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Summary: Starts with a bang, ends with a whimper
Review: So this is the movie that was so controversial that they kept postponing the release date over and over again after the shootings in Virginia and the Washington D.C. area. Well... Perhaps that was justified. But the problem with this movie is that you don't like the main character, you don't like the villain... In fact, none of the major characters have anything that makes them remotely interesting. Colin Farrell does a poor Bronx accent and is either trying too hard or not trying hard enough... it's hard to tell at times with his performance. The ending is disappointing and extremely anticlimactic. All in all, it's not a tremendous movie and I would definitely not recommend it to my friends and family.
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Summary: Good thriller
Review: "Phone Booth" is really a Hitchcock-like thriller as it combines suspense and excitement all packed into a Manhattan phone booth, where PR-guy Stu (Farrell) is held on the line by a sniper (Sutherland) who threatens to kill him if he hangs up. The big plus of the movie is that it really makes you want to know what will happen next. Sutherland (who only appears at the very end)adds momentum with his evil voice. Somehow it's strange how "Phone Booth" wastes good actors. Sutherland is on screen one minute and Katie Holmes' role is a better cameo. The movie is carried by Colin Farrell's great performance. What I didn't understand though is the snipers motivation....why does he want to kill someone who cheated on his wife? Another minus is the weak ending. Worth watching though.
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Summary: Fascinating Premise, Poor Presentation
Review: Despite the critical boos, I've wanted to see "Phone Booth" since the previews first started popping up in movie theaters last fall. It looked like a truly unique film; what exciting opportunities the claustrophobia of a phone booth offered to the filmmaker who could take advantage of it. Unfortunately, the finished product offers little pay-off. The script barely scratches the surface of the situation; every character and plot twist exists simply to back the premise: a guy stuck in a phone booth, a sniper aimed at his chest. Nothing in this movie makes any sense outside the play-universe of Hollywood. The cast consists of some very talented actors, but they have little to work with. In short, "Phone Booth" is one of the more disappointing films I've seen recently, mostly for what it fails to deliver.
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Summary: Phone Booth Review
Review: I thought the movie was an easy movie to follow because it was limited to one scene. It all takes place in a phone booth in the center of New York City. It was amazing to me how a sniper was able to know so much about Stews life in a nut shell from following his phone calls. And how Stew lived to seperate lives. One with Pam and one with Kelly his wife.. The sniper was able to control Stew for the first time in his life and humble him by using threats to kill him. Stew starts to finally realize that he will not ever be able to leave the phone booth without either confessing his sins or without Kelly or Pam being shot by the sniper. It also seems that Stew decides to provoke the sniper to kill him, instead of one of the women by leaving the phone booth with the gun in hand. I feel that it takes a real man to admit to his wife that his whole lifestyle was fake and that he really showed humility and a genuine heart for his mistakes. Overall the movie was great and within two days I have already watched it twice. I recomend that peole who lead similar lifestyles as Stew did watch it and are convicted by it.
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Summary: Fabulous Film!
Review: I really loved this movie. I had expected very little except filthy language because of the poor reviews listed. Sometimes I wished I had believed the reviews and stayed away, but this was one time I was pleasantly surprised. From the opening shot, I was drawn in and followed each scene with the highest interest. I enjoyed the characters, and felt I knew enough about them to get the most from this film. Under the circumstances, I thought the main character's bad language fit the pressure of his situation, and was not excessive. The pace was quick, and I enjoyed it. Even though the story takes place mostly in the phone booth, the story was more exciting and involving than many movies with multiple changes of place. Take a chance and see this movie!
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Summary: Brilliant.
Review: A ringing phone has to be answered.
This 80 minute film, it set almost entirely in and around the phone booth, where Stu (Colin Farrell) is being watched by an anonymous sniper who he is talking to on the phone. Stu Shepperd, is a PR, who spends his days lying to people, he lies to his wife, and his girlfriend. He tells people he can make them famous. It's his lying that gets him in trouble. He comes to the phone booth everyday, to call his girlfriend Pam (Katie Holmes). As he is leaving, the phone rings, and Stu answers it.
