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Missed Call
 One Missed Call $12.98 I really tried to remain as open minded as possible when I popped this film in because I kept hoping it would end up being better than Takashi Miike's mediocre mess, how hard could it be right? I mean when Hollywood remakes fantastic films fans can pretty much expect the worst but in this particular case they had the opportunity to only improve things. Unfortunately, yet another J-Horror remake was flubbed. No big surprise really. One Missed Call delivers insulting product placement (Boost Mobile) aimed at children with disposable income, absolutely moronic characters that commit senseless acts of unimaginable stupidity, a criminally underutilized Ray Wise and a finale that ends up being a jumbled, convoluted mess. Sossamon and Burns' one-dimensional characters were hard to connect with (even with Sossamon's lame back story) and when all was said and done I found myself enjoying only two sequences. Two nifty sequences do not make a movie though. I was incredibly disappointed with this film and it's just another disappointment in what seems to be a very long line of disappointments when it comes to Hollywood remakes of superior Japanese filmmaking. Isn't it funny that Miike's blow-off cinema is still better than the big budget remake steamers Hollywood drops? There's just nothing here worth seeing folks, I wouldn't lie to ya. If I thought this was a good film, I'd say so. Now, I won't exaggerate and insist this is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen but it is most definitely the stupidest film I've seen in a good many months.  One Missed Call 1 + 2 $14.95 Contains the manga for the two films One Missed Call and One Missed Call 2. It's like somebody took the storyboard from each film, added text balloons, and called it manga. That's how painstakingly unoriginal it is. |
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