Yumi is a closed-minded and distrustful girl with a number of old traumas, a remnant of her past. One day Yoko, a friend of hers, receives a strange call on her cell phone: it is in fact from her own number but is dated two days into the future, and the voice of the ominous message left on the answering machine sounds exactly like the girl's. Two days later Yoko dies at the same time indicated uttering the same words as the message. It is clear that this was not a prank and seeing that other people around Yumi meet the same end in a chain (the victims are chosen from the dead person's address book), she tries to investigate so that she does not end up the same way. She will learn of a very sad story that, at the same time, has points in common with her own.
This is a film blatantly along the lines of "The ring," since very similar situations are proposed, changing only the medium the curse uses. Almost at the same time the Koreans had a very similar idea following the same thread with "The phone" (at this rate we may one day find a The fax in theaters as well).. The plot is complicated, as is the case with all oriental films, which prefer to blood a story that focuses more on the psychological and sentimental level but at the same time does not disappoint the viewer, presenting disturbing scenes and many twists and turns. The actors are cast quite well in the part and manage to be expressive. Film therefore discrete, from which was recently made the inevitable American remake "Unanswered Call," of course more than superfluous. Finale that leaves room for imagination and will be clarified only in the sequel.
Review by Ikariaki
