Release date: 20th September 2013
Top billing: Halle Berry, Evie Thompson, Abigail Breslin
A 911 operator takes a life altering, emergency call from a
teenage girl that is about to be kidnapped and so begins a race against time to
save her.
I sat down expecting an action thriller and it started well
enough, we saw a previous call that led to the death of a young girl and the
operator is now in a position to save a teenage girl caught in a deadly game. I
like the premise that the girl was in constant contact with the operator and it
created the tension that drove the film. That said, as time passes you have to
think why the operator makes the decisions she does. I know if they didn’t make
stupid decisions the film would be very short, but in this kind of film where
it is supposed to be gritty, realistic I just kept thinking why. Why would you
do that and not speak to the police at the scene or lose your phone at the most
inopportune moment and then the end ...
The acting wasn’t bad, nothing special and it came across as
a run of the mill thriller. Not one that I will be revisiting.
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