The Guilty

TREMENDOUS performance by Jake Gyllenhaal. Just give the guy goddamn Oscar nomination

The bloke version of The Call, on a budget and with a fraction of the excitement: something knocked up in desperation during lockdown to make a few quid. Gyllenhaal has the talents to carry a piece like this on his shoulders but overacts from minute one and his character’s backstory is dull, implausible, adds nothing, and seemingly exists just as an excuse to unnecessarily crowbar more contemporary issues into the script. Feels longer than 90 minutes, and not in a good way.

The original was one of the most gripping thrillers in recent memory. Fuqua's remake obviously couldn't keep me in the same suspense but I'm not sure it would have, even if I'd watched his version first. Either way, Gyllenhaal is trying too hard here.

Super effective thriller! The pacing keeps everything intense, the story unfolds in amazingly dark ways, and Joe is a character that near perfectly walks the line of whether or not you lose sympathy toward him or stay on his side.

Having seen and loved the original, this suffers a bit. Gyllenhaal was wonderful, but then, so was Cedergren in the original. So really this doesn't have anything that the original doesn't have, and has diminishing returns. Script is great but not quite as polished as the original. With that said, still a fucking tense thriller. I forgot how absolutely devastating the big reveal near the end is, so it sucked living through that again. This was never boring.

A very good lead performance by Jake Gyllenhaal elevates this film. The script is nothing special but the lead performance makes this movie. Overall I would recommend this film.

Not Jake's best but he's still good in this. I would have thought given his erratic behaviour he would have been yanked off the phones pretty soon after starting but then that's not the story right?

An inspired Gyllenhaal elevates this movie to a level higher than the original. He doesn’t need more than 5 minutes to draw a round character that feels like having a life beyond this movie and that’s a skill very few actors have. Such a great joy to watch him. The tension sags quite a bit in the final chapter and it compensates for it with cheapening, overly emo takes that are fleeting and a resistance to further explore themes of prejudice and guilt.

There was no reason to remake and Americanize the original. This is skip-able.

I just watched the 2018 original's trailer, and I wish I had watched that instead of this bloated netflix remake.

Well done Gyllenhaal.

Saw this one floating around and decided to check it out, being an all-around fan of Jake Gyllenhaal. This one is pretty good. A tense mystery thriller that shows how remaining professional as much as possible at a 911 job is so utterly important and what may happen if you get too emotionally attached.

The Guilty can be gripping with Jake Gyllenhaal's terrific performance, but overall, it's a disappointing remake. If you haven't seen Gustav Möller's movie, you should definitely check it out first.

You're damn right it is—GUILTY of casting Riley Keough and never showing her!

One good performance cannot save this.

Where to start... Absolutely not realistic. No communication between operators? No shared system to check each others calls? Not patching in others on important calls? If you know how the systems works then it's difficult to look past the movie's flaws.

Bro DID NOT help

he's guilty

It started off interesting and Jake Gyllenhaal delivers an excellent performance, but it just lost me along the way. Maybe it's the pandemic taking its toll on the movie, but it simply wasn't thrilling enough and the pacing was out of whack.

Intense. Feels slow/empty somewhere between the second and third acts. The end saves the movie from being too much copaganda. I liked this.

Good concept and executed well enough.

I don't know if not talking while you're on the phone is a thing in the USA but... Jake Gyllenhaal is amazing. Also that plot twist though.

Pas possible de ne pas mettre la moyenne à un film avec Jake Gyllenhaal mais bon sang, le cliché appuyé du méchant flic coupable de tous les maux, c'est fatiguant ! A la fin, le film ne ressemble plus qu'à une pièce de théâtre sur un flic repentant.

I didn't know this film was being remade and finally got around to watching the original just under 2 months ago. Lo and behold a few days later I saw a trailer that this remake had been done and was releasing shortly. The original is better in my opinion, but Jake does great work. I watched it to see his performance and wasn't disappointed w it. The film is almost a carbon copy w a few changes. 5.8 for me. Original was a 7.4. See that one if you haven't seen either.

On the back of a great performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, it's a very watchable, if unspectacular film. The film being what it is, there isn't enough to get the most of the characters and story, but what's there is pretty well told.

Gyllenhaal sold me the character online but the script failed to deliver it to my home address. Daytime soap style drama that is akin to a thinly veiled PSA about mental health.

