One Missed Call: Critic Reviews

To redial applicable catchphrases, this garbled American remake of Takashi Miike's already staticky 2004 exercise in J-horror is a wrong number.

A brow-furrowing blend of child abuse and adult trauma, Andrew Klavan's screenplay sacrifices coherence for atmosphere at every turn.

Another demonstration of how certain studios and producers care neither about us nor the skill required to pull off a respectable work of garbage.

If you missed the first One Missed Call, made in Japan in 2004, you now can miss the American remake.

The script appears to blatantly rip-off plot devices and story elements from The Ring, but screenwriter Andrew Klavan avoids plagiarism by tacking on an incomprehensible second ending where Ring would have left off.

The deadliest call the cast and crew of One Missed Call ever received was the one from their agent telling them that this was the best work available.

Decent if derivative.

Pity this most mysterious 'Can you hear me now?' of all is spoiled by too many answers to too many questions.

The best part of the movie is the fact that, at a running time of an hour and a half, it's mercifully short.

Give this call a miss.

The worst part about this movie is that, even though it's impossible to piece everything together logically, it's easy to see where it's going because there's nothing new here. There's a sameness to all these Japanese-turned-American retreads.

The direction is uninspired, acting is lifeless, and the script borders on the inept. A PG-13 rating means that it's short on shocks, too.

The unintentional camp makes for some eye-rolling interest early on, and French director Eric Valette does manage a few hair-raising moments, but by then, the movie has missed by a mile.

Are we really supposed to believe that, if you die angry while holding a cell phone, you can make the 'Can you hear me now?' guy throw himself in front of a bus?

One big miss of a horror movie.

For a would-be frightfest built around a supernatural premise, One Missed Call is so glum and businesslike that it's not nearly as much pulpy fun as it should be.

The call gets through, but the signal is so weak and garbled in the cross-Pacific transit that the message is lost, leaving audience on hold, waiting for scares that never come.

Oooooh, a cell phone that kills! Really? Wow! Some people might find that creepy, but it's just silly isn't it?

The first major release of the year is a complete dud. Shocker!

A market-spawned Happy Meal trinket lacking both skill and wisdom

Estreando como diretor em Hollywood, o frances Eric Valette ja se mistura a multidao de cineastas sem personalidade nos primeiros minutos do longa.

Poorly conceived, badly cast and frequently dull horror film that fails in its quest to make mobile phones scary.

...not the worst horror movie I've ever seen, but it is among the more tedious.