Phone Booth
This little psychological experiment has some of the flavor of Joel Schumacher’s somewhat similar, if much superior, urban drama “Falling Down.” It’s a simple story of a stalker/sniper making life miserable for slimy publicist Colin Farrell, engagingly filmed and well-acted enough to entertain during its brisk 80-minute running time. Farrell and Kiefer Sutherland, as the voice of the sniper, manage to keep an 80-minute telephone conversation interesting and involving. While I know this is damning with faint praise, there are a lot worse ways you could spend 90 minutes in the theater right now.
Farrell told a great story while on The Daily Show last week about how Michael “Armageddon” Bay was once attached to direct the film. In his first story meeting, Bay said, “How soon can we get the guy out of the booth?”