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The Call: At first glance, this seems like just another poor choice by Halle Berry, whose game work in
Cloud Atlas represents just a blip on a radar filled with crummy genre thrillers. And this may well be a crummy genre thriller; it looks like the fun, mostly forgotten 2004 thriller
Cellular crossed with one of those icky serial killer movies that pretends to be higher class than a
Saw sequel but isn't, like
Untraceable. But it is directed by Brad Anderson, who made
The Machinist and
Transsiberian—so maybe, like the late David Ellis showing off his best work in
Cellular, he'll turn genre junk into something taut and thrilling. It sure didn't happen with Berry's
Perfect Stranger or
Dark Tide (both from directors who scored in the past)... but maybe she's due for a win?
