Review of The Phone

The Phone (2015)
1/10
Embarrassingly bad, derivative, cliche-fest
10 December 2023
Utterly trite, shallow, uninvolving and almost totally incoherent Korean movie taking its cue from the worst Harrison Ford / Liam Neeson spouse-murder-chase movies, a formula so bad that no one thought it could be further dis-improved by adding the conceit of frankly ludicrous parallel time zones, bad guys that are so obvious from their first appearance on the screen that you'd wonder why the police don't live outside their homes, and, as if the formula wasn't bad enough, a chase through a lantern-filled street carnival and the obligatory cutesy love scene between the (in this case dead) wife and the (haunted) husband trying to avenge her death. All together in a blender of bad weather and cliched showdowns, this adds up to a complete mess of badly directed, badly performed derivative garbage. An embarrassment from start to lament finish.
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