The question “911, what is your emergency?” is the most often heard in the hive, place where begins and largely develops The Call (2013) a film that hooks you from start to finish, it has good performances and a very interesting story, therefore, I can grade this film with five stars but there is a detail that I do not like and for that reason my final grade for this movie are four stars and later I am going to explain that detail that lowered its rating, in my understanding. This film tells the hard work carry out by a 911 phone operator named Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) who every day must be able to handle with different emergency calls, some of them with minor content and the others are real intense and dangerous. In one …show more content…
I have only words of praise for the direction of Brad Anderson. His development behind the scenes has been exemplary. He moves the camera superbly, and that generates moments of real tension on screen and engages the viewer in this insane race against time in most of the film. He uses many close up shot in the faces of the operator and the victim in order to see the fear in their eyes, also he uses a lot of overhead shots to see the avenues where the persecution of the murderer is performed. The cast performances excel in The Call. Halle Berry gives a great job with her performance, giving a lot of credibility to her character. She really takes seriously her performance and gives us excellent scenes operating the 911 calls, showing her gestures and feelings so now we know what an operator can feel in real life in these extreme situations. This cast is very talented because besides Berry, flashes Abigail Breslin and Michael Eklund who impregnates the entire rage and confusion to the psychopath that we need to detest throughout the projection. This film has a plot that since it starts there is no breath, all it is about as far as go the responsibility and the involvement of these anonymous voices that, second by second take those desperate