The Calling

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Audience Member Someone needs to seriously rewrite the "movie info" that appears above. It is certainly no documentary, just another cliched film about a virginal woman who gives birth to the antichrist. This one though, isn't terrible, and wasn't a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon too hot to be outside. The characters remain one-dimensional pretty much the entire way through, but there were enough unexpected plot turns to keep my attention, save for one, over which the casting director should have been fired. (SPOILER) What husband in his right mind would trade the beautiful mid-thirties Laura Harris, for Alice Krige, now pushing sixty, and quite frankly, looking every bit? Alice Krige is no longer the young, late-twenties sexpot of the early 1980s "Ghost Story," in this film. For me, believability went out the window with that plot twist. I wouldn't exert any effort to see this movie, but if you happen to catch it while channel surfing like I did, as I said above, it's not all bad. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Someone needs to seriously rewrite the "movie info" that appears below. It is certainly no documentary, just another cliched film about a virginal woman who gives birth to the antichrist. This one though, isn't terrible, and wasn't a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon too hot to be outside. The characters remain one-dimensional pretty much the entire way through, but there were enough unexpected plot turns to keep my attention, save for one, over which the casting director should be fired. What husband in his right mind would trade the beautiful mid-thirties Laura Harris, for Alice Krige, now pushing sixty, and quite frankly, looking every bit. Alice Krige is not the young, late-twenties sexpot of the early 1980s "Ghost Story," in this film. Believability went out the window with that plot twist. I wouldn't exert any effort to see this movie, but if you happen to catch it while channel surfing like I did, as I said above, it's not all bad. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member I usually love movies about women giving birth to the Antichrist/Christ, but this one was really convoluted and confusing. No fun at all! Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member ok movie not so great though.. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member 13th July The Calling Unusual and rather melodramatic film about a convent - all the nuns being famous English actresses was a bit strange... Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Mike M There is a rare group of low-budget British features that don't merit reviewing so much as deconstructing on "Harry Hill's TV Burp"... It rapidly becomes unclear whether Dunn's film is meant to be understood as drama or comedy. The conversion of the heroine into a Catholic Life-subscribing missionary, and the fate of her ODing boyfriend, suggest the former; but curb-your-ecclesiasm woodwind cues and the presence of mop-pushing Pauline McLynn and calm-downing Tushingham as a Scouse-Irish chorus push "The Calling" closer to sitcommy farce. Their participation, and that of hardy industry perennials Blethyn, York and (as the credits have it) "Corin Redgrave as the Bishop", indicate that Dunn is here targeting older audiences, presumably Christians who feel they're being marginalised, and to whom this life of cloistered, selfless devotion might still hold some lingering romantic appeal. Rational members of the cinemagoing flock may, however, find the hectoring and judgemental script - its every scene ruling on some issue or another - an obstacle to true belief. Dunn made a promising debut with 2006's "Gypo"; here, you sense, she's simply been misguided by voices. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/18/10 Full Review Read all reviews

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