Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Phone Booth seemed promising with its exciting, unorthodox, Matrix-style opening,…
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2003 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Phone Booth seemed promising with its exciting, unorthodox, Matrix-style opening, but then drudged slowly into the mediocre. Good concept, not great execution. The best developed character: the sniper, not the snipee.
With movies, such as Phone Booth and Big Trouble, that find their release dates pushed back because they find themselves too relevant, one hopes they're worth the bother. This one isn't. Don't spend too much money seeing it; I saw it for free and lost two hours of my life, but what else would I have done with that time?
