Inspector Hazel Micallef, a Fort Dundas police officer living with her mother Emily, has her normally quiet routine interrupted when she is called to check in on Delia Chandler, a local elderly resident, and finds Delia gruesomely murdered with her face moulded into an apparent open-mouthed scream. The local coroner, however, advises them that shaping the face would have required the killer to hold it in position for at least an hour post-mortem. When Micallef, along with detective Ray Green and new officer Ben Wingate, find out that other murders have been committed with the same m.o., they realise that the killer is trying to convey a message and must be stopped before he kills again.
First thing that you think of when you start watching The Calling is Fargo because this has a very similar look & feel to that film. Unfortunately, The Calling is just as boring as Fargo as well. The film starts out OK, not moving too fast and building up the story pretty nicely as it goes along, but it gets to a certain point where, instead of getting more exciting/thrilling, it goes the other way and gets slower.
I enjoyed about the 1st 40 minutes or so as it was interesting and was good the way the plot was unfolding, but not long after that, my interest started to fade as it just started to get boring and I got to the point where I just didn't care why the killer was doing what he was doing.
The movie's cast was pretty good with Susan Sarandon (even though I think she's HIGHLY overrated), Donald Sutherland (even if he is only in the film for a total of about 10 minutes), and Gil Bellows, but even they couldn't save this movie from being a bit or a snore-fest.
The Calling, overall, is not that bad of a movie, but it's most definitely not the best.
First thing that you think of when you start watching The Calling is Fargo because this has a very similar look & feel to that film. Unfortunately, The Calling is just as boring as Fargo as well. The film starts out OK, not moving too fast and building up the story pretty nicely as it goes along, but it gets to a certain point where, instead of getting more exciting/thrilling, it goes the other way and gets slower.
I enjoyed about the 1st 40 minutes or so as it was interesting and was good the way the plot was unfolding, but not long after that, my interest started to fade as it just started to get boring and I got to the point where I just didn't care why the killer was doing what he was doing.
The movie's cast was pretty good with Susan Sarandon (even though I think she's HIGHLY overrated), Donald Sutherland (even if he is only in the film for a total of about 10 minutes), and Gil Bellows, but even they couldn't save this movie from being a bit or a snore-fest.
The Calling, overall, is not that bad of a movie, but it's most definitely not the best.