Nice effects though.

A different way of telling a story

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

One Missed Call does not suffer from really poor acting or bad special effects. In fact, this movie has some really creepy visuals and a pretty cool premise. However, it suffers because the writing is awful. They treat the audience like a bunch of 5-year-olds and spell simple plot points out so we can understand what is going on. Then it moves along in a series of disjointed scenes while giving us no real emotional connection to the characters - so we really don't care when they're killed off.

Mercifully this slog put a death knell in the Asian horror remake craze that went for about six years. Sadly this Asian horror boom took a hit because of the interior American remakes galvanizing the marketplace at the time. While there are certainly good horror movies from Japan, Tawain, and the like, their increasing popularity in the early 2000s was set back by audiences tiring of Hollywood flooding theaters with rotters like One Missed Call. I read that the director didn't watch Miike's film nor would he allow the cast to, either. He should have...he could have used some pointers. Shannyn Sossamon is a pretty and emphatic actress but she has a lot of unflatteringly bad CGI, poorly orchestrated paranormal shenanigans, bland characterizations from actors undermined by underwritten victim friends, and boring plot (not to mention a dud of a reasoning behind why the phone terror takes place, a chain of future death messages to Sossamon's friends involving a fire at St Luke's, a nagging ringtone that is about as obnoxious as the jingle of Silver Shamrock from Halloween III, possible abuse towards a girl which could result from the mother or her asthmatic sister, cop Ed Burns' sister who was a nurse that knew a blond child with knowledge of the possible supernatural culprit, and a "nanny cam" hidden in a teddy bear) to work opposite, stranding her in a barren wasteland of bad, soulless crud.Somehow the phone ghoul can make windows break, push a victim into an oncoming train, cause a beam to impale a victim thanks to a construction disaster (what is this Final Destination???), use a knife to stab a victim through a door, strangle a victim in a church after causing statues of Jesus and Mary to come alive to spook her, and leave behind marbles in the victims' mouths. If this was shot tongue in cheek perhaps there might be some fun to be had, but this is all serious and empty. The thing about Miike is his films are made with a sense of jolly madness, and there's heart behind his direction. This Hollywood cash grab is DOA from the get-go. Meagan Good is dragged into her pond by a hand where she quite literally swims with the fishes. It isn't imaginative or shot with any flair. This film is just a dead fish flapping out of water, sucking air.

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.

I see bad reviews, everywhere. and i really don't know why. quick simple review here, im not a massive fan of horror movies. but my girlfriend is, she watches them all the time, and after seeing this movie (don't know even why i decided to put it on to watch it) i am actually happy i did. I am going to recommend it to her, as i am very excited to see what she rates it. the suspense was there, i got scared, and that ringtone freaked me out. seriously i was just waiting for my phone to call mid movie. luckily it didn't. look its no "ring", but hey, its worth a shot. i watched it at night, alone, pitch black room with surround sound. and yes i got scared, goosebumps at parts. good movie. not great but good.5.5 /10