Have you ever been walking past a ringing pay phone and felt compelled to pick it up?

Well, that’s how the movie “Phone Booth” initiates a great premise for its storyline.

This fast-paced, intense drama races nonstop toward a very edge-of-your-seat conclusion.

“Phone Booth”stars up and coming actor Colin Farrell as Stu Shepard, a skanky entertainment industry-public relations guy from the Bronx.

You may recall Farrell’s work in big screen favorites such as “Daredevil” opposite Ben Affleck, “The Recruit” opposite Al Pacino and “Minority Report,” also starring another Hollywood icon, Tom Cruise.

Well, in this movie Farrell comes into his own. He truly arrives in “Phone Booth” by basically being the only box office draw in a movie with otherwise mediocre actors.

Forest Whitaker is cast to play a police chief in charge of the stand off situation that confines Stu Shepard to a phone booth. Shepard is bound to this particular phone booth because of his illicit and deceitful lifestyle.

At one point Shepard gives a police officer a pair of high end Britney Spears tickets for a favor. As the two part ways, the officer tells him, “You put the ho in show business.”

The only reason he goes into the phone booth is to make a phone call, an untraceable phone call to his client / love interest Kelly played by Katie Holmes.

The twist comes when the sniper decides to take matters into his own hands and tells Stu in order to get out of the booth alive, he must call his wife and confess to her about his attempts at infidelity.

Although this movie takes place on one city block in New York and primarily inside a phone booth, it ventures deep into the minds of the characters, providing lots of depth and background enabling movie viewers to empathize with the situations depicted in the movie.

Director Joel Schumacher has provided viewers with an all around great movie, much like he has in the past.

“Phone Booth” is a roller coaster of a movie with plenty of highs, loops and thrills to keep audiences glued to the edge of their seats for the entire 90-minute-ride.