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Operator

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
2.4K
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Ving Rhames, Mischa Barton, and Luke Goss in Operator (2015)
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When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela (Mischa Barton), and her estranged husband Jeremy (Luke Goss), a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are l... Read allWhen the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela (Mischa Barton), and her estranged husband Jeremy (Luke Goss), a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through d... Read allWhen the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela (Mischa Barton), and her estranged husband Jeremy (Luke Goss), a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city w... Read all

  • Directors
    • Amariah Olson
    • Obin Olson
  • Writers
    • Dwain Worrell
    • Obin Olson
    • Amariah Olson
  • Stars
    • Ving Rhames
    • Luke Goss
    • Mischa Barton
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    4.3/10
    2.4K
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    • Directors
      • Amariah Olson
      • Obin Olson
    • Writers
      • Dwain Worrell
      • Obin Olson
      • Amariah Olson
    • Stars
      • Ving Rhames
      • Luke Goss
      • Mischa Barton
    • 34User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Ving Rhames
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    Luke Goss
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    • Jeremy Miller
    Mischa Barton
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    • Pamela Miller
    Michael Paré
    Michael Paré
    • Howard
    Riley Bundick
    • Cassie
    Tony DeMil
    Tony DeMil
    • Tony
    • (as Tony Demil)
    Maurice Chevalier
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    Wendell Kinney
    Wendell Kinney
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    Summer Perkins
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    Althea Tines
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    Eric Joshua Davis
    Eric Joshua Davis
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    • (as Christopher Marrone)
    Christina Quinones
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    Ashley Allen
    • Attractive Woman
    David Alessi
    • Police Officer
    • Directors
      • Amariah Olson
      • Obin Olson
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      • Dwain Worrell
      • Obin Olson
      • Amariah Olson
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    1mikeyvallely

    Just Nope

    This film was so bad, I even felt sorry for the prop designers who had to make all those fake dollar bills in the back of the vans. There was one scene where the main woman was asked to describe her husband and she says "he has brown hair" cut to husband in the cop car...He's bold as a babies bottom and talking about babies bottoms his partner describes a girl having an "ass like a ten year old" now this might have been a joke but the way it was deliverer and how out of the blue it was, just make it creepy.

    It seems to me that the characters where totally miss cast or very poorly directed but not even Spielberg at the helm would have make the story any better.

    DO NOT WATCH!!!!
    5kushina3

    Mixed feelings....bad feelings

    The story was actually quite good. I liked the plot, even though some of the plot twists were very predictable right from the beginning.

    However this movie is rather bad than good. The acting can be bitsy better, the lines can be a bit smarter, and the CGI.....The CGI is painfully horrible!

    I don't regret the time spend on watching it, watch it if you are pretty bored, but otherwise I would not recommend it.
    1mounty78

    Hello operator, is this the Samaritans?

    There occasionally comes a film so mind numbingly bad that it brings me to tears of rage. Step forward 'Operator', a film that's only discernible feature is a quite well done explosion towards the end of the film, an explosion that presumably blew up the film budget as well as the building.

    This is my first ever review and, as I type through the tears of anger and despair, I question my very existence for subjecting myself to the entirety (88 minutes) of the film, watching in disbelief as the acting and transparent plot steadily deteriorated from its excruciatingly painful first half hour. I challenge anybody to find a film with worse acting than that which is contained within this tedious drivel.

    I sat open mouthed in a boredom induced coma, as the actors delivered their lines minus any form of emotion, which is quite bizarre given the centrepiece of the plot involves the daughter of two of the main characters. The acting is so bad that it has given me hope that a life in films awaits me, and so I have chosen the sensible option and quit my 9-5 job to head to Hollywood.

    This film gets 1/10 for the following reasons ;

    1. There is no 0/10 option

    2. The aforementioned explosion was the most believable thing in the whole film
    festus-26986

    GARBAGE. Director has no clue about law enforcement. Well, maybe just doesn't have a clue.

    WOW!!! For garbage. A veteran police officer wearing a Security Enforcement Officer badge (32:30). Besides that the badge and name tags are both on the wrong side of the uniform, even tho the badge stiches are easily seen about them. Great directing........for a third grader. Music overpowers the actors voices. And, the SWAT team loads their weapons AFTER they are in the dispatch center. Have you ever seen a real cop jack a round into their weapon.....EVER. I haven't, and was one for sixteen years. I only continued watching this movie to the end so I could complain about it here. GARBAGE.
    1mgarland

    Just bad, awful, and frustratingly poorly written

    I actually thought the actors were okay, for the most part, but there were quite a few instances where the reactions to certain circumstances seemed way off base. There were so many, that I finally quit counting..or caring.

    I don't think I've ever given any other movie a 1-star rating, but this movie deserves it. There is no redeeming value to it whatsoever. It's sad to think that people spent time and money making this. I've seen better home movies.

    All sorts of fallacies in "action movie logic" and interactions written that just wouldn't happen in any world, real or imagined, completely destroyed any hope of this movie being worth anything more than a glob of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Just terrible and awful, and I couldn't even laugh at it enough to make it entertaining in the least.

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      Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2015
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      In the poster, the American flag on Luke Gross' shoulder has the stars facing to the left. Although this is how we would normally think of the flag as appearing, an American flag always has the stars pointing towards the more important side of whatever it is on. On uniforms, the American flag always has the stars facing toward the front of the uniform, or on the right side as we would see it.
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    • Release date
      • November 3, 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Trò Choi Cua Ke Khung Bô
    • Filming locations
      • Covington, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies
      • DV3 Productions
      • GA2 Productions
      • Status Media & Entertainment
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $67,218
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 28m(88 min)
    • Color
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