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Title: One Missed Call 2 (2006) |
Review of One Missed Call 2 Double-Disc Special Edition
- The One Missed Call curse has become an urban legend in Tokyo. Your cell phone rings with a chilling tone. Your violent demise is heard on the other end. Moments later, you die a horrible death. However, the curse has mutated to fool a wiser public and reach a broader audience. The curse indiscriminately infects anyone who answers and then works its way through every number in your phone book. Trying to solve the mystery, a couple of friends and a journalist trace the lineage of the curse to Taiwan. Once the origins are discovered, it's a race against time to put an end to the horror.
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Comments for One Missed Call 2
- Posted on 2008-04-29
One missed Call 2
One Missed Call 2 was not the best the American version much more intense.
We watched it all the way through so there are some good parts.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2007-09-15
Good but not as good as the first
This sequel is good, but not as good as the first. This was worth every penny. I can't wait until the third comes out on DVD!!!!
Score: 4
- Posted on 2007-05-12
One missed opportunity.
One Missed Call 2 (Renpei Tsukamoto, 2005)
It seemed, for a while that every movie Takashi Miike released added more weight to the hypothesis that Miike is currently Japan's greatest living director. Now we have a new line of evidence: sequels of Miike's films, directed by people other than Miike, are simply not as good.
Horror director Tsukamoto (no idea if he's any relation to Shinya) turns in his second feature, which adopts the tactic of "take the basic premise of the original film and build on it until it's outrageous." Here, the same mode of death is offered up (people get calls on their cell phones from themselves in the future, and soon die in the prophesied way), but this time, the virus causing the rash of deaths burrows into the contact lists on everyone's cell phones, soon leading to an epidemic of deaths all across Southeast Asia. A trio of main characters-- the daughter of one of the victims, the daughter's boyfriend, and a plucky reporter (there must always be a plucky reporter) try to figure out where the calls are coming from, and why. It's a pretty hackneyed plot, but in more capable hands, it could have at least been slick. Here, it's just tedious. There are some interesting twists at the beginning, but nothing ever comes of them, and the plot descends into predictability and excuses to pull out the special effects budget. Stick with the original. **
Score: 2 - Posted on 2006-12-05
Decent Film: Not As Good As The First!
I recommend that you watch the first film "One Missed Call" to get a better understanding of this film. The first film was directed by Takashi Miike, which made it a much better film with him behind the lens. However, this sequel is not a bad film, and if anything it is a cut above many in the genre. One year after the events of the first film, which witnessed the death on television of one of the cursed individuals, the legend of the cursed cell phone call has reached legendary status.
In this sequel, two friends, Kyoko and Madoka, both elementary school teachers find themselves thrown into the latest round of the ominous ringtones, and enigmatic voices of themselves calling on the other end. Also, a psychic detective, Takako, whose sister was a victim of the curse years ago, and Detective Motomiya [who was in the first film] try and uncover the curse, and what is behind these strange calls. This leads them all to Taiwan in order to put an end to the curse. Not great, but not bad either. Worth a watch. [I own the DVD].
Score: 3
- Posted on 2006-09-13
It's for you, again
You just can't keep a good curse down. Go through all the trouble of uncovering and pacifying the vengeful ghost in "One Missed Call," and she just pops up again. This time in Taiwan.
One year after the events of the first film. Due to the live television death that occurred in "One Missed Call," the cursed telephone message has acquired an urban legend status, with an added element of a young girl who whispers into the phone "Let's play," and then stitches your lips together if you refuse. Two friends, young Elementary school teachers Kyoko and Madoka, get drawn into the next round when their phones ring with the familiar ringtone and they hear their own doomed voices calling from the future. Into the mix are a psychic detective, Takako, who lost her twin sister to the curse years ago, and Detective Motomiya, from the first film, who have both been actively investigating the curse. The trail leads past Mimiko, the antagonist of the first film, to Taiwan, where it is found that Mimiko was only the latest carrier of the long running curse. Off they to Taiwan, seeking the originator of the curse, hoping to put her to rest and end it forever.
"One Missed Call 2" is a horror movie sequel, and that alone should let you know that it isn't going to be a stunning work of originality. The first film was directed by auteur Takashi Miike, and his original touch raised it up from mediocre to being decently scary. This sequel, however, is directed by Renpei Tsukamoto, whose experience is limited to television and he has brought with him mainly TV actors looking to make a feature film. Tsukamoto plays off of other, more successful Asian horror films, and it shows that he doesn't have a lot of confidence or personal vision. He does solve the mystery of the ending of "One missed call" in an inventive way, which was surprising.
However, if you aren't hunting for a towering work of genius, and just want to watch a good atmospheric horror flick with some good chills and a genuinely scary ghost, then "One Missed Call 2" has what you need. It is certainly better than standard slasher fare and scarier than most Hollywood ghost films.
Score: 3
