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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
Give this call a miss.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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This decent if derivative scare machine should benefit from a lack of genre competition.
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ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Uninspired and painfully familiar.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
A poker-faced puzzle whose biggest shock is the absence of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
50
The result is yet another tired, ultimately incoherent horror movie that undoes the promise of its pretty good premise and potentially interesting story structure with dull scares, sloppy ending and a pair of unconvincing, leaden lead performances.
10
Film Threat by Pete Vonder Haar
The original movie One Missed Call is based on was pretty tame, at least by Miike standards. And since it appears studios have no intention of halting this flood of abysmal rehashes, allow me to suggest that they at least have the stones not to pussyfoot around and give us a remake worthy of Hollywood, of America, and of an audience that lacks the willpower to stop buying tickets to half-assed crap.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Richard James Havis
The direction is uninspired, acting is lifeless, and the script borders on the inept.
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On the shortlist for least essential movie of the decade, a copy of a copy of a copy that's so worn down, it's about as fresh and vital as a fifth-generation dub of "The Star Wars Holiday Special."
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One Missed Call was originally a so-so Takashi Miike freak-out. Now it's a worse-worse American eyesore.