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Review Phone Booth (2003) w/ Collin Farrel and Kiefer Sutherland

In Hollywood, there are few people who have great sinister voices, and you can count Kiefer Sutherland as one of them, and he plays his voice to perfection in the new thriller which stars Irish actor Collin Farrell in probably what may be his best role to date.

Fresh, hip, and hot actor Collin Farrell plays, Stu Shepard, a low-rent media consultant, who seems to have the hookups of everything, from Concert tickets to hotlines to the hottest celebrities. He is simply Mr. Popular, and his life simply revolves around his cell phone.

Undaunted, his life changes for the worst when he enters a New York City Phone Booth to answer a random call, but sighted within his sights is at the beginning an unseen Sniper voiced by Sutherland, with a rifle aimed right at Stu's head.

When an innocent bystander gets gunned down, everyone around thinks Stu is the Sniper, and a classic standoff begins with the Sniper, Stu, and the police, led by brilliant actor Forest Whitaker.

If Stu hangs up the phone he is dead, but if he hangs on to the phone, Police swat want to end Stu's life as well.

In a cat and mouse struggle and the media hungry press, bring his wife, played by Pitch Black's Radha Mitchell and his girlfriend, played by Katie Holmes.

Phone Booth is a classic Hitchcock type of film, that you can't afford to take a break, otherwise you'd miss this good movie.

Recommended very highly, Phone Booth was slated for release last year, but was pushed back because of the Washington DC Sniper attacks of last year.

Phone Booth is rated 'R' for language and violence.

My rating: a 9.75 out of 10.

coming to theatres: April 4, 2003
Distributor:20th Century Fox

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nice review just wants me to want the see the movie even more



i wonder how much money Collin Farrell has made in last 2 years hes been in so many great movies with him at top notch acting

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He is up to $5-10 million a pic range..but after this year he could do $14 to $20 million a pic.

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men if those basterds in holly, din't move the date like 50 times we would have already watched it ,,

true....saw this last year, before the sniper incident, but moved review out when saw release date was nearing

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I live in Montgomery County (Sniper Attacks were in Montgomery County, not DC, but Mont. County is part of the suburbs) and the Snipers took a lot of fun out of a whole month basically. Believe it or not, they started the shootings on my mom's birthday and she got SO WORRIED, we couldn't go to a nice restaurant! I guess I feel mixed about them moving the release date on Phone Booth, maybe it's just bad luck for Colin Farrell! (Didn't Hart's War get moved also, because of September 11th?) I love some Joel Schumacher movies, though I wasn't nuts about Bad Company. I was REALLY looking forward to Bad Company because it had two of my fav. actors, Sir Hopkins and Chris Rock, but it didn't turn out well. I hope Joel Schumacher gets back to his old ways with Phone Booth because movies like "The Rock" kicked ass!

this movie is a total ripoff of a movie called liberty stand still with wesley snipes, cool idea tho

I couldn't wait for this movie last year and I still can't wait for it. Collin Farrell and Keifer are such good actors. Thanks for the review. Rating pretty close to a 10 .

Majority of Movie takes place in that Phone Booth, makes it interesting and original.

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Is it boring that there just camering Collin in the Phone Booth or do they play it out really well?

Cmon answer me

Sorry m8, didn't see ur post, majority of the movie does take place in a phone booth, and yes i thought they played it out very well.

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Originally posted by MovieGod
Majority of Movie takes place in that Phone Booth, makes it interesting and original.

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I saw a trailer for this a long time ago and I wanted to see it so badly. When is the release date for this movie? This is a movie I will have to pay to go and see! hehe.

Looked awesome, and with your review it sounds very interesting. These are the types of movies that I love.

this movies 2002, just a FYI

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i know...I c where u r going..yes u r right..won't touch that one.

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Amazing movie. I agree with your rating.

oooooooooh yes..this movie rocked

9.5 out of 10

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A very good movie, especially considering that almost the entire movie takes place in and around a phone booth.

My Rating: 9.0/10

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love the review
loved the movie

9/10