Enter a 7ft * 4ft Phone booth. All is well with Stu (Colin Farell), until a phone buzzes off just to find him at the receiver’s end. Tartarus destined its fury on this Publicist with this phone and a sweet, ambidextrous & demagogue personality finds his being in the worst & corked place he could have ever imagined to be in.
For the ocean in which the Movie’s Ship sailed had violent currents, the theme of the movie adopted the punch line, ’’ For every phone that rings, It has to be answered.’’ Although it seems to be a one liner snatched out of Dubyas parlance, Nevertheless the movie promises satisfying 80-minute, fast-paced sequences of events.
A tangy cinema gesticulated by Director Joel Schumacher hooked the audience in harbinger of thrilling events. Joel caught the audiences in traps through his impeccable story and although the climax was vague, it’s definitely worth a watch. Joel garnered the talent of acting from Colin right from the first shot of the movie that was heard of being completed in just 10 days.
Stu had a tough time answering the buzz and while this happened, the director brought a simple trap for the movie to stretch its way. Stu couldn’t move out of the wooden frame for if he did, it would just be ferrying a tragic event by a sniper (oops!) to the people around him. Radha Mitchell (evidently not an Indian from anywhere) played Kelly (Wife of Stu). Interestingly, as there were no possibilities of A-rated scenes in the movie, the director had to live up to the expectations of citizens for they might dislike the movie had he not brought Katie Holmes just as an extra add on.
Joel essayed the idea of eliciting the hidden masks of an individual through this laconically made flick. For all one can describe, the mask of any one indulges and hides in accomplishing secret desires and what one limns for contradistinguishing is actually a sham for garnering praise. Stewart too was a case of such a normal human disdainful quality and his lies that were undead hitherto in the foyer of his creepy mind were bludgeoned in the eyes of the whole of the city through media and live presence.
The background music was crisp and flowing with the pace of the movie that asks not more than 2 hours in totality. This also includes your drive from the Auditorium to home and vice-versa along with the painting that our fairer sex need to do before any event is supposed to happen.
Colin emerged out to be the solo winner of the mind-frissoning flick. Just in the hindsight it is made clear that he was the only instrument that could have blown off the mind though his Oh-So-original acting and even his hairdo was influential enough for me to make it an epitome to my hair dresser. His acting was awesome, efficacious and arresting. Kudos to him. It takes some mettle to flow out for the kind of acting he did was dazzling. More so of the fact that there were 4 sharp shooters (camera of course) surrounding him while he was shooting and such a framework could have easily sent Star sons (if they ever acted in a Holly Film) to grab the nearest WC. Forest Whitaker was good enough in his role of Captain and his left eye seemed more down to earth than before.(No Jokes)
All in all, an arresting flick that runs as fast as cheetah and drives the chill in your elastic spines as and when it can. Definitely worth a watch and with movies like Tere Naam, KMG etc thronging the cinema for no good reason, This one comes as a big relief to cinemaniacs like me.
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