2018'deki The Guilty'i aynı isimle uyarlayan film yine kan dondurucu olsa da Jake Gyllenhaal oyunculuğu dışında 2018 yapımından çok da farklı değil.

Gyllenhaal is amazing in this movie. His nuances are what drive the tension high as he receives a call that will forever change his life. He's brash, aggressive and trying to deal with these emotions. There is a lot happening beyond what we see and that definitely creates a pulse for this movie and the tension never lets up. It's engaging with very little happening visually. It's all about the power behind the performances.

The Phone Call: The Movie

Don't like judging movies by their politics but that's basically all this movie is. And of all the societal problems on display, the only one it condemns is the one that it paid the least attention to. Some other glaring issues it not only doesn't judge, sometimes it seems to actually rely on them. Pretty appalling. Gyllenhaal's performance is pretty good, if nothing else.

Jake G. was all this film needed, and that’s all they got. For most of the movie, it was Jake, a computer, and a phone, and it was never boring

I usually really like these kinds of movies (ones where you only really see one or 2 rooms in the whole movie), but this one was just not well acted out.. and I'm such a fan of Jake Gyllenhaal. Kind of lame that he gets everything wrong, could have been so much more.

Okay remake of the superior Danish original. Two factor made this one less. First the extra focus on Gyllenhaal personal life, including a completely unnecessary coda. Drama which seem added in a failed attempt to say something about police brutality in the USA. Secondly the original did a much better job in slowly building doubts about the victim's take on events. Still watchable cause the main story does still have enough suspense and Gyllenhaal does carry the movie with ease.

not so good

I will check out the original.

I guess Jake delivers the tormented dude we expect him to do -- a cop accused of killing a young man trying to help out a woman who's been allegedly kidnapped, and his head is bursting because trial day is tomorrow --, but the expository elements really make this kind of boring, specially in the second half. Don't remember much of that Halle Berry flick, but I think it is way more rewarding.

All of the action is basically left to your imagination. That made the movie somewhat interesting and unique for me.

A decent little thriller, but Joe's anger issues are over the top and off the charts. The thrill of it all seems to dissipate in the second act as Joe goes rogue.

I watched this without realizing that it was a remake of a movie I had seen. The original was better, but since I already knew the plot, this one was a bit spoiled. Jake Gyllenhaal was great, but I'm not sure why they needed the subtle plot changes over the Danish original.

I think it's a fine performance in service of an important point that should probably not have been stretched out to feature length. A lot of story points get sat on for unbearably long stretches of the film because there frankly isn't enough of it to go around.

İlkokul çocuğu gibi kıssadan hisseyi son diyalogda vermek nedir?

The movie as a whole was a little lacking, but Jake Gyllenhaal was again phenomenal.

Jake was superb as always and it was directed well enough to grip me. I was surprised by the twist and it was a sad watch. Enjoyed it.

Riley Keough's ASMR game is top-notch

jake g killin it

Succeeds for quite a while in its first aim – which is to generate tension – but the twist proves a little too obvious and the dialogue starts to sound a bit too close to speechifying, so that the higher aim – which is to teach lessons about the complexity of situations, the ease with which prejudice distorts perception, and the necessity of justice – ends up seeming too much a product of a "moment" rather than exceeding that moment: as a result, the force of the message is blunted.

911 çağrı merkezinde çalışan 1 polis, 1 kadın kaçırılma olayına takılır. Danimarka yapımı, aynı isimle, birebir anlatılan film, yeni 1 olay aramaya bırakıyor. Jake Gyllenhaal iyi olduğu film, tek mekanda geçen filmler arasında yer alacak. Konu kısır döngü olduğundan, çok fazla beklentiye giremiyoruz. Çünkü film, Amerikan polisini sevin diyor. Filmin sonunda, suçumu kabul ediyorum. Ağla erkeğim ağla.

I've committed the sin of watching this before the original, but I thought it was good. Still, "The Call" might be just as good with a similar plot.

Jake is good but the movie is not that great. Suffers from a typical problem where characters don't tell people enough information and that drives the entire movie.

Very interesting low budget thriller

First 40 Minutes are flawless but its kinda boring in the middle, Jakes Acting is masterful as always

This was a must-watch for me because of Jake. I haven't seen the original, but if this is exactly like the original, then that's great. It's crazy how tense a film can be that mostly happens through phone calls.