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As someone who used to enjoy gaming a lot before the house was taken over by a wee one, I have to say, the kind of virtual reality shown in this movie seemed like a dream. Thing is, it very quickly turns into a nightmare. I can imagine most Gamers would enjoy the movie, even if it were only for the possibilities....

The movie follows a group of elite Gamers who are called up to try out a new virtual reality experience. When things quickly take a sinister turn, are the best-of-the-best good enough to finish the game?

I enjoyed The Call Up as I quickly became engaged with the characters. The acting was solid and the special effects were spot on. It takes you to the next level of game-play and makes you think about what we actually do in games when we're blowing each others heads off. There is a kind of predictability of sorts, but that would be nigh on impossible for this not to be the case and it's not as if the entire story is wide open.

The ending was a bit of an anticlimax, but in actual fact, this probably is a good thing given the mood of the movie.

I did enjoy the movie and would recommend it to any Gamers or avid movie watchers. It's never going to be a blockbuster or total crowd pleaser, but I didn't feel I'd wasted time by watching it (how I judge most movies) and I wouldn't be averse to watching it again. If you don't find the prospect of virtual reality intriguing or feel like gaming is for kids, then probably best to give this one a wide berth.

I love sci-fi that explores the human impact of developments in technology and the premise for The Call-Up promises plenty of that. How do different personalities react when they realise that the VR game they've been invited to participate in is more sinister than it first appeared?

Although this central dilemma is prominent in the first part of the film, once the plot gets going, the action leads and the pace keeps you engaged as the characters are forced to learn quickly and figure out whether to work together or turn against each other. The way that the film's perspective mirrors that of the protagonists as they switch between 'real' and 'virtual' is impressive and compelling to watch.

I would have liked to see a bit more focus on the psychology of the premise, but with a concept of this scope, there's only so much you can cover, and the action-movie elements win out. The effects are impressive for a low-budget debut and I found the acting convincing, although there isn't much nuance to the characters.

Worth a watch if you enjoy action films that make you think.

I'm a little stunned at some of the bad reviews this movies has had. It isn't that bad at all. It has it's typical character types for a movie of this type to give the story a bit of 'zap' and these characters emerge immediately. It's well done for a low budget movie, with good acting and directing ideas, and for once, I didn't pre-empt what the ending would be like. I was a little surprised, which doesn't happen often, yet viewers will determine the way the movie will go, as that is what it is..a game. I can tell you, there are some shocking movies out there that have ratings too high, with acting so laughable and the directing a nightmare to watch, yet this movie holds it own, actors and direction. See for yourself.

Well, I knew it was a long shot that a movie with under 20 reviews ( It has 29 at the writing of this) was an honest review. Friends of cast,cast, employees of production companies, etc. I get it though. A falsely inflated review get's you to spend that cash only to be face palming 2 hours later. The Cinematography was solid. No back yard iPhone movie here. The intro CGI was done well. The CGI in the movie was BAD...the acting was worse. Thee were 2 people whom could act, the others...just were bad. Right down to the final, badly written and poorly acted, scene The plot was as transparent as glass with nothing "Surprising" in the entire movie. In my day we would have called it a "Straight to video" movie. IMO, this should have been a straight to youtube movie.

I don't give this move a zero because I can't.

This movie is in plain terms, horrible. The script is horrible, the acting too, the whole thing is predictable. We were 3 persons watching it and we were all shocked by this movie, and the ending... No words.

If anyone sees this don't lose your time with this movie, no script, no good acting and the movie itself doesn't even explain what the hell is happening.

We waited for the end to explain something but not, it's just the simplest thing anyone could have thought. When the movie is running, you start thinking that it's going all to be a filler thing until in the end something's explained, but sadly not.

Just don't watch this thing, there are other interesting movies out there.

I watched it with another gamer and I have to say that we rather watch paint dry on a wall...

The acting is awful, the music sounds a lot like a suspense or horror movie from the 80's! Lousy for this age.

The only thing I liked was the suits. That's it!!

The trailer shows a promising movie but it sucked so much that right after the "game" starts I got so bored I almost felt asleep. I just watched it to see which lousy character/"actor/actress" survived.

