The Call

The Call

Rating 7 out of 10

This is a movie I really didn't want to see.  Wife and I do dinner and a movie with our friends once a month or so.  It was their time to pick the movie.  When I saw the trailer I thought it looked pretty stupid.  A whole movie on someone calling into 911?  I'm one of the few males on the planet that does not care for Halle Berry nor do I find her that attractive.   Yet I have to admit the movie was much better than I thought it would be.

Halle plays Jordan who has the tough job of an operator for the 911 call center at Los Angeles.  When Jordan takes a call from a young girl home alone having a bad guy breaking into her house.  When a possible mistake by Jordan plays a part in the bad outcome she takes it very hard.

Months later she is off the phones and has become a trainer when she ends up forced to take another abduction call  The girl is trapped in the trunk of a car with a cell phone that can not be traced.  Jordan comes up with some good ways to help them find the girl.  As a father of two girls my heart was breaking for this poor scared girl locked in the trunk.  The wife was chewing her fingernails off.

On the down side the last fifteen minutes are about as implausible as they could come up with.  The very ending made me say bad words toward the screen.  Still overall I thought it was an entertaining movie and worth the ticket price.