Fatal call

Mckenzie 2022-12-30 00:45:25


First of all, no one can question the lineup of this movie. Although the director Todd Williams is less famous. Before that, only "Ling Dong·Ghost Record 2" had a little popularity. Most of the others were unheard of, but the actors and The lineup of the script is very eye-catching. Samuel Jackson, whether it’s the three collaborations with Quentin, the recent director of the detective and the villain in "Ace Agent", have shown his superb acting skills. In fact, he and Will Smith are in my heart. The status is similar, basically tied for the list of black actors currently active on the movie stage; John Cusack, a "Fatal ID" is enough to take a picture in film history, and "2012" also has a good performance, but Roland ·Compared with Edward Norton's acting skills in Emmerich's "The Day After Acquired", Cusack is indeed a bit inferior, and the feeling of movies like "Lion Falling from the Sky" is mostly a sense of existence; Isabella Fuhrman, if you have watched "Orphan Grudge", you should never forget this little girl. That is really unparalleled acting. At the age of 12, she plays a perverted woman in her 30s, and her acting skills abuse countless adult actors ( In order not to be black, I don’t mean to point anyone at all.) There can be such acting skills among child stars. I only serve three. The other two are Hailey Joe Osment from "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural" and "Hide and Seek." Dakota Fanning from here. Unfortunately, her acting skills in "The Hunger Games" are mediocre, and there is no outstanding performance in this "Fatal Call". The biggest cast is the script. This movie is a remake of Stephen King’s novel. Based on this alone, I believe that countless people will flock to it. After all, Stephen King is too great, and the movies based on his novels are also real. Too classic: "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick, "Shawshank's Redemption" by Frank Darabont, "The Mist" by David Fincher, "Mind Game", etc.
So, with such a strong lineup, it's a bit unreasonable to shoot like this. The script satirizes human beings’ dependence on mobile phones, so at a certain moment, all people using mobile phones are transformed into zombies-like existences by a certain sound at the same time. I have no objection to this setting, but at least until the end of the film, you have to make it clear why such a thing happened. It is a conspiracy theory that a certain terrorist created a frequency of sound to control people. Edit, however, no, and at the end it didn't make it clear what was going on. After that, the three main protagonists dreamed of a cartoon character drawn by Cusack at the same time. Later, the man in the red hoodie also appeared twice, and then there was no more...What does this mean, brother? This character is called Dreamwalker, so it can penetrate into the human brain? What does it have to do with mobile phones turning people into zombies? Why did he materialize again later? There was no explanation, it was a big hole. At the end, Cusack's son has also become a zombie, why can he still talk? Why was he able to use other people's flesh to spread the voice before? After Cusack blew himself up with the zombies, the scene suddenly showed him taking his son for a walk. I can understand it as his vision, but in the next shot, what does it mean that he also turns into a zombie and walks in a pile of zombies? ? Did it blow up or not? There is no explanation for these movies. Not only that, but this movie has many pitfalls. You only need to watch it to know it, and you can't fill it in at all.
In this case, I can only make a few guesses. The movie must have satirized humans' dependence on mobile phones, so there is a scene at the end of a lot of zombies surrounding the signal tower, which may also be an expression of someone using the signal tower to control them. When these people fall asleep at night, they play some kind of music like the audio function of mobile phones, which should imply that humans have become mobile phones, but this does not explain why they go crazy during the day. In the film twice, the voice of Cusack’s son was heard from the zombie group. It should be an allusion that Cusack did not go home all the year round. His son communicated to him through a human microphone, so the son was the instigator? It's so cruel to make the fucking like that. Zombies will be quiet at night, which may imply that humans are now playing with mobile phones all the time except for sleeping, which means they are going crazy. Burn them all to death with gasoline. It should be those people who can't understand these (such as our parents) have been fantasizing, let you play with mobile phones, let you play with mobile phones endlessly! As for plots like the heroine who killed her own mother in order to save her life to show the selfishness of human beings, I won’t repeat it. This movie is far from reflecting on human nature.
In terms of acting and stunts, it is basically a pitfall. Those zombies who roll their eyes are called cell phone lunatics in the movie. Please, be professional. Let’s see what the zombies in "Resident Evil" look like, see what the zombies in "The Walking Dead" look like, and then look at you. There are also a few blasting scenes. Brother, Flash animation or something should be overdue. Could you please make it more troublesome? Otherwise, your movie really won't have anything to watch.
Finally, I would like to mention my views on similar movies. This content is easy to be hacked. If you are a fan of David Lynch, please close it here. I admit the status of David Lynch. I often discuss movies like "Mulholland" and "The Wizard of the Wild" with my friends, but I really don't like this kind of trickery. Just like the reason why Vinci fans and Lynch fans always fight, you have to be suspenseful, you can be suspenseful, but in order to make people incomprehensible and make them incomprehensible, it doesn't make sense to me. The reason why Vinci's movie is so good is that after making the suspense to the extreme, the answer is heartily told at the end. Although Cusack's "Fatal ID" is not explicit, it is also fully revealed, and Lynch It’s a rather simple story. "Mulholland Road" repeatedly spliced ​​dreams and reality, so that you guess it makes sense to guess, and there is a point in which it burns brains for the sake of brain-burning. Fortunately, Lynch can use this technique to the extreme and tell the story completely, but those who learn from him have a lot of things taken out. When many so-called suspense film directors make movies with four differences, they say "it’s just because the audience’s IQ is low and they can’t understand it." It’s a bit like some Chinese directors say that they are making literary films when they make bad films, and the audience’s appreciation level is low. . It's disgusting. I don’t know if Todd Williams imitated Lynch. Whether or not, this movie is bad enough. If not, Lynch, you always have a bad head.

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Cell quotes

  • Tom McCourt: Clay, I'm really sorry about your family.

    Clay Riddell: Don't be sorry because there is nothing to be sorry about yet.

  • [last lines]

    Johnny Riddell: What's the name of the place we're going?

    Clay Riddell: Canada.