The Movie Diorama I think I've found it. Ladies and gentleman, this is the worst American remake of a Japanese horror that I have had the misfortune of watching. Not once. Not twice. But three times. With each viewing, my own sanity has gradually subsided, slowly revealing my true "final boss" form. That's right, I've gone super saiyan. Who am I? What am I? Why am I? This is what happens when I witness a film about a group of friends listening to voice mails from the future depicting the last sentence they exclaim before mysteriously dying. With each death, the phone call is passed along until everyone in the entire universe receives their final one missed call. Miike's original is not a classic by any means, an experimental horror film conveying the idea of cellular devices gradually destroying humanity by relinquishing simple face-to-face communication. This remake is identical in plot, yet somehow a million times worse. The only redeemable feature is the ringtone. That is it! Every jump scare or creepy imagery is horrific disposable visual effects that slowly forced me to pop my eyeballs out, throw them into a blender, and attempt to reconstruct the liquified remains. Every actor was atrocious. Every line of dialogue was borderline deadly. Screw waterboarding, want a good method for torture? Just smack this film on. Bam! All the answers you seek will come pouring out in the first ten minutes. Every character was boring, particularly the blandest detective ever who can be persuaded with the flutter of your eyelids. "We should split!", "that's not a good idea.", "but we will get more done?", "ok let's split!". The plot is pointless! Absolutely incomprehensibly stupid. Why these group of friends? Why is the ghost haunting them? Why does everyone have flip phones? Why is everyone standing around waiting to die!? The moral of the story is if you die from an asthma attack, you will become a spiteful spiritual entity that travels through mobile phones for no apparent reason. Quick! Pass me the inhaler now! Don't make me watch this again.

davelowen A tired story with poor acting. Definitely one to be missed!

hongkong666 "One Missed Call" is a remake of the Japanese version from 2003, was directed by Eric Valette and stars Shannyn Sossamon in the leading role. The plot was as simple back then as it is here and now. People receive a call from their own future self to their own cell containing the last few seconds of their deaths. The only problem with this remake is, that the film makers had no idea what they were doing and in my opinion the material of original director Takashi Miike was pretty much raped and left for dead. Not only that this remake doesn't have the creepy feeling of the original "Chakushin Ari", even the characters have been "white washed". We have seen this already with the US remake of "The Ring", with the differenece that in that remake a lot of respect was shown towards the original movie "Ringu". Not so in "One Missed Call". The significant ringtone was changed to a dull and relaxed one, taking completely away that sharp and chilling aura surrounding these calls. On top director Eric Valette completely missed the point of "One Missed Call" being a franchise such as the already mentioned "The Ring" and also "The Grudge". Of all these franchises solely "The Grudge" was able to stick to the basic idea behind the Asian vengeful spirit, probably because original director Takashi Shimizu also took on the US remake. Yes, there were mostly non Asian characters in it and that was fine for the spirits in form of Kayako and Toshio kept their Japanese origin, making the 3 US remakes still relatable to the origin "Yu-On" franchise. "The Ring" already failed to do so by replacing Sadako with Samara, but at least it was a really good movie with a great atmosphere. "One Missed Call" was supposed to carry the tradition forth with Mimiko, but instead we got some random characters you don't even care about and the PG13 crime gives this remake its death blow. You loved the original especially for the extended bone breaking, limb twisting death scene in the film studio? Forget about that in this one. This here is made for children's eyes. Sure, the CGI ghost effects towards the end were somewhat charming, but it is just about as creepy as some effects presented in "The Pirates Of The Carribean" and such. The hugging scene of the mother with rotten flesh falling off her fouly body piece by piece? Not even included! The only correct similarity seems to be that in both films the little girl who later becomes the vengeful spirit died due to an Asthma attack ignored by the mother(s). But that's about it. This remake is shot nicely and also the leading actors Shannyn Sossamon and Edward Burns tried their best to carry the film, but when the film itself already lacks any form of vision and respect for its origin, it just ends up as being a pointless, soulless cash grab product with a few nice visuals. If your kids are 13 you can show this atrocity to them, but please... as soon as they are old enough, do them a favour and show them the real thing. To all the fans of the original: stay away from this one. It will only anger you and leave a very bad taste in your mouth... Or is that due to the red candy? You have been warned!

jtungsten16 One Missed call is my favorite horror movie! I don't know why I'm reading any bad reviews about this movie. I think the acting, directing, writing and music in the film was superb. People really need to watch this movie and not listen to bad reviews because they will not be disappointed it entertains you from beginning to end and even has a twist. One Missed Call is definitely is a movie not to be missed. Ed Burns and Shannon have great chemistry and that was the only thing that disappointed me was that they never got together. One Missed Call is one of those horror movies that stick with you, especially because everyone has a cell phone and gets One Missed Call at least once everyday! So please people give One a Missed Call a chance I think you will be glad you did.