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Rating:  300 reviews
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2223507000
EAN: 5039036033701
ASIN: B000O771W4
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: December 16, 2008
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By some lucky quirk of fate, Phone Booth landed on Hollywood's A-list, but this thriller should've been a straight-to-video potboiler directed by its screenwriter, veteran schlockmeister Larry Cohen, who's riffing on his own 1976 thriller God Told Me To. Instead it's a pointless reunion for fast-rising star Colin Farrell and his Tigerland director, Joel Schumacher, who employs a multiple-image technique similar to TV's 24 to energize Cohen's pulpy plot about an unseen sniper (maliciously voiced by 24's Kiefer Sutherland) who pins his chosen victim (a philandering celebrity publicist played by Farrell) in a Manhattan phone booth, threatening murder if Farrell doesn't confess his sins (including a potential mistress played by Katie Holmes in a thankless role). In a role originally slated for Jim Carrey, Farrell brings vulnerable intensity to his predicament, but Cohen's irresistible premise is too thin for even 81 brisk minutes, which is how long Schumacher takes to reach his morally repugnant conclusion. --Jeff Shannon
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 Farrell: booth phony June 1, 2010
Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In Joel Schumacher's PHONE BOOTH (2002), unibrowed Colin Farrell makes a stink leading man. To be fair however, no matter which actor got trapped at that pay phone, this film about an unseen sniper (Kiefer Sutherland) obsessed with forcing liars and cheaters to publicly admit their venalities would be just as insipid.
How stupid can the guy Farrell is playing be? There's probably a half dozen ways within the first five minutes for him to thwart the shooter by escaping, but this fool never tries anything crafty. Instead he hangs around long enough to be hemmed in by a wall of cops, frothing media types and assorted no-life Looky Lous. Clearly, as a publicity agent he's a slow-witted cipher so devoid of original thought it's little wonder that blatant canards and buckets of manure are his stock in trade.
In hindsight, can you believe that not one, but TWO babes have the hots for this loser? I sure can't!
Then we have the supporting cast. Hey, you want trashy? How about three skanky whoo-urs dropping the F bomb about 300 times in 15 minutes. Is torture your thing? Check out the flop sweat pouring off of Forest Whittaker's detective in charge. He looks almost embarrassed to be involved in this nonsense.
Do us all a great favor, Kiefer: zero in on that guy holding the pay phone receiver and pull the darn trigger!
 All you gotta do is tell the truth May 24, 2010
Matt (MS)
I've wanted this movie on blu ray ever since I watched the movie. I bought this back in December. Great story and great movie. Just tell the truth!
Intense May 10, 2010
David A. Smith (Webberville, Mi, USA)
this is an awesome movie it's intense and a edge of your seat thriller. irecommend people to see it
Superb in every way January 11, 2010
Calamity Jane
Only a producer, director and actors of excellence can pull off a movie in which 99% of the action takes place within a small phone booth on a city street. The film is riveting. The suspense never ends and the tension continues to mount in a way that cannot be described in a review. Colin Farrell and Keifer Sullivan are perfect as the stalked and the stalker. There are moments when bit players come on scene to harass the already frantic and trapped Farrell. The execution is superb. This is a movie you don't want to miss.
This is one movie where I preferred the full version to the widescreen. The suspense is better captured from one window of action than it is with two.
Phone Booth January 3, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A phone call can change your life, but for one man it can also end it. Set entirely within and around the confines of a New York City phone booth, thriller follows Stu Shepard, a low-rent media consultant who is trapped after being told by a caller - a serial killer with a sniper rifle - that he'll be shot dead if he hangs up.A sudden and shocking act of violence near the booth draws the attention of the police, who arrive backed with a small army of sharpshooters. They believe that Stu, not the unseen caller of whom they remain unaware, is the dangerous man with a gun.The senior officer on the scene, Captain Ramey, tries to talk Stu out of the booth. But unbeknownst to Ramey, his team, the media circus that has flocked to the site - and Stu's wife, Kelly, and his client /prospective girlfriend, Pamela - the caller has them all in his high-powered rifle sights. As afternoon turns into evening, Stu, the embodiment of an unethical, self-serving existence, must now undertake a sudden and unexpected moral evolution. He is emotionally stripped naked by the caller. Stu's lies, half-truths, and obfuscation no longer matter. Instead, he must dig deep into his soul, find his strength and attempt to outwit the caller, taking the game to an even more dangerous level. This movie is one of the best thrillers in years high concept, original, and completely unpredictable.
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