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Missed Call

One Missed Call

USA 2008

DIRECTOR

Eric Valette

INTERPRETERS

Edward Burns, Shannyn Sossamon, Ana Claudia Talancón, Ray Wise

SCREENPLAY

Andrew Klavan

Oi oi oi bad film but it is this: a (horrible) remake of a (good) film commercial director of the craziest in the world, Takashi Miike. How else to call a man who could turn works like "Ichi the Killer" and "Gozu", able to mix the visual noir thriller with delusions of LSD? It would have come out well in the new premises "The call" because it was revisited in a western movie miikiani not exist, then certainly more malleable material than the classic film, the most crazy, wild and anarchic. But the film fails miserably, however, and in the worst way. Eric Valette is primarily the reason of the disaster: French director, famous in the world of horror movie fan for an obscene film appreciated by most, "Malefique", here the test of 9 with a respectable budget demonstrates its lack of journeyman without inspiration. A need to put anything in claustrophobic environments mannequins from the features of corpses if you already did the first time with a different spirit Jaume Balagero or rely on a computer graphics so invasive in the second part as to diminish even the good things seen in the first section of the film. Yet at the beginning the idea was touched it was a good remake, able to bring in the West Eastern moods of ghosts as they did in the past with excellent results Takashi Shimizu with "The Grudge 2" and above all with his Verbinski " The ring ". The first part, contaminated by "Final Destination", with the original idea of \u200b\u200banimating the visions of the future victims of mobile phone and dead larvae, is also the best. Then everything falls into deja vu and if you have a model Miike can not help but fall his arms when the scenes are presented in so sloppy. To give an example please to the sequence of exorcism on TV as it is conceived in the original model and as it is "thrown away" in the remake. No need to place every two to three a crucifix to remind us that if we in the West then the soul of the film is a thousand uncertain limbo. The actors are a dog most of the other starting with the impersonator of Ben Affleck, Edward Burns, until the unfulfilled promise Sossamon, now subscribed to the horror of low alloy ("Catacombs" at all). Vallette tries to quote most disastrously in Silver moments culminating in a pathetic tribute to the final stage "Opera" and "Inferno." Of course without the appropriate music of Goblin or Emerson. If you really want to see "The call" look at the original in this meal to let some poor unfortunate who does not read "Cangaceiro" and our advice.

Andrea Lanza