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| Taught, Original, Daring, very entertaining (by jigshaun) |
| I saw the premiere of "Phone Booth" at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and I LOVED IT! It's unusual for a feature like this to even show at the TIFF, which should say something about it. I know it sounds like a hard sell. The whole thing takes place outside a phone booth in Manhattan, and it was shot in 10 days for less than 2 million dollars. But this movie is electric. It BLEW ME AWAY! Stuart `Stu' Shepard Colin Farrell , a sleazy publicist, uses this phone booth to call his girlfriend, because his wife checks his cell phone bills. The phone rings, and when <more> |
| One of my most favourite films (by springsunnywinter) |
| At first I thought the film was going to be just a normal thriller but it turned out to be a thousand times better than I expected. The film is truly original and was so dark & sinister that gives the tensive mood also it is emotionally & psychologically thrilling, the whole movie is charged with pulse pounding suspense and seems like it's really happening. It's amazing that how they managed to make an 80 minute movie with just a guy in a phone booth but the full credit goes to Colin Farrell and Larry Cohen the writer not Joel Schumacher because he is a crappy director. Joel <more> |
| Great movie!A must see! (by Movie Nuttball) |
| The Phone Booth is a very clever and unusual movie. Decent acting from the cast including a great performance from Colin Farrell! Forest Whitaker was very good.Kiefer Sutherland was excellent!The performances from Radha Mitchell,Katie Holmes,and Paula Jai Parker were good.I like how the film had the Hulk like split screens.I also like that fact that it focused on the victim and the killer almost the entire hour and twenty-one minutes!The end is just unbelievable! Joel Schumacher is a very good director in My opinion and this movie deserves a lot of attention in My opinion.If you want a short <more> |
| Gosh! And 10 days was all it took to be filmed!! (by what3v3r) |
| Colin Farrell is a self-professed star publicist with an attitude to boot. Watch 81 minutes of gut-wrenching nerve-wracking dialog reduce a pretentious "kiss my ass" punk into an enervated and regretful reprobate. Farrell is simply awesome in portraying the gravity of the situation. "The Caller"'s voice is absolutely worth a mention. Calm, creepy and authoritative! Something different and the movie would have fallen flat on its 'flab less' anterior. Sutherland plays 'The Caller', manning a high profile sniper rifle, while he thrusts honesty upon Stu <more> |
| Hitchcock & Kafka Meet In Times Square Via Larry Cohen's Pen (by dtb) |
| Contains Spoiler A tense, taut, darkly funny 81-minute package of Hitchcockian suspense set in New York City although the scenes specifically involving the phone booth were filmed in Los Angeles, the art direction and veteran thriller genius Larry Cohen's biting script gave those scenes a very convincing Times Square ambience. It really reminded me of the seedy Times Square of my youth! :- , PHONE BOOTH is a film that everyone in front of and behind the camera should be proud of. In particular, it's a tour de force for Colin Farrell and Kiefer Sutherland. Farrell, doing a good Bronx <more> |
| Top film (by adam_evans14) |
| I don't know whether its just me or are the films in which situations are presented from the beginning of the films to the end spark more interest. Speed, Saw, and Phone Booth all present situations where you cant help but become intrigued to how it'll pan out or be solved.Phone Booth as you may have guessed is set within a phone booth. Coline Farrel enters the booth a cocky,confident man, and leaves it with a very different attitude. So how can a film which is primarly set in a phone booth keep you hooked for 80 minutes. Well early in the film a man is shot, in public and witnesses <more> |
| Entertaining and full of suspense! (by bostonboy) |
| This is the kind of movie that is rare these days. It didn't cost an arm and a leg to make, it stars some good actors and the story line was plausible.The Hitchcock influence is obvious and the pacing of the film was just right. This is the best work of director Schumacher. The lead could have been played by any yuppie looking actor but Colin Farrell does a good job anyway in a role that puts you in his character's place.It's hard to make a movie work when it takes place in a confined space with few characters, but when those movies succeed, it shows. And that's how it is with <more> |
| One Way To Get Your Message Across! (by ccthemovieman-1) |
| I only looked at this because a friend loaned it to me so, at zero cost, what could I lose? Well, it was a lot better than I anticipated. Oddly, even though it's only 80 minutes long, I think this could have been better with about 10 minutes chopped off. It starts to repeat itself too much near the end. You have to remember, almost the whole film takes place within a phone booth!Colin Farrell does a super job playing a sleazy guy held captive in the phone booth by a threatening sniper-caller. The story, although simple, holds your attention because there is great suspense, innovative <more> |
| Farrell is great (by rbverhoef) |
| Stu Shepard Colin Farrell uses a pay phone to call his mistress Katie Holmes and after he hung up the phone rings. He picks it up, of course, and learns that there is a sniper on the other side of the line. When he hangs up the sniper will shoot him, so he is told. Before he entered the booth we saw Stu talking on his cell phone as a PR-man, constantly lying to people. The sniper has observed Stu and thinks he deserves to die.When the sniper demonstrates he is real by shooting a pimp near the booth the police arrives and thinks Stu is the shooter. Capt. Ramey Forest Whitaker slowly <more> |