Synopsis
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
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Cast
- Halle BerryJordan Turner
- Abigail BreslinCasey Welson
- Morris ChestnutOfficer Paul Phillips
- Michael EklundMichael Foster
- David OtungaOfficer Jake Devans
- Michael ImperioliAlan Denado
- Justina MachadoRachel
- José ZúñigaMarco
- Roma MaffiaMaddy
- Evie ThompsonLeah Templeton
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
An effectively creepy thriller about a 911 operator and a young miss in peril, The Call is a model of low-budget filmmaking. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The Call for the most part is a tense, extreme-jeopardy thriller that delivers the intended goods. - 50
Variety
There’s little to differentiate this high-pitched screamer from a particularly feverish “Law and Order” rerun. - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Rare is the thriller that goes as completely and utterly wrong as The Call does at almost precisely the one hour mark. Which is a crying shame, because for an hour, this is a riveting, by the book kidnapping. - 50
The A.V. Club
All that unsavory business aside, the biggest problem with the third act is how the film discards the novelty of its own premise in order to bring its star into the action. When Berry trades her headset for a rock, it’s the bluntest metaphor imaginable for a film that’s completely lost its mind. - 50
Boston Globe
You’ve seen pieces of this movie in “Psycho,” “Silence of the Lambs,” and 2004’s “Cellular.” Still, the early scenes in the Hive give The Call a needed novelty: It’s a workplace drama, and the work is responding to other people’s desperate worst-case scenarios. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
The film is at once shamelessly transparent, manipulative, and far-fetched, and impossibly suspenseful. You'll want to take a shower afterward - that's how icky you'll feel. - 50
USA Today
The action starts with a bang, but deteriorates and grows more absurd as the story strays farther from the LAPD call center.
