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On the Line

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• Drama

• 2022
• Romuald Boulanger
• 104 mins
• 15

Summary

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.

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A star rating of 1 out of 5.

Terry Staunton

Mel Gibson heads the cast of this dreary thriller as Elvis Cooney, an egotistical radio host whose late-night show is disrupted by a caller claiming to have taken the shock-jock's wife and daughter hostage. Elvis and his studio staff are forced to carry out a series of tasks while also trying to establish the identity and motive of the caller. If writer/director Romuald Boulanger's intention is to comment on the outrageous behaviour and callousness of media figures operating in a grey moral area, he fails spectacularly thanks to a screenplay littered with ludicrous yet predictable plot twists and cringe-inducing dialogue. 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.

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Released on

2023-02-03

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English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, sexual references

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Colour

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