Those Who Call

I quickly grew tired of the bickering between the sisters. The Sandra character grated on my nerves like a spoiled brat and I wanted to slap her right off the TV screen every time she opened her mouth. If you're afraid of what might be out to get you in the forest then keep your voice down for crying out loud. She was so LOUD and all she did was gripe and blame, gripe and whine. I couldn't get through this movie to the end because Sandra was the most annoying character I have ever seen in a movie. I had to turn it off while they were still wandering around in the woods. The acting was amateurish and the storyline wasn't believable. Who in their right mind funds a movie like this?

There is so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to start. I guess the beginning is always as good a place as any.

We start out with a girl driving down a two lane highway, who then turns off on to a dirt road. She gets a call from her brother who asks her how far away she is. She says, not far... just six hours. SIX. HOURS. Where in the Continental United States do you EVER drive down a dirt road when you are SIX HOURS from your destination?

I'll try not to give anything away (not that there really IS anything to give away, but...) so... now we'll move on to the two sisters - the main characters. For 99% of this "movie", we follow thee two girls - and ONLY these two girls - around. For 95% of THAT time, these two are arguing and yelling at each other, or just generally whining. Half way through, I was HOPING they'd get it just to shut them up! The younger one especially!

As they are driving, one sister falls asleep (so we're told) and when she wakes up, she asks where they are. The other one tells her that she doesn't know, but that they are somewhere in Texas. In a car with a Texas license plate. So of COURSE they are "somewhere in Texas!" But she wasn't being facetious. She was serious. Even more odd though, is that when they stop for gas - at apparently the ONLY gas station in all of Texas - she says that they are just "passing through" on their way to... COLORADO! The only way that that makes sense is if they were coming from Mexico. Again... in a car with Texas license plates. And although the two girls are Hispanic, they speak perfect English and never once mention Mexico.

Oh.. and "perfect English." I don't know about you, but it just rubs me the wrong way when people who have lived in the US all their lives, who speak perfect English with no accent whatsoever, suddenly have an accent when they say certain words. Every time the older girl says her sisters name "Sandra," she suddenly develops a thick Spanish accent. My grandmother, who literally came over from Sicily, didn't talk like that and there is no reason for anyone to do that other than for "look at me" attention.

Ok... back on the road again... the two girls seem to take the same dirt road the first girl took, only to be back on the main two lane highway again. Before finding themselves BACK on another dirt road. :eye_roll:

All of that is bad enough, but the absolute lack of ANY real story is just beyond forgivable. We sat through this disaster of a "movie" and nothing was ever really explained. Dad? The ring? Colorado? The town? The people of the town? The wanted posters?...

There isn't a single positive thing that I can say about this train wreck. I know this is only 79 minutes long, but even THAT is way too long to waste watching this. Go outside and watch grass grow , instead. You will thank me later.

The acting of the two lead characters, is really, really awful. Though you can tell when watching, that they are really trying. That's where the 2 stars in my review came from. The plot is so tired and silly, and chock full of plot holes. I am astonished that I sat through this steaming pile, to the very end. The younger of the two sisters in the film, is a very convincing imbecile. She is such an immature brat, that you're hoping the older sister slaps her at any moment, but it never comes.

Unbelievably Bad Plot, Script, Acting, and Effects. I'd suggest sitting this one out. Unless you have 80 minutes to waste, on being irritated at the stupidity of this film.

I DO NOT believe that I have ever care any LESS that the two lead female characters live or die ever! They spend most of the movie fighting and arguing about how stupid the trip was, and it is SOOOO STUPID OF A TRIP that it's hard to care whether they live or die. As a matter of fact, I was rooting for them to get killed. On top of that, the actresses are so abysmal at acting and the dialogue is so repetitious of them whining about who is at fault. Just a TERRIBLE MOVIE THAT TAKES SOOOO LONG TO GET INTO ANY ACTION that you may have to watch it over a few sessions. I fell asleep the first time, got bored the second tie, and the third time...never finished this GOD AWFUL BORE.

Sometimes you just got to stop up and take heed from the low rating that a movie has managed to score here on IMDb. However, I opt to give a movie the benefit of the doubt, especially if it is something I haven't already seen, or heard about.

However, I found the movie's cover interesting enough, and since I hadn't already seen this movie, of course I opted to give it a chance.

Writer and director Anubys Lopez, aside from having a really cool name, didn't manage to do much of anything noteworthy here with "Those Who Call". The storyline in the movie was rather simplistic, and it might actually have worked out more if the dialogue wasn't so insanely repetitive and the characters were so amazingly unlikeable.

Actress Yetlanezi Rodriguez (playing Sandra) and Angie Sandoval (playing Ana) were given some very poorly written characters and dialogue to work with, and it just passed as being cringeworthy to watch the two characters bicker throughout the entire movie about how stupid their roadtrip was and how one doesn't have time for the other. And it was just like it was stuck in a loop, because the majority of the dialogue kept circling back to these topics.

Visually then "Those Who Call" was an okay movie. I mean, you're certainly not in for a top of the line over-the-top special effects galore here, but whatever effects were in the movie played out well enough.

If you enjoy horror movies, you need not waste your time, money or effort on "Those Who Call". Some of us did so you don't have to. Trust me, this movie isn't worth the effort.

My rating of "Those Who Call" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.