Phone Booth

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Phone Booth

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Phone Booth

Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Ben Foster

A slick New York publicist (Farrell) who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that th...( read more  read more... )e caller isn't kidding.

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  • mrpopcorn
    October 14, 2009
    mrpopcorn
    "A ringing phone has to be answered."

    Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle.

    REVIEW

    Farrell gives it his all as a slick entertainm...( read more)ent public relations agent who winds up the pawn of a demented serial killer (an oily and affective voice over by Sutherland) when he's subjected to being his next victim while being confined to the last public phone booth in New York City unless he does everything that's been requested including his confessions of his less than pure thoughts and actions resulting in either his death or his public humiliation. A one trick gimmick of having a character stuck in one setting proves to be the main problem of an otherwise intriguing premise cooked up by ?70s schlockmeister Larry Cohen (who wrote the script) and flashy direction by Joel Schumacher echoing his own `Falling Down' and dare say `Dog Day Afternoon'. My biggest gripe is the film was shot in LA outside of the opening on location set up in Times Square which gives the whole feel of the film screaming `fake' and ultimately the crazed gun man's lack of a reason to target Farrell.
  • SirPant
    September 21, 2009
    SirPant
    *Ring ring*
    Hello
    Hi, did you know Hitchcock actually wanted to film this story before his death?
    No I didn't know that interesting fact, thanks for telling me. Is this film any good?
    Yeah, it's pretty good!
    Great, thanks. Bye
    Bye
    *Click*
  • allan913
    July 16, 2009
    allan913
    Colin Farrel gives a riveting and electrifying performance. A off the hook type of acting that shines of movie star calibur. Forest Whitaker is teriffic. Kiefer Sutherland is perfectly menacing, a great performance. A brilliant, fast-paced, mind-blowing, smart and tension-buildin...( read more)g psychological thriller. It keeps your pulse running high and dosent stop till the last heart-pounding second. It's slick, stylish and wickedly original.
  • DrZeek
    June 15, 2009
    DrZeek
    The Caller: Stu, if you hang up, I will kill you.

    I really like this movie. Its a thriller that succeeds at doing exactly what it is going for. It takes a neat premise and pushes it along very quickly at an exciting 80 minutes. Colin Farrell teams up again with director Joel Sc...( read more)humacher to make a quality flick.

    The Caller: You're in this position because you're not telling the truth.
    Stu: No, I'm in this fucking position because YOU HAVE A GUN!

    Farrell stars as Stu, a small-time publicist who talks the talk but may not walk the walk. He seems to spend his days lying to various companies, people, agencies about others to make money for himself and promote himself as the big item. He also has a routine of using one of the last phone booths in New York to call a cute waitress, Pam played by Katie Holmes, and flirt with her. The big problem is, on one particular day, the phone booth gives Stu a call, and on the other end is a sadistic caller aiming at Stu from across the street with a high powered sniper rifle.

    [the Caller cocks his gun]
    The Caller: Now doesn't that just torque your jaws? I love that. You know like in the movies just as the good guy is about to kill the bad guy, he cocks his gun. Now why didn't he have it cocked? Because that sound is scary. It's cool, isn't it?

    After a brief scuffle occurring at the booth with a man trying to force Stu out, a dead body is now at the scene and the police arrive. A captain, played by Forest Whitaker, is trying to understand the situation, but Stu is being forced by the caller, voiced by Kiefer Sutherland, to not make any sort of attempt to communicate his situation, let alone leave the booth.

    Stu: I already told you this is a private conversation. Now, what the fuck do you want?
    Capt. Ramey: I just want you to know, that it's safe outside the booth.
    The Caller: No, it's not.
    Stu: Always get out of the booth. I like in the fucking booth. It's my whole world now, this is my booth and I'm not coming out ever. You hear me? Never.

    Coming from an idea that Hitchcock supposedly had years ago, this is a wonderful concept for a thriller, and the idea is certainly pushed to its extremes. Shot in just 12 days, this movie makes good use of its setting, one block in New York is the backdrop to a consistently tense conversation between one man and a voice.

    Farrell is very good here. He has to go through a wide range of emotions to fully make this character go from asshole to one we want to see get through this terrible day and a long confession he delivers late in the game is certainly a well earned moment. Sutherland being involved to mainly provide a scary voice, is also very effective. Then you have a supporting cast that is headed up by Whitaker, who just works really well.

    Schumacher lends a little visual style to the film by adding some clever camera work and the use of split screens to get across a lot of parallel scenes at once. The score by Harry Gregson Williams is also effective.

    Its a small film in structure, but it certainly keeps one engaged.

    Stu: You shoot the guy, and I'm responsible?
    The Caller: It looked that way from up here.
    Stu: I don't know what I did to you, but whatever it was I'm glad. Alright, I wish it had been worse, I wish you had fucking died.
    The Caller: Yes! Finally some honesty.
  • JennifairyW
    January 19, 2009
    JennifairyW
    "I've been dressing up as something I'm not for so long, I'm so afriad you won't like what's underneath. But here I am, just flesh and blood, and weakness...."

    I'd been meaning to watch this for about 5 years but I never expected that a film shot almost entirely in a phon...( read more)e booth would be so gripping and entertaining. You get so immersed in the story that you don't feel the time pass.
    Despite it being a fairly simple story, it manages to hold your attention. But it doesn't do this with action, simply with the suspense of what's going to happen next and the banter between its two main characters. The films use of split screens gives the impression that there's a lot going on at once making it feel fast paced, a pace which is maintained throughout. All actors perform very well with their characters and there's great chemistry between caller and victim, Kiefer Sutherland's voice has to be mentioned, so calm and creepy eee.

    The moral message or killer/caller's motivation is effectively put across (it's not unlike the message given in the newer Saw movies, did anyone else notice?). Punishing people guilty of lies, lust, corruption etc.
    All in all I found it a suspenseful thriller, with decent twists and turns that should keep you interested and at some points, on the edge of your seat.

    "Always get out of the booth. I like in the fucking booth. It's my whole world now, this is my booth and I'm not coming out ever. You hear me? Never."
  • Ivan6655321
    December 7, 2009
    Ivan6655321
    Solid thriller with Hitchcockian elements. Colin Farrell's performance was great, but I thought he sounded much like a young Robert De Niro in the duration of the film, thus distracting his performance for me.
  • nrmohanraj
    November 23, 2009
    nrmohanraj
    Phone Booth is a 2002 morality thriller about a man who is held hostage in a telephone booth by a sniper.
  • VagosS
    November 17, 2009
    VagosS
    It's not what we call great film, but the original scenario makes it worth seeing...
    Rumor sais Hitchcock wanted to direct it before he died, I wonder what the result would be...
  • GreenGoblin92
    November 8, 2009
    GreenGoblin92
    Too damn short. What was worse was the music. I mean, it was Harry-Gregson Williams (Shrek, Kingdom of Heaven, Team America, Chicken Run) that did the score, not some electronic music freak. Why the hell did the score have to all-electronic. It totally let the suspense and even f...( read more)ilm down. This would've been a quite good film if it had a orchestral score.

    Another thing is that those prostitutes were so damn annoying and the F words were overused. The twist was good.

    I love electronic music (house and ambient), but NOT on films.
  • Maeliki
    November 3, 2009
    Maeliki
    Great cast.....Kiefer, Colin, and Forest.....wow.....They really made a damn good movie starring a phone booth.....no really.....action packed and Mr. 24 is no joke....
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