The Call Up

The Call Up

2016 · 90 min · EN · 5.1 (126 votes)
Dir. Charles Barker · Starring Max Deacon, Morfydd Clark, Ali Cook, Chris Obi, Tom Benedict Knight, Dino Fazzani

This time it's for real

AdventureActionScience Fiction

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.

VIBE

This film plunges you into a hyper-real, high-octane virtual world that blurs the line between game and deadly reality. Expect adrenaline-fueled action and a constant sense of unease as the dream experience turns nightmarish.

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