Phone Booth (DVD)

...top of the pile was Phone Booth. I must admit to being one of those slightly annoying people who know very little about films, other than “knowing what I like.” Well, I like Phone Booth. It was always going to stand a good chance of success with me once I had looked at the cast list. Any film featuring Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whittaker and Katie Holmes is certainly going to grab my attention. Especially Katie Holmes! There is no doubt ...
...man. Stu reaches the phone booth in question in the first few minutes of the film. Being the sort of guy that he is, he uses the booth to call a client of his, Pamela McFadden, so that no records of his call are available on his mobile. He removes his wedding ring before making the call and the viewer again gets a message that says here we have a man thinking of cheating on his wife. Pamela McFadden is played by Katie Holmes of Dawson’s Creek ...

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...a man stuck in a phone booth be exciting? I guess that was the question on my mind, with such a simple idea, could it be kept exciting without losing any of it’s appeal? Without knowing much beforehand about this movie, one could easily dismiss this as slow and boring, common sense would make you think there couldn’t possibly be any car chases, huge explosions or so how on Earth could this movie be under the action/thriller genre? Well that’s one ...
...he can make a private phone call from a phone booth. He does have a cell phone but he always phones a certain woman called Pamela McFadden from that same phone booth every single day. Pamela is an actress wanting to make it big and Stu says he’s going to help her. Obviously being the dishonest man that he is, he obviously only wants to help her for one thing and one thing only. The reason he uses this phone booth and not his cell phone is because ...

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...you ever been in a phone booth and the phone has rung? If so, did you answer it? And if you’ve not been in that situation, would you answer it? Chances are that you did or would, and it was a boring wrong number. But would you do it again after watching Phone Booth? Phone Booth opens with the best opening credits I’ve seen in a long time. It takes the hustle and bustle of New York, throws in some lettering and splits the screen into a hundred blocks ...
...more when he enters the phone booth he enters each day to call a naïve young woman he is promising to make into a star but really just wants to sleep with. He uses the booth to call her as his wife checks his cellphone records. So far it’s just an ordinary day of lying, cheating and making money. And then a pizza is delivered to the booth. It is for him. And then the phone in the booth rings. Either out of curiosity, or as an automatic reaction ...

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Phone Booth was a movie that drifted from director to director for a few years. Pearl Har’bores’ Michael Bay was interested but apparently wanted to take the film out of the phone booth. Stars such as Jim Carrey were also attached at one point. Then it landed into the lap of Joel Schumacher, he’d just worked with Colin Farrell on Tigerland, it got good reviews and hence the movie was made in only 12 days. This is a concept movie revolving around ...
...his regular call from the phone booth and is surprised to see a pizza delivered to him. Next the phone rings and a commanding voice tells him not to hang up the phone, Stu dismisses the caller as a nutter but soon realizes that the caller has a rifle pointed straight at Stu. Soon there’s a dead body, the police show up and Stu is at the centre of media frenzy, as he can’t leave the booth for fear of being shot. Plus the women in his life have turned ...

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...you walk past an empty phone box, the phone inside rings? You might in the past have been tempted to see if it is a wrong number, or something more interesting. Perhaps you would think again having seen Phone Booth. The movie starts with a silly bit of CGI showing you the route to the satellite your next call might take; this is the worst thing in the film though. The opening credits redeem the whole thing, anyway - huge horizontal tower blocks ...
...approaches a metal and glass phone box - the regular type, with a sliding door. Our voice-over introduction tells us he will be the last inhabitant of said booth, and it will be destroyed on the morrow. It won't be long before we are hearing more than that voice... This is a very decent concept movie, tying in with recent people-in-peril situations, but turning the idea right on its head. For one, the whole action from now on takes place within ...

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Finally, Phone Booth has arrived in our cinemas. After months of speculation about how they could possibly make the seemingly easily exhaustible plot into an entire film, the answer became clear. Yes, they managed it all right, but only, it seems, by making the film incredibly short. 81 minutes is definitely at the lower end of the range of film lengths, but trust me, it seems much longer... Meet Stu Shepard. Stu is a relatively unimportant New ...
...he goes to the same phone booth in the same street, removes his wedding ring (you see, he obviously has a conscience) and phones his girlfriend Pam. But one day, Stu's life takes a dramatic turn - as he is leaving the phone booth, the phone starts to ring. Curiously, he picks up the phone, and finds himself speaking to a sniper threatening to kill him if he leaves the booth - he must do exactly as the sniper says if he wants to stay alive... So, ...

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...publicist, who answers a ringing phone in the titular phone booth only to be told that if he hangs up, a sniper will pick him off. It’s a simple concept that makes for an effective thriller and it’s certainly topical. The finished film has been sitting on the shelf since 2000. Its release was originally delayed in the wake of the World Trade Center bombing and was subsequently pushed back after the Washington sniper attacks last year. Thankfully ...
...of the time in the phone box with one man. Fortunately, that man is the rather charismatic Colin Farrell. He is finally allowed to showcase his full acting range, which is considerable. Thankfully, this is a rather more subtle performance than his hammy turn in “Daredevil”. His character comes across as a likeable if somewhat cocky rogue, rather than the amoral scumbag he may have become with a heavier-handed performance. As a result, we sympathise ...

afy9mab 22.04.2003 · Read full review
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...much entirely set in a phone booth... How good can it be? I asked myself when it was first released. People told me to watch it, and I thought why not, but for some odd reason it's taken me until it was on television last night to watch it. The film starts off with a publicist (Stu, played by Colin Farrell) who the audience instantly takes a dislike to because of the way he is treating people. WE see a few more minutes of a little background of the ...
...on Stu and makes the phone call in a typical psycho menacing voice. That's all that needs to be said on the story. For a relatively simple plot, this film has a enough twists and dilemmas for Stu to make Jigsaw turn in his recent grave, and it certainly keeps you glued to your seat right up to the last nerve racking moment, unlike make films of a similar genre which lose momentum, sometimes because they're too long, this, although it sounds short; ...

