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Summary: Don't even think about NOT SEEING THIS MOVIE!!!
Review: I AM A BIG COLIN FARRELL FAN! I HAVE SEEN EVER SINGLE MOVIE THAT HE HAS STARRED IN! BUT OUT OF ALL HIS PERFORMANCES THIS ONE WAS THE BEST! PHONE BOOTH HAS YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT! SO FAR I HAVE SEEN THIS MOVIE LIKE 17 TIMES BUT EVERYTIME I WATCH IT, IT NEVER GETS OLD OR BORING! SO, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE YET, GO RENT IT TODAY! ANOTHER MOVIE THAT COLIN FARRELL WAS GREAT IN WAS "AMERICAN OUTLAWS", IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE ALSO RENT IT TODAY!!!!!
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Summary: Don't even think about NOT SEEING THIS MOVIE!
Review: I AM THE BIGGEST COLIN FARRELL FAN! I THOUGHT THAT PHONEBOOTH WAS THE GREATEST MOVIE AROUND NEXT TO S.W.A.T.! PHONEBOOTH HAS A LOT OF ACTION WITHIN IT AND IT IS VERY SUSPENSFUL! I LOVE COLIN FARRELL AND I THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS THE BEST PART HE HAS EVER PLAYED! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE YET, I RECOMMEND THAT YOU GO SEE IT!
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Summary: Umm.....Predictable and tepid..those are compliments, right?
Review: I waited a while to see this film. It didn't seem like it would be worth watching. So I asked several people who said it was okay. Others said it was good. I should have considered the source.This movie is just plain boring. I read another review that said it should have been a straight to video release. I couldn't agree more. The only reason this film made it to the theaters is that Colin Farrell is seeing an upward spike in his popularity. (I doubt it will last. I like him well enough, but the press on his personal life is far more interesting than his acting ability). A guy is stuck in a phone booth, because someone on the other end of the phone is going to kill him or someone else - that's the premise of the movie. It doesn't deviate from that - not once. I knew what was coming from a mile away. I knew what was going to happen at the end and I knew who would be blamed with everything. There's just not much to this film. It's threadbare in its plot. You don't really care about the lead (Farrell), nor do you give a flip about anyone else. There's no reason to. The screenwriters nor the director bother giving us enough information to feel any identification with any of the characters. Phone Booth garnered hype only because at the time of its initial release, a sniper started shooting up D.C. in reality. Since the premise of this film is a sniper, it gave this weak film millions of dollars of worth of free publicity. Don't bother! Really!
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Summary: Intense concept film that keeps you on the edge of your seat
Review: Judging from the wide range of reviews I've seen here (from "it stinks" to "it's the best") I thought I'd add my 25 cents (phone booth contribution). I found Phone Booth to be the most thrilling suspense film I've seen since The Negotiator. Dramatic and stunning performances make, what many people called a weak script, an almost believable story (remember, it's Hollywood, not a documentary we're watching here). Colin Farrell maintains a consistent level of paranoia, fear, and even denial throughout the entire ordeal. I am very disappointed in the trailer for the film, which practically shows you the entire movie with little room left for curiosity. I went in only knowing a guy is trapped in a booth because of a sniper, and that was it. Perhaps that's why I enjoyed it so much. At any rate, if you like dramatic performances and an interesting concept, Phone Booth is definitely worth a viewing. Although Sutherland's physical screen time may be about two minutes, his chilling voice throughout the entire film has a powerful presence of its own. I give it 4 stars because there was just too much profanity... so when will they make DVDs with the 'clean' version feature??
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Summary: The art of listening.
Review: Before I watched this film, I read several reviews on it. Most of them was negative. Than I checked out the director: Joel Schumacher. I found few mediocre films by him but at the same time I found few of my favorites: The Lost Boys (1987), Flatliners (1990), Falling Down (1993), The Client (1994). Based on this research I had no choice but to watch this film.
Main character Stu (Colin Farrell at his best performance) is one of this fake New Yorkers: some publicist, dressed in a fake coat of bogus fame and unexciting BIG contacts. He stops by at the phone booth to make his regular call to another women, the one which doesn't know that he is married... As soon as he hangs up? A phone call... A phone call for him... A phone call by a sniper. He has to play by the sniper's rules, or someone will die.
A thriller? An action? A psychological drama? I would say all of it at the same time... but much more. Did I want to know what will happen next? Yes! Did this film make me think? Yes! From my point of view, this film mostly about art of listening. We often prejudge situations and people. But we forget to listen, to understand and hear the meaning of simple clues which might save our own life. And Forest Whitaker as Captain Ramey did this part very well.
On the other hand it gives us a slight idea how one second can change our life forever. And it does every single day.
The ending made me disappointed but I can't give this film less than A- grade. I've seen better, but not as many as you might think.
