Excellent adaptation.

Better than most people think

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Joel Schumacher is a strange case- On the one hand he has made stinkers like Batman and Robin, he's also been responsible for films such as Falling Down and St. Elmo's Fire. Phonebooth falls somewhere in the middle in that it is a well-paced thriller that you can watch on an idle afternoon and even enjoy it but won't remember it again. Colin Farrell is in top form, but Whitaker and Holmes are wasted.

Oh, this was utterly boring. One great big talkie, and they talked about stuff I really didn't care about. This was stupid. Just stupid! It became repetitive and boring. I couldn't wait for this tedious slow-moving-nothing-happening talkie to end, and when the ending finally came, I was like "Oh, whatever...next!"

A simple premise executed simply brilliantly, this taut, tense and genuinely gripping thriller does more with its single location, few key characters and short, concise 88-minute run-time than most pictures of the kind can even hope to achieve - doing so on an independent budget and with a shooting schedule of just ten days (with two days for pick-ups), to boot. On reflection, the narrative and certain character motivations of 'Phone Booth (2002)' may seem a little thin and a few of its bizarrely schlocky and very nineties elements stick out like sore thumbs - including a slightly nonsensical opening and ending which both have no place in a piece of this calibre. It's the in-the-moment intensity that rockets this experience up past most others in the genre, though, as it is an unpredictable, engaging and edge-of-your-seat thrill-ride throughout with a stellar lead performance and a fantastically frenzied pace. Highly entertaining, energetic stuff. 8/10

Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Although he did direct one of the dumbest superhero flicks ever made called "Batman & Robin" with "Phone Booth" Schumacher redeemed himself in front of my eyes and Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker and Kiefer Sutherland did a fantastic job plus the suspense was out of this world since each scene was more intense than the last one. Katie Holmes and Radha Mitchell also did a pretty decent job as well and people who love a really good thriller full of suspense and great acting will not be disappointed. Overall "Phone Booth" gets an A+