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...end of the line. Phone Booth is thrilling from start to finish, whether it's the opening ten minutes, which is used for character development, or the rest of the movie, which is literally all action, you're going to be entertained. I am one of the people that dislikes a slow character progression, and prefers the main action of the film to be longer than the fifteen minutes at the end of the movie. Phone Booth compliments these qualities excellently. ...
...to a broader audience, but Phone Booth doesn't resort to such scenes. Rather than that, it makes you think. I found myself considering the options and possibilities several times throughout the film. However, saying that I can appreciate that there are several things that other people might not like. Some could consider the film to drag along in the same scene, however to that I would retort that the film is based around a phone booth. It would ...

Marshwwf316 19.08.2003 · Read full review
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...wife (Radha Mitchell) checks his phone bills, Stu steps into a phone booth near Times Square everyday to call Pam (Katie Holmes), a pretty, young actress. In this overtly moralistic fable, Stu's extramarital sins are limited to taking off his wedding ring for his daily phone calls. In other words, Stu has merely coveted someone else, but it is for his falseness that director Joel Schumacher and writer Larry Cohen want Stu to be punished. One fateful ...
...rifle and has bugged the phone booth. Stu tries to pay the caller off with free publicity and cash, but that offer is merely superficial. This moral sniper objects to the way Stu uses people and wants him to confess his disloyalty to his wife and his marital status to his possible girlfriend. Stu becomes a prisoner to both the caller and his own lies. The makers of 'Phone Booth' made some interesting choices in this film, not all of which worked. ...

OKkaraoke 23.04.2003 · Read full review
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...he has to make a phone call so he walks over to the nearest booth. There is not a lot of scenery in this film mainly it is just a phone booth in New York City and the film doesn?t begin immediately because there are a lot of facts about phones at the start and pictures and a picture by satellite like in Enemy Of The State. I read that this film was filmed in approximately 2 weeks because of the small amount of scenery. The main part was the phone ...
...be just Colin in the phone booth the whole time but it was. The film was fantastic though and not much scenery still proved that it could be a great film. The film lasted about 81 minutes which I feel was probably enough because anymore and the audience would have lost interest. Back to the story. Colin's character is not honest at all and as soon as he picks up the receiver he gets told all of this by the person on the other end who makes him feel ...

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...chatting away on his mobile phone to clients & people that work for him, brushing aside people that know him & annoy him as he goes, trying to blag some big money deals. He talks so fast it is hard to really follow what is happening, but soon enough we expect him to be dumbstruck. He enters the phone booth, which we already know is to be the centre of attention for this film, & takes off his ring, so that he can call up his mistress (played by Katy ...
...be delivered to that specific phone booth. Frankly the idea that someone would actually go ahead & take that order is quite silly, but anyway, he does. After a long argument, lots of swearing & pushing the poor man away, he eventually pays him to go away. Then the phone rings. Stu's mistake is to answer the call. Somebody knows a lot about this man & is about to completely destroy his life. Worst still, the caller is a sniper. Perhaps he should have ...

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...around a guy in a phone booth, directed by Joel schumacher, possibly what drew me to watch it, was the compelling mystery, "How do you make a film that features a New York phone booth", and nothing else, besides the cast members. Well i wouldn't say i was disapointed. Synopsis Stu Shepard(Colin farrell) is an up and coming succesful Publicist, he has a large bank balance, great clothes and an attitude, he has everyone following him, and he lies ...
...except he uses an unsuspecting phone booth to call her, afraid his fun will be over if his wife found out. Whilst making his daily call to Pam, Stu finds himself trapped inside the booth, when he picks up a call, on the other end is a voice, he doesn't recognise it, he cant believe it at first, but this caller, is a sniper, and he's pointing a gun right at Stu's head, with what appears to be no motive, stu is confused, and forced to believe what ...

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...for help via his cell phone are almost as dangerous as if he were to hang up altogether, and at one point suffers a pierced ear thanks to a sniper's bullet. Sutherland's character also 'takes out' a bouncer from the strip joint-cum-brothel across the road, whilst he threatens to lay into Farrell with a baseball bat. Farrell is then deemed the murderer by those who witnessed it, and now it seems that he is the man the police are after. The NYPD arrive, ...
...enables SWAT teams to congregate around the buildings of New York as word spreads that there is a 'Sniper Situation' when eventually the phoneline is found, and Farrell is the target. But Farrell's character still cannot hang up, for risk of being murdered, and the location of Sutherland's character is still as clear as mud, so he toys with Farrell some more, blackmailing him into confessing his private life to not only his wife, but now a watching ...

carl.mcqueen 23.09.2005 · Read full review
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...phones her regularly from a phone booth, and unknown to him he is being watched by a sniper. On the day in question, the sniper calls Stu when he's in the phone booth and threatens to kill him if he leaves the booth or does not do as he says. As the story unravels it turns out that Stu, seemingly harmless has angered the sniper because of the way he lives, how he ultimately lives a false life, and most importantly, that he cannot recognise this. ...
...is mainly set in a phone booth (hence the name!). This sounded initially like it could get boring but it really doesn't, it actually makes it more intense as you don't have to understand places and characters (as there's few of them too), so all the action is on the sniper and his conversation with Stu. Length - The film was a great length for me, 81 minutes was long enough to get a full storyline in there successfully and keep it snappy and full ...

sophie2506 24.04.2003 · Read full review
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