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On the Line

2022

Romuald Boulanger

Mel Gibson, William Moseley, Kevin Dillon, Alia Seror-O'Neill ...

4.6

1,063

Thriller A host takes a call, where an unknown person threatens to kill the showman's entire family on air. To save loved ones, the radio host will have to play a survival game and the only way to win is to find out the identity of the criminal.

	Author	Review
Australia	Jake Wilson Sydney Morning Herald	"All this is filmed in a flat, borderline amateurish style, with lots of handheld over-the-shoulder shots in the dialogue scenes (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Lee Brown The Review Geek	"A missed opportunity, it quickly starts to lose its way. Therefore, this is probably a movie you should ignore. If your friend calls you up and recommends it to you, that phone call is probably one you should quickly hang up on"	NEG
United Kingdom	Terry Staunton Radio Times	"The acting is across-the-board woeful, with Gibson all-but sleepwalking through his role, and the preposterous denouement serves only to compound viewers' suspicions that the whole affair has been a waste of their time (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jesse Hassenger Decider	"There’s something immediately tense and mysterious about an anonymous voice at the other end of a phone call (...) So it’s remarkable how writer-director Romuald Boulanger is able to over-amp that tension before dissipating it entirely over the course of 'On the Line'"	NEG
United States	Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media	"Using the idea of a radio show to get across much of its action, this low-budget thriller might have worked had it not made several missteps that will leave viewers feeling frustrated and annoyed (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Australia	Jake Wilson The Age	"[Mel Gibson's] curmudgeonly persona has hardened to a point that leaves limited room to modulate, which is a problem (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG

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