One Missed Call plays like a good cover song. It's not just a repetition of the previous tune.
One Missed Call(着信アリ)
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Japan · 2003
Rated R · 1h 52m
Director Takashi Miike
Starring Ko Shibasaki, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi, Anna Nagata
Genre Horror, Thriller
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A student receives a voicemail message from her future self, ending with her own dying screams, and the exact date and time of her future death, listed on the message log. Terror ensues as her friends race to find answers before their own deaths are foretold.
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What are critics saying?
Combines scares and chuckles with good production values.
The film is slow and somber during the windup but pretty scary in the follow-through.
The New York Times by Lawrence Van Gelder
Where "Ringu" derived its power from the simplicity of its premise and the purity of its execution, One Missed Call staggers under the weight of its director's taste for baroque excess.
Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan
Even with nothing at stake emotionally, though, he conjures some real scares, and the finale is as much a head-scratcher as a heart-stopper -- in a good way.
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
All we're left with is a second-rate J-Horror entry that bores rather scares.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
One Missed Call, one of the five movies he made in 2003, is no more than Miike's shot at generating a polished, rote, expertly composed J-horror flick.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
One Missed Call is so unoriginal that the movie could almost be a parody of J-horror tropes, yet Miike, for a while at least, stages it with a dread-soaked visual flair that allows you to enjoy being manipulated.
It's a prolonged, maddening, predictable -- yet curiously pleasurable -- descent into incomprehensibility.
Strictly generic, it does little more than regurgitate the J-horror hits "Ringu" and "Ju-on."
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