The Call

Kmac:

The Call is a straightforward thriller that is perfect as a simple summer watch and great to watch with company. I never intended to rent this movie. The plot, a 911 worker receives a call from a kidnapped girl and must find her in time to save her, seemed like a straightforward action thriller and one that I would half watch if Jmac insisted on seeing it. Who ended up insisting on seeing this movie was actually my sister, lets call her Kbowk, who was visiting us. Since she was our guest, and I can’t say no to her, I let her have her way and we all settled in to watch, though I kept my laptop open to surf the web if it was dull. I ended up just as engrossed as everyone else.

The people you watch movies with can make or break an experience for you. There are many comedies that are not funny if you watch them on your own but become classics when quoting them with friends. I probably would have half watched this movie if not for my sister. Her reactions to the suspense and sudden turns actually made the movie more suspenseful for me. This is pretty clever movie and following the action from the perspective of a 911 operator felt fresh. It is well acted with good turns from both Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin. It is what it aims to be, a thriller with enough jolts to keep you engaged. Be warned though, this is a movie that makes you want to yell at the TV. I would suggest not watching with people who tend to “Oh No” every time the hero is in trouble if you need a quiet environment.

On the whole I really liked this movie, with commentary I wish you could all hear from my sister, and would suggest it as a good Friday night movie. For those of you on dates this is definitely a cuddle movie for when it gets intense.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 “the killer is never really dead.”

Jmac:

Well I had not really wanted to see the movie but then my sister in law was in town and wanted to hang out and she wanted to watch the movie so thats what we decided on. Generally as a rule I'm not really into Halle Berry, not really on acting grounds, but mostly because of her outspoken messed up race relations thoughts, that usually serve to be more divisive than inclusive.

So anyway the movie was your straightforward thriller with a crazy bad guy, that was listening to Bush in the car, so everyone can now think people that listen to Bush are crazy; a young kidnapped girl (Abigail Breslin who is not so young anymore), and of course Halle Berry that is dealing with a traumatic event from her past work experience. Oh and Michael Imperioli (Christopher from The Sopranos) makes a brief appearance.

The action was pretty believable, and we were all saying what we thought Breslin was going to do next to save herself, which I was the most correct on, so my not so sure how well my wife or sister in law would react in that kind of situation.

Things get real in the end with Breslin being the real hero of the story, but I won't spoil the ending for you.

Overall you will enjoy watching the movie if thrillers are what you are into, not enjoy it so much that you should have seen it in the theatres, but enough to spend $1.25 at Redbox for it.

I give it 3.8 “that’s not Abigail Breslin, that girl has boobs” out of 5.