As another reviewer said, the good reviews about this movie must be from friends/family/people that worked on the movie...because it really sucks. Too bad, the idea for the movie was good.

Am glad I watched this movie before reading reviews from this site!

As someone who is not usually much for action movies, but am a gamer and love technology, this movie was very intriguing and enjoyable.

While there may very well have been weaknesses in the film, by allowing myself to feel a part of the experience and engage what was presented, I found the movie to be very good.

I went in with no particular expectations, and walked away sufficiently happy with my viewing, even to the point of encouraging another friend to watch it as well.

Yes, the movie is a bit weak in the acting/story at times, and somewhat predictable. But, if you can watch it for what it is, and enjoy the unique aspects of the movie and set aside the points I mention above, you can also have a positive viewing of this movie.

The Virtual Reality aspect of this movie was what drew me to it, and the presentation of the VR was excellent to me. It looked cool and was believable.

Still find it hard to see why some people are rating this movie so harshly. Was it an Emmy winner? Um, no. Was it a nice sci-fi action flick with a VR twist worth watching? For me, absolutely!

I saw the film at a sci-fi festival and found the premise absolutely engaging. Without giving away too much of the story, this is one of those movies that grabs something familiar from the contemporary world and takes it to the extreme, with fascinating consequences. Mixing VR and reality is the holy grail of gamers, but the sort of scenario described here is chilling, to say the least. Funnily, the writer-director takes every trope of the first-person shooter and turns it into a clever detail. And that's where most of the fun comes from. The characters conveniently follow the group casting of any slasher, with all the classic types and a couple of surprises. Maybe I would have wished these characters to be a bit more explored and a little less action scenes, but you can't fault this film for doing what most FPS do! Good fun

TL;DR: This movie is an awful disaster; maybe barely a step above Christian YouTube cinema. It is an incomprehensible nightmare and I absolutely do not understand why anyone would honestly give it more than one star.

I don't write a lot of reviews, but I often come to this site to check out a user review of two. Based on the most recommended, with 10 out of 10 stars, I was quite hopeful. Abandon hope. That review must have been written by the producer, or whoever invested in this train wreck.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure this movie out. I'm not talking about the plot. I'm talking about the way they seemed to have chosen to spend the bulk of the money they raised on the FX. The actors-- I mean, the actors must have been volunteers. Every scene feels like a first take. The cinematography is equally abysmal. The CGI is really on-point, so it's a strangely confusing experience. Usually all the elements of a movie are somewhat on par with each other. Not in this movie. I have seen YouTube movies with better acting and camera work. It just doesn't fit with the FX and art direction.

OK on to the plot, and I promise no spoilers. Not a single moment is dedicated to the characters' different motivations. They seemed to be written as interchangeable line-delivery vehicles. Not that mysterious characters are necessarily a bad thing, if you write the story in such a way the character's individual stories emerge. None of that ever happens in this movie. I'm not even sure what particular stereotype or cliché you could possibly even attempt to attach to any of the characters in this thing. You can't even call them one-dimensional. They lack almost all dimension entirely. The robots in iRobot have more personality. Literally the most interesting thing about them is how it is possible to do that consistently that bad of a job delivering every line, and every action. The actual story line itself is not at all a terrible premise, it just couldn't have conceivably been executed more poorly.

The acting is so bad, the actors themselves seem to have trouble simply moving from one point in space to another. Literally all of their physical actions seems forced and awkward. I really try not to hate on any actors. Even if they aren't all Oscar-worthy, you can at least detect a measure of professional effort. Not with this group. Maybe the director is such an over-the-top weirdo the actors couldn't get comfortable in their own skin at any point during filming. Either that, or the editor deliberately and maliciously cut together all the worst possible takes. It really is that bad.

This is how I imagine production of this film went: The people who made this movie, except the CGI people, all wake up in a room together. They discover they all have amnesia; no memory of who they are or how they got there. The room is locked and they are trapped. Everything needed to make a movie is there in the room, along with a short note telling them they have 3 days to make a movie about elite gamers in a VR world or they would all be gassed to death. For reference, they are given the box to the first Halo game, a Green Lantern comic and a box of NES light guns. Since they have no memories, they just delegate all the different jobs including acting to whoever is willing to do it. That took two and a half days. In a race against time, they proceeded to use the last twelve hours to make this movie. Then they were freed and the footage given to some top-notch CGI company, then edited by Satan.

