#6 Movie Review: Premiere Screening of The Call ❤
My 6th premiere screening of the year 2013. First of all, thank you Nuffnang
for the invitation. And this will be my first premiere screening with
my sister since she just started her new semester not long ago.
Thank you Nuffnang!
Synopsis
The
Call is a thriller film starring Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin.
Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) is a 911 operator who receives a call from
Leah Templeton (Evie Thompson), a teenage girl whose house is being
attacked by a serial killer (Michael Eklund). Jordan's clever
instructions allow Leah to evade the killer, but when
the call disconnects, Jordan redials the number, alerting the killer.
The mistake results in Leah's capture, and she is found dead several
days later.
Jordan
confides to her boyfriend Officer Paul Phillips (Morris Chestnut)
that the event has put her in a mental state where she can no longer
working as a 911 operator. Six months later, she is now a trainer for
911 operators.
At this time, the same killer kidnaps another teenager Casey Welson
(Abigail Breslin) from a mall parking lot and drives away with her in
the trunk of his car.
Autumn
(Ella Rae Peck), a rookie operator, receives the call and clearly
cannot handle it; Jordan sees this and takes over. Because Casey is
using a disposable phone,
they cannot get an exact GPS location of her. Jordan guides Casey into
signalling nearby cars who call 911, allowing the police to narrow their
search. The killer kills several citizens who intervene, and switches
cars with Alan Denado (Michael Imperioli),
one of his victims to elude the police. However, he inadvertently
leaves fingerprints at the scene of the car switch, and the police are
able to determine his identity, Michael Foster.
Michael arrives at his location and finds Casey on the phone,
mid-call with 911. After Jordan tells Michael that they know his
identity, he smashes the phone. Paul realizes that Casey looks very
similar to Michael's deceased sister. While their childhood home had
been burned down (implied to have been arson by Michael), a nearby
secondary house still stands. The police raid the house but find no one.
Jordan is mentally anguished by a second failure to save a child from
Michael, and visits the secondary home for clues. While there, she
recognizes the sound of a flagpole from the final moments of the 911
call, and finds a trap door amongst the grass where the primary house
used to stand. She goes in without calling the police.
Combining clues from the second half of the film as well as
observations of Michael in the cellar, his back story is put together.
Michael had romantic feelings towards his sister and wanted to marry her
(it is unclear if she reciprocated such advances). However, she
contracted a disease as a teenager (most likely leukemia), lost all her
hair, and died. Michael has a prop head that he treats like his sister,
but he needs a replacement for her hair. He's apparently been killing
many women who have hair similar to his sister's without the police
realizing. He takes the scalps of his victims, but so far, none of the
scalps have been correct, leading to repeated killings.
Jordan finds Casey tied in the cellar. As Michael is about to scalp
her, he shows some remorse for his actions but says he can't stop.
Jordan attacks him, freeing Casey. Casey and Jordan fight against
Michael and manage to knock him out. They tie him up in the cellar and
then abandon him to die (without calling the police), using the cover
story that Casey escaped and they don't know where Michael went.
Review
The plot is interesting but somehow is gory to me. The ending was a bit
lame for me. Somehow I wish they can extend the plot longer as this
movie only takes about 1 hour and 35 minutes. Anyway this plot gives me
an important lesson - Do not simply make prank calls on 911 in Unites
States (For Malaysia is 999). You might not know what will happen next!
Watch this movie readers! I'll rate this 4/5.
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