Reviewed by "russianwriter.net"
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Summary: I was proven wrong, this movie is pretty good.
Review: Before watching this movie, I couldn't imagine enjoying a movie that centered primarily around a single location. How boring, I thought. Well, turns out I was wrong. The movie is interesting and it kept my attention, moreso because of Colin's acting. Because there's not a lot of action in the film -- there is some, though -- the story relies heavily on dialog, which fortunately, for the most part, was good. In addition, Colin convincingly portrays a character that was under a lot of stress and in a sticky situation that he can't find an easy way to get out of. And believe me, he's trying. The "bad guy" is convincing as a lunatic that could do all he threatens to do and more. Granted I had a hard time imagining a similar situation in real life, but in today's world, my imagination has been sorely stretched by real-life events so I was able to accept the storyline. Bottom line, I'd recommend the movie, at least as a rental.
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Summary: Less than stellar........hang up the phone already
Review: First things first.....Colin Farrell is a great actor. However, he was not enough to save this movie from dying a slow and painful death. The first few minutes sets up the story as it talks about cell phone usage and how the phone booth is slowly going out of style. However, there are people who still use phone booths in the NYC. Notably, Colin Farrell's character "Stu Shepard", who uses the phone booth to call his mistress. That is where the action begins or the so-called action. I'm sorry, but a man standing in a phone booth an hour and 20 minutes in an hour and 30 minute movie is not my idea of spine-tingling action. About 40 minutes into it, I was begging the caller to shoot him. Forrest Whitaker's a great actor as well, but he nor Colin could save this movie. It was just annoying to watch. There were some good scenes, not many but there were some. The movie could have been set up a lot better than it was. It was like they jumped right into the heart of the story and sucked as much blood out as they possibly could. The last scene was really good, but the scenes before that leave you in a stupor. I wouldn't recommend this to friends. They wouldn't like me anymore. I would recommend "Identity" or "Final Destination 2" instead. Peace
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Summary: Riveting! 81 Minutes of Fun!
Review: I am fascinated by the polarization of opinions on this movie. Reviewers rave either about how good it was, or how bad it was, but they rave. My wife brought this home and I had no preconceived notions, nor did I even know if what its genre was. At first, I thought it was going to be sci-fi. That evaporated quickly after the introduction and I thought it would be a comedy, or a comedic treatise of the life of a wheeler-dealer. There were some hints that things would change...then The Phone Call. The main character initially reacts in a way that I think most people would, including myself. I sure wouldn't want to find out how I would handle that resulting situation! From that point in the movie, I sat on the edge of my seat. I cursed when my phone rang and I was interrupted. I was tense for the next sixty minutes, loving every minute! I sat engrossed, watching the interactions between the characters. Most of the movie does, as some have whined, take place in the simple setting of a phone booth. It is a bit of magic and art that so much emotion and intrigue could emit from this unchanging setting! I know, it was Steven Spielberg, but I think a fair comparison would be the movie "Duel". A simple setting, pretty much unchanging, yet a thriller to the end. I am going to watch it again tomorrow night with some friends. I rarely watch a movie twice within a year or two -- it was that much fun. I do think that the suspense and intrigue might be largely sacrificed once you had watched it. I don't know if I would own it, but I would certainly recommend renting it.
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Summary: Better then I thought
Review: Colin Farrell is definitely flooding the market with himself lately. He is just making movie after movie. When this movie came out I thought it seemed pretty interesting so I rented it. You would think that a movie based completely in a phone booth wouldn't be that interesting. Well, get ready to be surprised, this movie was interesting from beginning to end. I'm not saying this is the best movie ever, but it definitely kept me interested.
Colin Farrell plays a big hot shot show biz type who thinks the world begins and ends with him. After noticing his behavior and how he treats others, someone decides to knock him down a few pegs. The man who decides to teach him a lesson (Kiefer Sutherland) traps our star in a phone booth by threatening to shoot him with a very high powered riffle if he dares to hang up the phone. After he has our star's complete and total attention, he makes him come clean to his wife, and the world proving that he is a fake who steps on people to get what he wants. Sutherland is a very good voice actor and one of my favorites. This movie is a pretty good time, and it's nice to see a jerk get what's coming to him. The character is whom I'm speaking of, not Colin Farrell.
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Summary: a tour-de-force performance by Farrell
Review: starts out as Farrell's strolling down the block talking on a cell phone, talking to his pal, then he goes to a phone booth and calls Katie Holmes, whos hes seeing on the side, then it becomes really good with Kiefer on the other line, tempting Farrell not to hang up or leave or he will be sniped down. Then there's these hookers and their pimp and the pimp gets shot and the police come and the cameras. Farrell's wife comes. (Radha Mitchell( Pitch Black and High Art). Farrell gives a good shattering in the phone booth performance, but the ending is sort of like, WHAT!!!, buts its a good flick
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