Here is a film that was almost on the good side of decent, but staggered right from the start.
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