Long Distance (2005)

Amateur movie with Big budget

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The film sets up nicely with a misdialed phone call to a serial killer in progress. I like the idea because it is fresher than the "I know you are alone" call. However, in hind sight, this leads to the most probable ending (which the movie has) because otherwise the motive for the serial killer's pursuit could become far fetched and unlikely.The acting was okay. The driving force of the film is the desire to find the identity of the serial killer and the motive.There are definitely many areas for improvement including script, set, special effects and ambiance. There was a somewhat too light tone of acting; maybe if the script demanded it, it would not have seemed noticeable.

Just before the movie ends, the 'twist' really spoiled the fun. We've seen the killer that comes after the single white female. And the ones that phone them before entering the premises. It was quite good, except for the cop of which I first thought: is he the killer perhaps?No pretenses on the story or the acting, but man, I have to say again: what a bad twist - has been done so many times before. Many DVD's have alternate endings, it would have been so easy to add a satisfying one.The too sexy neighbor across the street, overacting all along. Loved the head actress by the way, and the scene where the cop pulls a gun in front of the opening elevator, and the old lady drops her groceries ;)

A dizzy girl gets calls from a serial murderer that send her from a moronic dumb blond (who can read), to a poorly acted and unbelievable anxious dumb blond, and then back and forth several times (with more incredulous screen presence in between). She is supported in our distress by what can only be described as cops worthy of a minor role in a TV soap as the dialogue blunders on and on, and we wonder if this rubbish will ever end.When that end comes, albeit with a weak twist, we are left feeling neither scared, sympathetic nor interested (or any other emotion apart, perhaps, from dismay). It turns out the whole first 1hr20 of the film were delusions and that the serial caller/killer is actually a voice in her head that helped her kill her boyfriend and his lover. The last 10 minutes attempts to tidy up the mess already made by rearranging all the previously unbelievable characters (from the delusion) as newly unbelievable characters in the 'real world'.The only point at which Monica Keena became a believable character as at the end in her catatonic state, lying still and staring blankly into space seemed to come naturally (perhaps this is what got her the job on the casting couch), although, to be fair, perhaps it was just an inept director and pathetic script that made her so bad.No attempt was made at any point to get us engaged with the actors or the plot and whilst 'the clues were there' as to the outcome, by the time the twist came we no longer cared. This could be a high school production.

I saw the premier show of Long Distance in NY. I am not an enormous fan of suspense/thriller movies, however I found this one to be spot on. The ending took me entirely by surprise. I would rank the twist in the end to one of my all time favorites "The Usual Suspects". This is a movie you have to see again to determine what you missed the first time around. I will be looking for this movie to come to Boston so I can see it again. The length of the movie seemed about right, I didn't find myself looking at my watch at any point during the show. I found it interesting that the pool was not included in the original script and in the end it fit in so well with the story line. Great picture!