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Summary: What Could Have Been
Review: As with many other films, Phone Booth fell short on its potential. Instead of expanding the horizons of the movie, the director (Joel Schumacher) decided to cut the film in half. Don't get me wrong; I was on pins and needles waiting to see what was going to happen next. But at the conclusion of the movie, I looked at my watch and noticed that it was only 88 minutes long. Katie Holmes' character was a waste at best. I kept waiting to see why the hell she was in the movie at all. However the two main stars (Colin Farrell and Keifer Sutherland) were superb. Keifer had me forget about his day job (the hero on 24). He was back to his evil ways, just where he is at his best. Colin Farrell seems to be getting stronger as an actor but he needs to do a movie that will let him spread his wings.
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Summary: Realy Good Movie!
Review: It will take your fully attention, Just turn off the lights and watch it in a large size tv then you'll live the movie.
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Summary: An eighty minute thrill ride
Review: "Phone Booth" throws you as the viewer into a terrifying yet realistic situation, scares the life out of you, and then leaves you just as quickly to recover. It is smart, entertaining, even funny at times, but not dull at all. It features only three real performances, one of which has only about two minutes of screen time.Colin Farrell plays a publicity agent who is all lies and double talk. He spends the first few minutes wheeling and dealing on his cell phone trying to line up appointments for his clients, all of whom believe he is the real deal. He has certainly presented himself that way. He then goes into a phone booth to call his "mistress" (he hopes). He uses the booth so the call can't be traced on the cell phone and his wife won't see it. After the call, the phone rings and he answers it, beginning one of the most frightening experiences you will witness. He is basically held hostage by the caller on the phone, who has done his homework and knows what a liar Ferrell is. The caller (Kiefer Sutherland) intends to get a confession out of him and teach him a lesson. Eventually the cops show up to straighten things out and the main officer (Forest Whitaker) starts to see that Ferrell is not totally in control. By the end, I was exhausted by the ride. The ending is not a happy one, but it makes sense and goes along with the story as told. All in all, this is one powerful 80 minute film.
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Summary: Phone Home
Review: Considered by many one of the best movies of 2003, "Phone Booth" doesn`t have much to offer beyond what we already knew from the interesting premise shown in the previews. Collin Farrell gives a good performance as the publicist Stu, director Joel Schumacher keeps things going with a tight, controlled and effective rhythm, but one feels it could have been better and gone further. Sure there are a couple of intriguing twists, the direction is top notch and the soundtrack appropriate, though it ends way too fast and would be more adequate as an episode of some tv series like "24" (it even uses some of that series` camera techniques). It`s entertaining to watch Stu suddently trapped in a phone booth, at times even funny, but there`s no tension enough to make a strong, solid movie, just a nice idea that could have been better explored. Somewhat gripping yet too vapid, "Phone Booth" is cinematic fast-food.
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Summary: a great movie
Review: This film reminded me of a 50's movie in some ways. I think alot of that feeling was the caller's voice. (Keifer Sutherland)There were no special effects. The intensity and clastrophobic feeling was brought about by the excellent acting and the way it was filmed. I loved the way it all took place in the one location. Over all I really enjoyed this...a great movie.
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Summary: Why You NEED to See This Movie
Review: Phone Booth is possibly the ultimate expression of what I call an "elevator movie" (after several films appearing over a brief time period in the '70s dealing with people caught in elevators). The basic idea of an elevator movie is to take a group of people, trap them in a small space so they can't get away from each other, place them under incredible stress, then sit back and watch how they react, and relate to each other. In Phone Booth the "group" is limited to one guy, and the space is as small as, well, a phone booth. Actually I misspoke, there is one more member to the "group," a disembodied voice over a phone line (and if there were an Oscar for "Best Disembodied Vocal Performance In a Live Action Movie," Kiefer Sutherland would be a shoein for his work in Phone Booth). Colin Farrell plays Stu Shepard, self-centered, lying, insincere, small time New York City publicist who hopes to cheat on his wife with a hot young actress (Katie Holmes). He calls her from the same phone booth every day, so his wife can't check his cellphone records. After being brushed off - again - he picks up the ringing phone a few seconds later, thinking it's the actress calling back, only to find he's just become the target - pun intended - of a rifle armed psycho who, for the rest of movie, plays vicious mind games with him. Stu can't leave the phonebooth or he'll be killed. The rifleman blows away a pimp right in front of Stu. Hysterical prostitutes think Stu did it. Just about the entire NYPD shows up to point guns at Stu; he can't tell the police what's really happening; The Voice forces Stu to act insane, insult and taunt the police captain (Forest Whitaker) trying to get him out of the phone booth alive. His wife shows up, the actress shows up, everyone thinks he's a crazed gunman. The irony is there is a crazed gunman, but it's not him. And Stu is just about going frickin' nuts from the stress. Colin Farrell turns in a tour de force performance as Stu Shepard. He's quite believable as a not particularly nice guy pushed to the point of breaking, forced by The Voice to examine his soul and find it unworthy, to play a barbed wire game of cat and mouse with his tormentor, trying to figure out a way to tell the police what's really happening without letting The Voice know he's doing it. Because if that happens, he'll be instantly killed. My God, this is a great film. White knuckle time all the way through. If you've been thinking of buying this movie, do it. After watching Phone Booth, I take back every horrible thing I ever thought about Joel Schumacher for Batman & Robin. Well, most of it, anyway. It's hard to believe this is the same director.
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Summary: Fairly straight forward -- no surprises.
Review: The premise is interesting and believable, but the execution (no pun intended) is a bit simplistic. The movie is a bit of a "one liner" in this respect. As a feature film one expects more. Granted the movie keeps you at the edge of your seat, but when it is all over one leaves wanting more -- a clever "twist" or a turn of events or some interesting insight into the sniper's mindset. Infact there is no development of character (i.e. wife, and the "other woman".) Instead it all ends abruptly (80 minutes) leaving the viewer left somewhat "unsatisfied". On the plus side, Colin Farrell delivers a fair performance. This film cleary takes cue from the movie "Speed" with Keanu Reeves from the 90's. Same idea without a moving bus.
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Summary: The preview was the movie.
Review: I wasn't to thrilled with this movie. The whole plot was in the previews and there was really nothing more to it. Colin Farrell did a wonderful job with his character and portrayed such powerful emotion throughout the movie but I felt somewhat cheated. Almost like if you saw the preview, you pretty much saw the film. Nothing else really happened except you get to see how the fim ended. That was about it.
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: O.K I rented this movie and I liked it, who would believe that a movie that takes place in a phone booth will be so good.Great Plot, Great Setting, Great Movie
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Summary: Colin's great in this one
Review: I'm a big fan of Colin Farrell and he doesn't dissapoint in this movie. The interesting thing about this movie is it was filmed in "real time" so when an hour and a half passes as you're watching the movie, the same thing happens in the movie. It may seem like a shorter movie time-wise, but because of the "real time" aspect, you don't notice it as being shorter. The extras aren't all that exciting, but so few are so if you like movies that'll keep you on the edge of your seat, I suggest this movie. There's a lot of language though, for those who don't appreciate that sorta thing.
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