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Phone Booth (2003)
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Movie Review by Zara 
January 30th, 2007
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Ring Ring
I was recently in a restaurant where we spied a shadow on the wall. The shadow was actually the outline of a sign that had previously been installed, one that read "Phone." Due to the fact that everyone and their grandmother owns a cell phone these days, the restaurant had apparently deemed it worthy to remove their payphone. Too bad they hadn't decided to also paint the wall.
PHONE BOOTH centers around a married man who is carrying on an affair with one of his clients (he's some hot-shot publicist) and steps into a phonebooth to use the payphone to call her. When the phone rings before he can leave, he answers it, only to be told that there's a sharpshooter looking at him through a window, ready to do him in. The caller knows personal details about his life and starts threatening to use them againt the agent unless he gets what he wants.
Which is.... what? While the vocal performance of Keifer Sutherland is great (you've got to have a great voice if that's all that's going to get "seen"), Ferrell's posturing is just plain annoying. There are a few moments where you cringe and even one where you might hop a little in your seat, but for the most part this is a fairly TV-Movie affair.
Too tame to really be exciting and too self-absorbed to be all that relateable.
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 | Misty
Apr 17, 2007 2:29 PM
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Huh. I really liked it. But you know what I liked more? The way you started your review with a little story of something relateable, before going on to end your review by saying the movie wasn't. Now that's classic! :)
I'm not being sarcastic...I just read back and it sounded kind of sarcastic...but I really did like the way you did that...I'm a dork...nevermind. |
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