The idea of this is very similar to the grudge or just to another horror film that was already made at the time but I must put One Missed Call as something different and scary at times despite all its flaws and its terrible remake that should be left in the dark forever. If "One Missed Call" deserves any, then it's as a film that would be playing on someone's television within a film. Takashi Miike directed "Ichi the Killer" and "Audition". A ghostly virus that kind of spreads through cell-phones, however, does scare me but this film doesn't embrace the concept all that well. Word to filmmakers: dead people that spit out candy and admittedly cool but forgettable visuals DO NOT SCARE ME. The idea is pretty good- another smart techno-horror/thriller idea from Japan- but there's not much else to admire about the film. I didn't feel frightened after watching the film, and I found the plot to be unintentionally ludicrous. But it's hard to forgive a film that looks good, but can't scare you. This film is not poorly made, poorly acted, or even poorly written. At least SOME horror movies could keep me awake for more than 75% of the time, which is more time than most horror films have the potential to manage. It's a bore for the most part never doing much to shock, disturb, or surprise us. So much that I can't even recommend it to horror fans since this one might put a couple of them to sleep. This is admirable, and the film is at its best when it's not trying to be the creepy, effective horror movie that it just wasn't meant to be. I liked how this film used minimal gore, and didn't try to scare us in the cheapest of ways. The film often tries hard at a good atmosphere, and it almost creates one. This strikes our "characters" as particularly odd, and as with nearly all J-horror flicks, the story turns into a mildly entertaining, seldom engaging visual-trip that alas doesn't offer enough of a plot or enough of a visual-trip. The voice is that of their own but they are always in a dying or near-to-dying state. It's about a mysterious phone-call that people keep getting. This causes the admittedly ambitious premise to go to nigh complete waste, and this also causes Takashi Miike's "One Missed Call" to come a bit short when it comes to scares, entertainment, story, characters, or anything, for the matter. Here is a film that was almost on the good side of decent, but staggered right from the start.
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