Commentary on Movie - Long Distance(spoilers)

So I saw the movie 'Long Distance' yesterday. Netflix is such a wonderful thing:)

I was expecting Long Distance to be a rip off of Cellular, but it wasn't. It was a instead a very well written and acted movie with plot twist they managed to keep hidden until the very last moment possible.

Nichole is a young grad student who is reeling from the breakup with her long time boyfriend whom she suspected was cheating on her. She has a very tense phone conversation with her mother and then attempts to call a friend to commiserate with. However she inadvertantly misdials the friends number and hungs up. No soon than she does, when a man at that number calls her back and begins a series of creepy and harassing phone calls.

Each time the man calls her it's from a different place where he has committed a murder and he is headed in a straight line for Nichole's apartment. Meanwhile Nichole is having strange and disturbing dreams that may link back to why the killer is stalking her.

The police and FBI become involved in as a race against time to track the mysterous man who call's himself Joe and protect Nichole. The lead detective on the case, Tony Halsey becomes romanticly involved with Nichole as he takes on the role of her personal bodyguard.

All the elements of the movie are somewhat cliched, but the actors involved manage to create a lot of tension and character dimension out of it. The movie has minimal gore and relies very heavily on psychological terrors than visual ones. That in itself was a refreshing change of pace. A movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat without grossing you out of it.

The plot twist was very well done and very well hidden until the time needed to reveal it. I won't give the twist away here..I say rent the movie and see it for yourself.