The absolute worst part, by far, is the clear lack of consulting from actual gamers. Rest assured no gamers were harmed in the making of this movie. The creators of this "movie" I think may have seen some video of a kid playing Call of Duty at Walmart and decided to make a movie based solely on that. On that note, I don't think they have ever even seen an actual movie-- not a whole one, anyway.

It's really not clear what the makers of this film know less about: gaming, or movies. It's a complete disaster, please don't watch it. I has literally no redeeming qualities.

Since IMDb is filled now with fake reviews and comments about this movie I feel compelled to write my opinion, trying to balance the force a little.

I tried the movie with my kid, I got the title and was very intrigued that it's gonna be an Occulus 3.0 experience or something of the sort.

I gotta say this, because this is a review and I'm gonna be honest, the premise was good, the first act (the preparation) was solid but the director slipped through it's fingers some errors that are worth checking.

First of all, this is a movie about Gamers that somehow are living in a future earth, so, they have super advanced smartphones and cards with screens but they somehow have video games with pre-xbox360 graphics (despicted on the game-play from the screen of one of the character's home).

The movie proceed then to a nice first act in which we see the Gamers prepping for the game. The offices, the suits and the helmets were a nice touch and I must say they were a good fit to the movie (if not one of the strongest points).

BUT As soon as the actions starts (the first 10 minutes of VR) you kinda see what the rest of the movie will be like.

The scenery is EXTREMELY limited, the script is non-existent, the "missions" stops being missions and starts being just "walk and kill", not a single video game of this era will support this kind of nonsense gaming, they need to have a plausible argument.

In this movie, the director switches the argument for the character development, he places all the stereotypical ones, the shy girl, the psycho, the ego-maniac fat guy who lives in the basement, the.. you get the point. Not a single stereotype was missing, this.. was not a good starting point, to be honest.

Since the movie is all about them, we get lost in a sea of corridors, switching from room A to room B and then to Room C, but then you kinda get the point. There is NO room D ! The whole movie is filmed in no more than 3 rooms, and 1 or 2 corridors with very poor scenery, they even had the guts to film several scenes with the same rooms in the same angle !. IF you're going to film a movie with few rooms at least try to switch angles.

Tip to the director: YOU CAN make a good movie with no scenery at all, I know you know because this movie seems to follow the same progression as the movie THE CUBE. Yes, you can bet. Those who saw the movie will see the similarities.

The ending was good but again, too similar to the movie THE CUBE.

For anyone reading this review, if you somehow liked the premise and you still didn't know what THE CUBE is, go watch it and you'll be amazed, that's a serious SCI FI horror movie worth of your consideration.

This movie could of been so much better if they hired better actors, Morfydd Clark was the only one doing a good job, all the rest was mediocre, being the guy who acted as "the Sargent" one of the worse actors I ever seen in my life.

Finally, I would not dare to speak too much about the music because I do really believe that the musician is just incompetent. Trying to make a soundtrack about a VR video game with CASIO tone music from the 80's is only gonna make Gamers more angry at you.

Gamers are not dumb stereotypes like the ones in the movie, that listen to CASIO tone music, stuck in a basement and still playing 1995 games. The world has changed, video game industry has evolved to a point in which soundtracks are becoming an essential part of any video game. I've seen incredible soundtracks from games where the budget was 3 times less than budget movies so this is really not an excuse to make an horrible soundtrack.

Talking about FX on this one is like talking about how does a video game looked 5 years ago, because, seriously, the CGI was so bad that my Xbox can render better in-game graphics than some of the scenes of this movie, specially the "exteriors". They could be avoided and we should of get a much better product. Bad FX tend to somehow hurt a movie much more than it should.

Good movies could be made with almost no special effects and there are plenty of examples out there. As a rule of thumb, if you're not going to produce an acceptable FX, it's better not to do it and hide it, it's gonna be a much better overall execution than to do it badly, tons of directors did great things following this path.

