Starring Halle Berry, The Call focuses on a 911 operative, who gets a call from a girl who has been abducted and is in the boot of a car. She then sets about trying to rescue the girl.
This is largely a film in 3 acts, the opening act sets up the characters and is used to add tension during the second act, which is "The call" itself, however the film is let down by it's final act, and the way in which the film brings about its conclusion.
The first hour if this movie is superb, tense and gritty, well acted, and with well developed character and plot, however the final half an hour or so of this film is very weak, and the half baked explanations for the abductors motives are a little bizarre. It is difficult to say to much without plot spoiling, but it's almost as if they got to the end of the call itself, without any real idea of how the drama was going to end. The final scenes feel a bit forced, in order to reach a conclusion, and takes a twist off the road of believability. Which is a shame as two thirds in this was shaping up to be a really good thriller.
New and refreshing, gritty, slightly unsettling and something different from a lot of the run of the mill cinema on offer, but massively let down by it's final act 6/10
This is largely a film in 3 acts, the opening act sets up the characters and is used to add tension during the second act, which is "The call" itself, however the film is let down by it's final act, and the way in which the film brings about its conclusion.
The first hour if this movie is superb, tense and gritty, well acted, and with well developed character and plot, however the final half an hour or so of this film is very weak, and the half baked explanations for the abductors motives are a little bizarre. It is difficult to say to much without plot spoiling, but it's almost as if they got to the end of the call itself, without any real idea of how the drama was going to end. The final scenes feel a bit forced, in order to reach a conclusion, and takes a twist off the road of believability. Which is a shame as two thirds in this was shaping up to be a really good thriller.
New and refreshing, gritty, slightly unsettling and something different from a lot of the run of the mill cinema on offer, but massively let down by it's final act 6/10
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