Don't Hang Up (2016)

the audience applauded

Simply A Masterpiece

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This movie has a great plot! Incredible ending! It makes you not sympathetic for the main characters cause the pranks they pulled are extremely below the belt. It's a classic prank gone wrong scenario with unimaginable consequences.

Well, luckily, I'm safe. I barely even answer a call when it's from anyone I know.Not intentionally, mind you. 99.1% of the time the sound is off on my phone and I haven't had a landline since 9/11. I digress. What was I here for? Oh, yeah, this crappy movie. Probably the 100th "Don't..." horror movie and it definitely rings true here.Pretty boys, make that adults playing teens (both leads were in their later 20s and it shows) are stalked by some guy who's playing God with their electronic devices one rainy night. Why is this grown man stalking these "Teen Beat Bait?" Not for the reasons I just put into your mind.These two are half of four disgusting "kids" who prank call people in horrific ways to get YouTube hits. Naturally. And now, the joke's on them!That sounded more dramatic and original in my mind before I typed it. My apologizes. It's just as bad and unoriginal as this dull movie.Immediately into this movie, any sensible human would hate these guys. Literally hate these guys and are happy this is a horror movie so they'll get the karma coming to them. Annnd, those are just two of the many flaws here. It's so incredibly predictable and you never like any of the characters. Of course, they try to make one sympathetic, but he's just as bad or worse since he knows better. He's just a follower of his bad-news friends and says no to the bad ideas like a teen would say no to a social media post.Everything's foreseen, the acting was laughable at best, the "villain" was so bland - such an opportunity to get a great voiceover and the ending tries to surprise you and might just do that...to the four people left that's never seen a movie before this one. The one nice thing I can say is: it wasn't badly shot. They were definitely competent in that one single category.The rest you can skip. There are hundreds of more "home-invasion," "stalker" films out there that are 100x better than this trash.***Final thoughts: Please stop casting people close to 30 as your teens. It cannot be pulled off unless you CGI the hell out of them and if you plan that, just make the first Pixar Horror.On second thought, I second that idea. THAT would be awesome!

Don't Hang Up, did remind me of some stuff seen in the early eighties. Could be a title of that era, but it isn't because it's all about the social media and what it could do. There are already a few flicks out about the social media about being unfriended and things go wrong, let this one be a revenge flick about doing pranks on social media and one of them gone wrong.The way it was shot was really nice, doing effects like going through keyholes and windows with the camera so on that part it was okay. And the score did add towards the creepiness of this flick but of course it isn't all that good. It did remind me a lot of Saw somehow and it all predictable. You know towards the end who is going to kill who. In fact there are so many scene's that are predictable but still you want to see the ending. Even as you seen it in other home invasion flicks. Nothing is original but a big hurray to the director and writers. They did a good job because it didn't bothered me at all. Good entertainment and the red stuff is out there. A nice flick to start off the Halloween night and it will do at many events.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Don't hang up is a brilliant Thriller mystery that is just amazing, don't let the ratings persuade you , this movie is a must see , the story line is great, the acting is OK, sometimes the characters get annoying,but all else it epic , theirs great suspense and twists and the killers voice is amazing .