Phone Booth (2003)

Everyone has raging cases of Stupiditis in this film, from the prostitutes to the cops to the innocent bystanders. Kiefer Sutherland pulls out all the stops in the first few minutes of his voice-on-the-other-end part and has gives himself nowhere to go…he’s stuck with doing more of the same 'til the end. Colin Farrell's increasingly sweaty desperation is believable -- but who cares? It's like finding a passage of beautiful longing and poetry in the middle of a Harlequin romance novel: it's just wasted effort that should have been employed elsewhere.

D-