Unknown Caller (2014)

Wonderfully offbeat film!

one of my absolute favorites!

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This has got to be one of the more insanely bad films I've ever seen, which is saying a lot. The plot holes are Grand-Canyon-sized and the acting is pretty awful, with the exception of the 7-year-old girl, who is quite good. The female lead has a terrible time suppressing her British accent when the tension rises. And half the moments she should look horrified, she has this odd little smile on her face instead. The male lead is at least pleasant to look at, but pretty wooden.The cinematography is pleasing and the production design not bad at all, although the horrible CGI is intrusive during a pointless car chase sequence and an explosion. But the script and direction, oh my God- just beyond belief. The violent moments are uniformly inept in their cutting. Continuity and logic problems are so numerous and glaring that you can't even count them. To take only two:-how does the poor dude who gets shot early on, and looks near death when they drag him inside, then grow stronger and more robust the more blood he loses? the way this character figures out where the perpetrator might be is laughable enough, but OK, he is 1.7 miles away. Then the main character has to go on a frantic solo car "chase" that appears to traverse most of downtown Birmingham and involves going down the wrong direction of one-way streets into traffic for at least 1.7 miles??? Ludicrous.The way Aasim and Jill eventually get out of the house is so elementary and stupid that you can't believe he hadn't thought of it earlier. I just hope the 7-year-old gets some other roles because she has potential :)

The story focuses on a family who has a well advanced security system and a man, who is the unknown caller, placed a bomb under the house. The main theme of this movie is that the father (David Chisum) needs to answer the unknown callers question of Who Am I? This is a slow paced movie as it takes too long to get to a point for example after the unknown caller kills the cat, the father drinks water, then sleeps. I understand that everyone needs to drink and sleep. But I found that in thriller movies I'll rather try and figure out how to solve this situation. Then waste time. Like when he tells his wife there is a bomb she smiles. There is more relationship drama than anything else. I think this movie is better if you have a flu and just you want something to help you fall asleep.

I found this film riveting overall and, for the most part, fast moving. The story is direct, plausible, and easy to follow. The acting was very good all around. The score was appropriate while not overwhelming. The cinematography was quite good. The special effects were adequate. Frankly, the limited blood and gore were refreshing - I watch a film to be entertained, not grossed out. I rate a film on it's story line, delivery, production values, and overall quality. This film performs well in each category. Comparing one film to another I'll leave to others. Overall, a worthwhile and entertaining thriller. Recommended! - Erick Erickson

Awful is putting it politely. The worst acting, the worst directing the worst actors, the worst script, the worst special effects, the worst sound dubbing, the worst lighting, the worst make up. If there was an award for the worst of everything this movie would win in all categories. From start to finish, the entire movie doesn't make sense. A guy who works for an organization that does fracking in Oregon is being threatened by some unknown computer hacker guy on the other end of a cellphone, who turns out to be some dude he was mean to in high school? Who then kidnaps his daughter and dies at the end, because somehow the seemingly inescapable house is escaped by his friend and his estranged wife and kills the guy in an unexplained plot twist? Its like the whole movie is a big middle finger to the industry. As if to say "Look how badly we can waste your money!" This "film" shouldn't be watched by anyone and the director should kill himself.