People
are mysteriously receiving messages on
their cell phone voice mail from their
future selves in the form of the sound of
them reacting to their own violent
deaths, along with the exact date and
time of their future death, listed on the
message log.
Someone named Yumi (Kou Shibasaki)
receives a call from her friend named
Yoko (Anna Nagata) as she falls off an
overpass by a mysterious force then
killed by a train.
Also, Yumi experiences her other friend
Kenji (Atsushi Ida) mysteriously being
killed as well.
She talks to her friend Natsumi (Kazue
Fukiishi) about what is happening and
suddenly Natsumi gets a picture message
of what is going to happen to her so
everyone in their will tries to help her
by being on a show to find out what is
going to happen but it may be too late
for her.
A story which is
almost similar to Ju-On
but in much better style. I have enjoyed
Japanese movies if they have good taste
and this one does really well.
The overdubbed english doesn't sound
phony or off key which I will give great
credit for.
It is quite creepy and disturbing with
flashback sequences and sometimes you're
a little confused with the plot but the
story keeps going strong with all the
frights.
It's a little
difficult to tell how the acting is as
it's english overdubbed by Japanese
language but everyone seems to pull their
weight and energy quite well in this
piece.
Kou
Shibasaki seems to do well as the
surivor of the film trying to find out
how to save anyone else from being killed
with the missed call. She puts alot of
energy into her role.
Shin'ichi
Tsutsum also looked good in his
performance trying to help out and acting
adventureous.
Kazue Fukiishi was also building
herself well with her character by being
scared by what's going on.
There is a corpse of a
woman in a mortuary lying on a mattress
with her breats fully revealed.
There is a chopped off arm
lying near a railroad track holding a
cell phone.
Takashi Miike
delivers alot of scares with his
direction making it suitable to watch for
everyone.
There's nice shots on supporting actress Anna
Nagata walking by an overpass at
night and then we see some metal objects
from the overpass snapping. Plus a good
and spooky camera shot zoomin in on her
and she reacts well when she turns around
to scream.
We have a nice and creepy dialogue
between Kou Shibasak and Shin'ichi
Tsutsumi when they discuss the
strange calls and look at the pic of
their cell to see a future murder that
well happen to one of them and have great
freaked out expressions.
There's a nice shot on Fukiishi when her cell
rings and she looks scared and then
screams uncontrollably after seeing what
number it is.
We see nice dialogues sequences with the
lead actors Kou Shibasaki and Shin'ichi
Tsutsumi as they both seem to work
off well with one another to discover the
missing calls that everyone is getting
killed from.
Fukiishi was performing wonderfully
during an onset at a studio being
broadcasted with the surroundings of her.
There is a good shot of her being up
close from the camera and behind there's
supporting actress which I believe is
played by supporting actress Kumiko
Imai peeking by a corner about to be
doing her evil deeds.
Fukiishi reacts well when
she is tortured to death when her body
parts slowly starts to snap and great
wide eyed expressions on Shibasaki when
this happens.
Miike also directs real
disturbing flashback scene's which makes
it almost hard to watch as well as making
you cry.
Shibasaki does well by falling
back and a nice and spooky shot on Imai
in a cupboard slithering away.
We have great shots on Shibasaki wandering
the hallways trying to explore an
abandoned mortuary which has a cold and
silent feeling to the picture.
In the hallway of the mortuary there's a
great shot on Shibasaki walking
and then Imai walking upside
down running towards her.
We also spot a great shot on a cell phone
ringing on some sort of a tabletop and
Shibasaki peeking her head up looking
paranoid and really knew how to trip out
after she discovers on what it says on
her display about her going to die in
less than a minute.
There's a good jumping moment when she
approaches Imai's ghoulish corpse and her
hands aim at her.
A nice shot on Imai slowly
walking towards Shibasaki with
her arms coming towards her about to
strangle her.
There is a nice and touching moment
between the two of them later on which
gives the setting a change of thought.
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