Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 0589091727398 Format: Color Label: New Line Cinema Manufacturer: New Line Cinema Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Cinema Region Code: 1 Studio: New Line Cinema
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What if you received a call on your cell phone from a complete stranger, with the frantic voice on the other end begging you to help save her life? Would you hang up immediately, thinking it's a prank? What if there's even a remote chance the caller is serious and you're their only remaining hope? What would you do? A randon wrong number on his cell phone sends a young man into a high-stakes race against time to save a woman's life in this action thriller.
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Customer Rating: Summary: On The Inside, Looking Out Comment: This video was a gift to myself as one of the stars is William Macy who turns out to be the hero of this tragic corruption and abuse by some cops of the LAPD, and he played low-key in this one but was the most effective. Handsome Chris Evans looked like the young Tom Cruise without his big nose. He carried the movie from beginning to conclusion. Kim Basinger was perfect as the wife who is abducted by some thugs from her lovely California home in Brentwood (looked like O. J.'s) by some cruel, nasty roughneck cops. Then the action moves to the arcade park at the Santa Monica Pier with a typical California scene so we meet Chris and his buddies.
We see the LAX terminal which is so huge and beautiful on the interior. That's where the husband is trying to flee for his life because the cops are really after him. Not for a crime he did but for what he witnessed and videotaped. First, though we watch Chris maneuver down the freeway where he receives a call on his cell phone from the frantic woman who has been kidnapped. She talks him into going to her son's school to save him from her fate, as the meanies have her vehicle and he will automatically get in without thinking. Too late, so Chris borrows the security car and does some fancy driving, causing a large smashup of multiple vehicles and bounces through construction in progress to get to the Cellular store for a new battery. He has to use the guard's gun to obtain the much-needed battery but he pays for it. Thus, he's no criminal yet. He'd been told to 'take a number' which pissed him off, and all of the customers and clerks were extremely rude.
He asks for police intervention and Macy goes to the Brentwood home; the woman pushing a baby stroller didn't even wave, just hesitated and walked on. The people out there are unfriendly, with no one wanting to get involved. Chasing the vehicle with the child, all the time trying to talk with the terrorized woman on his phone, the loud noise on car radios of those who are showing off their controvertibles hinders his assistance to his long-distance friend. He purloined the $80,000 Porche with the top down of a cutsie lawyer and told him to "give me your phone or I will shoot the car." There were a few laughs in this fast-paced tension film.
At the airport, as he is running for his life, he lost his phone and she is desperate. In the meantime, she goes ballistic and is able to escape and use her vehicle to rescue the son who is locked in a ratty garage. By that time, the bad cops have made the coup of grabbing her husband at LAX and forces him to take his digital camera out of his bank lock box. He had witnessed the murder of two drug dealers by these arresting police who robbed and killed them and had it on tape -- this police brutality.
The good cop went back to the Brentwood house where he gets shot in the arm. He trusted his superior (wrong move -- as he had been involved in the drug heist) but his 27 years of training finally paid off and saved his life when the top guy's loud ringtone on his cell phone alerted him, there on the pier. He too was trusting the wrong people at first. Chris was asked, "How did you get involved?" His reply: "I just answered my phone." The conclusion was perfect since she is a married mother, who asked how she could repay him. "Don't ever call me again," made the movie worthwhile.
