OK, this movie is like a train wreck. It came on HBO the other day and I started watching it, and just could not stop. Then my wife decides we need to go out to dinner right in the middle of it. I am not interested enough to go rent it, but could some nice person tell me how it ends? Please don’t make me have to go rent it and waste more time. But I can’t stop wondering if the guy in the booth gets killed, I doubt it knowing hollywood. Or if the sniper gets away. And just why he cares so much about a stranger cheating on his wife. Please, enquiring minds want to know. 
The guy in the phone booth melts down a little. Comes to realize he’s an ass. Admits it to everyone, including his wife.
Cops catch on that someone is making go through all this. Eventually the cops think they catch th guy on the phone, but they have the wrong guy.
The guy who was on the phone (Kiefer Sotherland) walks by the guy in the booth as they’re putting him in an ambulance, says something and disappears into the crowd.
Thanks Kevja! 
The thing he says is something along the lines of “Don’t screw up again because I’ll be watching”
The sniper’s motives are never made clear beyond a power trip.
I just saw this (terrible) movie on cable for the first time last night and I have a question.
When Colin Farrell is talking to Katie Holmes and his wife on the telephone, sometimes you can hear what the women are saying, but most of the time you cannot. I found this very annoying. My girlfriend claims it wasn’t like this when she saw it in the theater; she says you could always hear what the women were saying. Why on Earth would they change that?
Kiefer Sutherland has been holed up across the street but orders a pizza. He kills the delivery guy so when the cops break into his hiding spot they think the delivery guy was the killer and that he has offed himself.
The EMTs have given Colin Farrell a shot to relax him when the standoff is over, so that when Kiefer Sutherland comes by and talks to him and he realizes that KS is the killer, he can’t alert the police. One of those really frustrating moments as he struggles to tells someone and KS melts into the crowd. And KS is off to call someone else out on their shortcomings.
I don’t know, I liked it a lot. I thought Colin Farrell was amazing in that phone booth. Not just a drunken pretty boy after all!
And while I will watch Forrest Whitacker in anything, I’m getting tired of him sleepwalking through unchallenging roles and hope he does something meatier in front of the camera soon.
I liked it, too. Then again, I have a major crush on both Kiefer Sutherland and Colin Farrell, so I admit I’m biased.
A similarly-themed movie is Liberty Stands Still, starring Linda Fiorentino and Wesley Snipes. Neither movie is very good, IMHO. In Liberty, the sniper’s motives are made clear, which is nice. However, the movie ultimately comes across as preachy, anti-gun propaganda. YMMV.
I didn’t even need to see Liberty to get that. It was blantely obvious from the trailers.
Kind of like “John Q”. An interesting idea killed by being too preachy.
I actually liked the movie quite a bit.
I thought it was pretty tense and I like the fact that Colin Farell’s character turned out to be a complete fraud who trampled everybody that got in his way.
By the way : I despise Colin Farell, but I think he did pretty well in this movie.
The freakin’ movie soundtrack is mixed in stereo with the two voices panned hard right and hard left. If you don’t have full stereo capabilities, then you miss one or the other sides of the conversation. I learned this after watching the movie twice, with a sound system the second time. Although the conversations are part of the plot, obviously you can get along with out them. They do fill in a few details, however.