The story begins.
On the phone is an anonymous sniper, somewhere from one of the hundred windows above. Ordering Farrell to confess his many sins, or lose his life this story is gripping. After the killing of Leon, who wanted to use the phone, the police arrive and the sotry really heats up. Pam, who has already been told the truth, is also there and is Stu's wife Kelly.
The cops, belive Stu is behind the killing of Leon, however after a while, Stu who is having a breakdown in the phone box, realising he is about to die, manages to call Kelly who hands the phone over to, Capt. Ramey(Forest Whitacker). He realises this is a 'sniper situation' and a few chats in code to Stu, they hunt down where they believe the sniper is.
In the end, they believe they have the sniper, who has cut his throat. But they might eb wrong, Stu who hangs up the phone and runs onto the sreet is shot, but by whom? I won't spoil it for you, you'll have to watch.
But Farrell is amazing in this film, from starting off as a cocky, arrogant Publicists, and ending as a broken man, sobbing his confessions to his wife, and the millions watching on TV he is convincing the whole way thorugh, and you feel genuially sorry for him. Others in this film, play well tin their roles esspecially Keifer Sutherland, who plays the voice of the sniper, however Colin shines in this film.
Despite the constant (and at times unnescsary) swearing, this film is brilliant. Two words.
Watch It.
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Summary: phone booze
Review: artsi fartsi direction? please could anybody stop the director of this making more.
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Summary: Pulpy Saturday afternoon matinee
Review: "Phone Booth" surprised me slightly in the fact that it was an entertaining movie and managed to only teter on the brink of cheesiness and melodrama rather than plummeting entirely into that chasm. On the other hand, it did not surprise me that this movie turned out to be one that I enjoyed watching at the time, but will most likely completely forget about relatively soon. This is the type of movie that you pop in the DVD player, or better yet, find on cable on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
While the movie itself is slightly above average, Colin Farrell's performance is admittedly pretty good and goes a long way towards helping the overall merit of "Phone Booth". Farrell is asked to basically carry the movie by himself (aided somewhat by the sometimes creepy, sometimes unintentionally funny disembodied voice of Kiefer Sutherland). What is perhaps most difficult about his role is the fact that he plays a sleazy guy who must elicit a sympathic response from the audience in order for the movie to work, a feat which Farrell pulls off admirably.
The plot, as anyone can tell from the preview, is thin, and one can almost hear it stretched to the point of breaking by the time the movie ends. The issue explored in "Phone Booth", that of a vigilante who seeks to punish despicable human beings, is well meaning and idealistic, but too heavy handed, and was explored much more powerfully in Se7en.
All in all, "Phone Booth" is a decent movie, but perhaps would have been more effective as an hour long TV show or two part mini-series.
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Summary: Use this Phonebooth
Review: I rented this movie with a bunch of diffrent and mixed reviews.
One person told me it [was bad].The other person told me it was great.The other person said she would rather be in a wheel chair the rest of her life than see this movie again.I say This movie was terrific.Colin Farrell gives an electrifying performance as
Stu Shepard a publicist who is a typical lyer.He is married to a woman named Kelly and has a girlfriend who he calls from the
Phonebooth each morning.One day he walks into the phonebooth to call her and he hangs up after talking to her.The phoen begins to ring.He picks it up and begins to talk to a sniper played by
Kiefer Sutherland (who isn't seen until the end).When a strip club manager is shot by the sniper the cops believe its him.
One of the cops played by Forest Whitaker figures out whats goin on.But I don't want to give the movie away.My suggestion to you see this movie.You will be in for a wild ride
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Summary: makes you not want to use a phone
Review: this movie is unique, intense, and nail biting the previews may have looked bad but hey the you cant judge a book by its cover quote refers to this move RENT IT NOW
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