The Phone (2015)

Both involve the use of a phone as a time bridging element to change something that happens in the past. Both cases to save a loved one.

Both involve the use of a phone as a time bridging element to change something that happens in the past. Both cases to save a loved one.

While this movie is about a husband talking to his dead wife, Signal is a drama about a young detective using an old walkie talkie to communicate with a detective from the past and solve cold case murders.

Both are fast faced thrillers that involve the back in time element and both offer a bittersweet husband -wife romance!

both titles include time traveling, murder, and the MLs going back in time to save a friend or loved one.

Similarly this is also about time and space between two events. Not bad, taking the concept idea of Edge of Tomorrow for the deja-vu sequence but in a mystery kinship touch.

The Phone is an underrated film, although at the start it has lots of dialogues going on. I also got distracted and wasn't following up in the beginning, but it was actually the story really setting up between the time and space of the murder. It's a combination of Interstellar with Taken, talking through time anomaly, as he tracks down the murderer that killed his wife. So it's like past and present is changing at the same time to unfold more clues to the murder.

When the main character rips the timeline through a call, keeping in touch with the past and modifying it.