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Its PHONEBOOTH filmed at a Hot Dog Cart
by BIG TRUCK SERIES (movies profile)
Jun 22, 2005
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2 people found this review helpful
For all of you people out there who loved PHONEBOOTH, Liberty Stands Still is the movie for you.
I'm not sure who came up with it first but the premise is the same. A crazed sniper holds a person hostage in a confined area and makes them repent for their sins while they casualy pick off oppurtune targets.
In this film, Liberty, an heiress to an American gun manufacturing buisiness is held hostage by Snipes because he blames her company for the death of his daughter. She is forced to stand cuffed to a hotdog cart while Snipes threatens her and her boyfriend with two very large bombs. He demands she make a public recorded apology which would be a public gun rights debate. However, the heiresses husband's CIA goons attempt to kill her off.
Wesley Snipes makes for a convincing crazed sniper with his hoarse voice and sociopathic ramblings. He has pretty good lines in the movie. In fact, this movie because of snipes felt far superior to Phonebooth which was an overhyped mess of a film that many people complained about. The visuals and acting of the characters are great and feature very well edited footage of people being sniped. It was so exciting that I grabbed my rifle out the closet and peeked out my window for a squirrel. (no kidding)
My only dissapointment was that the story was open ended and doesn't easily let your imagination determine what will happen next.
I was also suprised that the police would have so much trouble locating a sniper in the top floor of a building in an urban jungle.
Other than that, the movie was fun and is definately worth a watch. I just wish I could get a rifle and silencer like the one in the film because if I could, the squirrels wouldn't stand a chance. |
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