I've nothing positive to say about this crud: it fails in ALL areas. I gather the producers could not afford any lights, as most scenes are in almost total darkness. Ridiculous, pathetic. Not worth a moment of your time. I found no suspense, no real fear, nothing clever, nothing new or exciting ~~ just a lousy 4th-rate attempt to ape a western movie, with disastrous results. The rating in excess of 6 which this flick currently enjoys on IMDb must be due to reviews by cast & crew members and by persons who are entranced by ANY eastern movie however atrocious....................... AVOID !

I went into One Missed Call expecting that it was going to be another terrible chapter in Japanese copycat horror films. My hopes were raised when I saw Takashi Miike in the opening credits (longtime fan, didn't know this was one of his).Midway through the movie, my expectations were rising. It was actually good! There was a deep central theme, the story was carried out well, the pacing was good, the characters were accessible and believable, and it was damn scary. For a campy horror flick about cell phones, there was a lot of refinement.The reason I didn't rate it higher was that it had some obvious flaws. For one, it was longer than it needed to be. A campy horror flick is, after all, a campy horror flick, and doesn't really need to be two hours long. Also, the ending threw me for a bit of a loop, but I won't spoil it.Watch it for yourself, preferably in high-def and with the lights out. Seriously scary.

Not the first and certainly not the last in a long, long, (very long) line of Japanese horror 'creep' flicks, "One Missed Call" was not one I anticipated to be much really. The premise is awfully teenybopper: a strange voicemail message on your cell phone tells you when you will die. Somehow I felt like this must have been done before. But not like this guy did it...It takes a lot to creep my out and Takashi Miike managed to do it pretty well in the final twenty minutes of this movie. The setting becomes extremely scary and the jumpouts are not typical; they don't really build up, they just seem to come out of nowhere.My only complaint with this film is that it never really ties itself up into a neat little package in the end; it's a little convoluted as to why certain people are connected to the original death. Without giving anything up, I'll just say that I was a bit perplexed.I have to ask: who thinks it's a smart idea to keep remaking these awesome Asian horror flicks and dumbing them down with Americanized garbage? Are we really that lazy that we can't read subtitles? And if so, why not just watch the dubbed version? I just don't get it! "One Missed Call" is one that should not be missed by horror buffs. I liked it.8 out of 10, kids.

While in a bar with her friends, the teenager Yoko Okazaki (Anna Nagata) receives a call in her cellular with a voice mail from the future telling the date and time when she would die. On the next day, Yumi overhears a group of students talking about the urban legend that people connected in the address book of cellular are mysteriously receiving phone calls with date and time of their death in the near future. In the precise informed hour, Yoko is attacked by a supernatural force in a train station while talking to her friend Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) by phone and dies with severed arm and leg. Yumi seeks out Kioto's boyfriend Kenji Kawai (Atsushi Ida), who also received a call, and witnesses his death in an elevator shaft. When her roommate Natsumi Konishi (Kazue Fukiishi) receives a call, Yoko befriends Hiroshi Yamashita (Shin'ichi Tsutsumi), who tells her that his sister Ritsuko (Azusa) that worked in the Child Guidance Center with abused children was the first victim of the phone call. While in the hospital, Yumi hears an asthma pump and recalls that she heard the same noise when Kenji died. They decide to investigate victims of asthma in the hospital and find the name of Marie Mizunuma and her daughters Mimiko and Nanako. They search the family together trying to save Natsumi from her fate."Chakushin Ari" is scary like most of the Asian horror movies, and has a promising beginning supported by a great acting and a good plot. However, the last quarter of the movie is confused, not clear, needing interpretation; therefore, the screenplay writer Minako Daira or the cult director Takashi Miike or both failed since they were not able to transmit a clear conclusion of the story to the audience. I glanced in IMDb the most different interpretations for the end of the story to ratify my opinion. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Ligação Perdida" ("Missed Call")