The premise is good: you have one missed call on your mobile phone. It has your own mobile phone number, that means you got a call from yourself! and it is dated three days in the future. Once the three days go by, you die of a mysterious accident. The killings are gruesome, and some scenes are very graphic. Director Takashi Miike knows how to scare audiences. His unusual style goes along the lines of new Japanese thrillers, but Miike is considered one of the best, if not the best of the bunch. The ending is hard to understand, as Miike always likes to confuse the audience at the very end, just when you think everything is pretty clear. I still recommend Yu-On, a far more scary film from Miike than this please-don't-let-my-mobile-ring-or-else-I-die movie. But this one is also worth watching.
17 January 2005
One missed call, Japan 2004
The premise is good: you have one missed call on your mobile phone. It has your own mobile phone number, that means you got a call from yourself! and it is dated three days in the future. Once the three days go by, you die of a mysterious accident. The killings are gruesome, and some scenes are very graphic. Director Takashi Miike knows how to scare audiences. His unusual style goes along the lines of new Japanese thrillers, but Miike is considered one of the best, if not the best of the bunch. The ending is hard to understand, as Miike always likes to confuse the audience at the very end, just when you think everything is pretty clear. I still recommend Yu-On, a far more scary film from Miike than this please-don't-let-my-mobile-ring-or-else-I-die movie. But this one is also worth watching.
The premise is good: you have one missed call on your mobile phone. It has your own mobile phone number, that means you got a call from yourself! and it is dated three days in the future. Once the three days go by, you die of a mysterious accident. The killings are gruesome, and some scenes are very graphic. Director Takashi Miike knows how to scare audiences. His unusual style goes along the lines of new Japanese thrillers, but Miike is considered one of the best, if not the best of the bunch. The ending is hard to understand, as Miike always likes to confuse the audience at the very end, just when you think everything is pretty clear. I still recommend Yu-On, a far more scary film from Miike than this please-don't-let-my-mobile-ring-or-else-I-die movie. But this one is also worth watching.
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