One Missed Call

I didn’t watch this movie until yesterday because the cover always freaked me out. I thought the film was going to be really creepy-scary and warped (I don’t care for these cinematic features), but it wasn’t. It was just pointless. To be fair, the movie has an interesting driving plot: the victims all receive cell phone messages of their future selves saying their last words before they die. The imagery of dead people appearing throughout is well placed, and Ed Burns plays the part of the detective effectively. But that’s about all that is good. One Missed Call mimics the Final Destination franchise in its overt message that death is coming soon but mostly delivers a fragmented story in which the writers appear to have half-haphazardly scrapped together a scrambled collage of unfinished and unrelated scenes. And aside from Burns, the acting is terrible. No one seems to know why they are in the movie. The writing is terrible too. Flashbacks (of two characters) aren’t satisfyingly explained nor do they serve any purpose. Isolated, they are interesting, but tying into the plot here, they do not (says Master Yoda). And to top it all off, the conclusion only confuses the viewer, dangling two simultaneous and conflicting events one after the other. I wouldn’t worry about missing this one.

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