Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
15 Mar 2013
fresh:
Let's call The Call what it is: high quality trash that both diminishes and is redeemed by all the talents who have deigned to bring it to life.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar 2013
rotten:
Crude as it is, The Call milks its jump scares and don't-go-down-to-the-basement tension for all they're worth. See it with a full house, if you absolutely must see it at all.
– Sam Adams,
Time Out New York,
19 Mar 2013
rotten:
Just when the movie has us in its grasp, the script falls to pieces and turns into a crass female-in-peril button-pusher.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
17 Sep 2013
fresh:
This is a cleverly made, smartly written, totally satisfying armrest-gripper.