Phone Booth 2003 (DVD: 77mins)

For a film confined almost entirely  to one tiny location, Phone Booth has been the centre of a lot of off-screen action: changing lead man from Will Smith to Jim Carrey  to Colin Farrell, with various Actors such as Forest Whitaker and Kiefer Sutherland and finally, postponed as a result of the Washington Sniper Attacks and all this before its release. Still, Larry Cohen's taut 80 min script finally hits the screens and, as public utility based thrillers go, it's gripping stuff.

Colin Farrell plays slick and obnoxious PR man Stu Shepard whos picks up a ringing payphone only to be informed by a mysterious sniper (Kiefer Sutherland) that there's a gun pointed directly at him. What Stu initially belives to be a joke turns about a vendetta from the sniper who objects  to married Stu's philandering ways, and it soon escalates  into a prime-time TV siege.

Colin Farrell gives a compelling central performance, which runs the emotional gamut from anger to fear to anguish and even carries off a cheesy absolution scene. KS's husky baddie voiceover is not exactly the stuff of nightmare's but, like the rest of the film, you could do alot worse. As pure as popcorn thriller, Phone Booth hits all the right buttons.

Overall, this is a great movie to watch on a Saturday Evening, with a glass of wine or a pint of beer and a curry. Enjoy the moment!

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