The Call Up

Release Date: 2016-05-20

Overview: When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.

Rating: 5.135 / 10

Cast

Max Deacon

as Carl

Morfydd Clark

as Shelly

Ali Cook

as Edward

Chris Obi

as The Sergeant

Tom Benedict Knight

as Marco

Crew

Charles Barker - Writer
Charles Barker - Director
Vincent Keane - Stunt Coordinator
Peter Burgoyne - Rigging Gaffer
Levan Doran - Stunts Coordinator

Reviews

shaun1966:

I really didn't know what to expect from this but I have to say I really liked it! The suspense is on the edge of your seat stuff. Very timely with all the hype around VR at the moment. If you're in...

joncross17:

I caught this at the London Sci-Fi festival where it went down a storm. It has a great premise (a group of gamers take part in a life-like virtual reality game like Call of Duty but things are more da...

LR:

An impressive film recommended to passionate gamers and for sci-fi buff. The apparently simple premise has the immediacy of a lost classic: pure, quite gripping and brilliantly transposed on screen. A...

Buffytheguitarslayer:

I really loved this film :) I saw it in the cinema and it kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish! It is full of cool twists, sprinkled with a good dash of humour too. (I didn't guess the ...