All in all, the movie premise was good, the execution was really poor, all the middle is just expendable material and the ending is good but since it's almost a ripoff from THE CUBE and others, it doesn't create a rewarding experience.

The only redeeming factors of this movie are: the first minutes, the concept, some bits of the ending and the legs of Morfydd Clark on that amazing suit, that's it.

The movie is a solid 3/10 If you somehow are a fan of budget movies, there are WAY better movies out there. You can start by watching Kill Command for example.

Gamers will hate this movie. Very poor acting. Script is totally full of mistakes. It is so bad that hard to criticize. Final scene is a disaster. It is very hard to say anything good about this movie. The only thing I liked is the subject of the movie, I hope one day a better director with better players and with a strong script we watch a better version of this movie.

I'm going to give this a nine to counteract the people who gave this movie low marks. This is an excellent psychological thriller with very original premise. The computer game scenario gave this movie the kind of freshness that The Matrix had. A fairly straight forward plot and limited dialogue it had the feel of a J.G Ballard novel, the director handled the whole 'alternative world encroaching on our so-called real world' context with style and focus. One barely felt the low budget. People who didn't like this film are clearly not very movie literate and have probably overdosed on Hollywood CGI monsters. Give this one a go, it deserves it.

Not being a snob about indies, I am always up to giving a low budget movie a chance. I thought I might like it due to the trailer , the premise and it being available brand new on ebay for 4-6 bucks brand new., Turns out I was right, I liked this a lot. No problems with the acting, the premise is great (a group of gamers sign up for a beta test of a virtual reality game which turns out to be a REAL and DEADLY "game" they have to survive to escape.. CGI surprised me that it looked fine, and there was a decent amount of tension, action and it kept my interest through-out. If you've ever wondered what playing Counter-Strike , Call Of Duty or Insurgency Sandstorm for real might look like, or how you'd react if you thought you were a bad azz gamer and found yourself playing it for real...well this movie was a very interesting "What if" presentation. If you're not a snob, give it a shot, Being a big gamer, I enjoyed it a lot. Glad to have bought it and didn't regret the 5 bucks at all.

Well shot and composed with good colors and contrast. Appropriate solid special effects and motion graphics, not over the top at all.

Yes these are aesthetic observations but aesthetics are important, especially in Sci-Fi. They're also the only good thing I can say about the movie.

Horrible acting and a horrible script. I don't know whats worse, the script or the casting. The stereotypes are also poorly written. For stereotypes. All the building blocks were there for something more coherent and edgy. A tighter script with some better casting could have turned this into a cult classic.

The missed opportunity is highlighted even more by the solid production work. Unfortunate.

A group of skilled video gamers are invited to try and test a new virtual reality video game. The prize? $100,000. Sounds easy and fun right? Well, things take a turn for worse when these players discover they will be fighting for their real lives.

This isn't just any video game.

The Call Up has a great idea for a film and... that's it. With the world of Video games getting bigger every day, including new VR technology on PS4, it wouldn't surprise me if one day we get to walk in a room, all wear helmets, run around and shoot each other.

But sadly as a film, we are viewing a hot mess. The title "The Call Up" makes no sense to me and doesn't relate to the film at all. Our characters are found in a room at the start of the film and that's all the development and emotions we are provided with. But that's ok, because with even little information to the audience, we can work out who is going to betray others in the team, who is going to win and the list goes on. The film carries one twist but it just doesn't make sense and doesn't add up.

The film's low budget also shows. I can be happy with poor effects and a low budget in a film. When the film has actors shoot at nothing and we are to assume they just shot someone down more than once, to me it can feel very empty and hollow. The film's soundtrack is also a disappointment. Consider it a down graded of Tron the soundtrack. A film which is set up in the present day, has a whole futuristic tone and it just doesn't work. The music also never stops or rests and tries way too hard to be present in every scene.

The Call Up does have a creative story that we would all love to see in a motion film. This type of film should be fun, fresh and suspenseful, but sadly it's anything but.

1.9/10 Walkden Entertainment