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A young woman is contacted by another woman over the telephone. And it turns out that she’s talking to the past because the woman she’s talking to is 20 years back in time. And the woman she’s talking to is in a way held captive in the house by her evil stepmother. The young woman who’s in the present has a painful past. She lost her father at a young age. And her mother has a brain tumor. The two young women try to help each other, but that’s something the young woman in the present will regret.
The Call is an entertaining thriller that at first feels quite generic if you have seen similar movies with characters that live in different time periods.
There have been several excellent movies in this genre, and at first, it doesn’t feel as if The Call will bring something new to the table. We expect that these two will help each other, and that they deserve help, and that they are both good and kind people.
But it turns out that The Call has something new to offer when it completely changes direction. Now I’m going to reveal who the woman in the past is, so I have warned you.
It turns out that the woman in the past is an insane woman who’s a serial killer. And every time the protagonist tries to clean up and change the past, she also has to pay the price when she collaborates with a serial killer. So there are several timelines here, and it’s fun and exciting to see what has changed when the protagonist wakes up in another timeline.
As for the ending, it is open to interpretation. I have two theories, but I can not say that I liked the ending. I felt it ruined a bit of the overall impression. I dislike it when a movie has two endings in the last minutes. It doesn’t feel natural in The Call.