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The Call

The Call picks up in the LAPD 911 emergency response centre. This static location affords a voluminous amount of close up and personal face time with Halle Berry and the camera can do nothing but adore her despite the worlds most unflattering ‘fro. She’s Jordan Turner, a calm and collected 911 operator until six months ago when a panic stricken teen (Evie Thompson) begged for help while home alone with an intruder gaining access to her house. Jordan’s trauma following her inability to successfully handle the situation lands her on indefinite light duty. However when a neophyte operator gets in over her head Jordan has to jump into an identical abduction situation. Now she’s dealing with a mobile and hysterical sixteen year old Casey Welson (Abigail Breslin) trapped in the trunk of a mid sized Toyota driven by her merciless captor (Saskatoon’s Michael Eklund). It doesn’t take long for Jordan to get her head levelled but as the abduction trail fluctuates from hot to cold the haunting outcome of the previous incident takes Jordan back and forth to the brink of losing it. For the most part the film is set in a high tech, high tension phone bank – a mostly untapped fountainhead of inspiration for a non stop thriller like this one. Why didn’t anyone think of this before? With only a modicum of disbelief suspended you’ll get significant seat edge hang time on this un-joy ride.

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