One Missed Call(着信アリ)

Film Threat by

One Missed Call plays like a good cover song. It's not just a repetition of the previous tune.

Variety by Derek Elley

Combines scares and chuckles with good production values.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

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.

L.A. Weekly by Ron Stringer

It's a prolonged, maddening, predictable -- yet curiously pleasurable -- descent into incomprehensibility.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Strictly generic, it does little more than regurgitate the J-horror hits "Ringu" and "Ju-on."