One Missed Call 2008

Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: One big miss of a horror movie. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: About as fresh and vital as a fifth-generation dub of The Star Wars Holiday Special. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Another demonstration of how certain studios and producers care neither about us nor the skill required to pull off a respectable work of garbage. Read more

Scott Schueller, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: To redial applicable catchphrases, this garbled American remake of Takashi Miike's already staticky 2004 exercise in J-horror is a wrong number. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Another mediocre remake of a Japanese horror film in which flashes of computer-generated ghosts are meant to compensate for lousy acting and a banal storyline. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Given all the hoopla over the Apple iPhone, it's a wonder that no one has yet complained over an essential missing feature: It doesn't ring you up to alert you that you are going to die. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Pity this most mysterious 'Can you hear me now?' of all is spoiled by too many answers to too many questions. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 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. Read more

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: If you missed the first One Missed Call, made in Japan in 2004, you now can miss the American remake. Read more

Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Give this call a miss. Read more

Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: The best part of the movie is the fact that, at a running time of an hour and a half, it's mercifully short. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: Decent if derivative. Read more