Do not hang up! is one of those films that keeps appearing on TV with remarkable persistence. However, the thriller directed by Joel Schumacher has not been taken seriously for a long time. When it comes to the great representative of the genre goes, nowadays mostly other names are mentioned.
This is certainly also due to the fact that Do not hang up! very a child of his time is. The images, the editing and the story have all the hallmarks of a film that was released in 2002 and therefore feels dated. However, two decades after its publication, Schumacher’s thriller has lost none of its energy.
Do not hang up! delivers high voltage with a distraught Colin Farrell in a New York City phone booth
The plot of Don’t hang up! throws us right into the pulsating streets of New York. Here, the arrogant media agent Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) struts around like he owns the entire city. But the truth is very different: Empty promises and cheap excuses characterize Stu.
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Do not hang up! – Trailer (German) HD
The braggart tells fairy tales not only to his clients. He is also anything but honest with his own wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), as becomes clear through the affair with actress Pamela (Katie Holmes). But then he gets one mysterious callwho puts his behavior to the test.
Before he knows it, Stu finds himself stuck in a New York City payphone negotiating life or death with an unknown caller. The entire city is usually his playground. But now Stu has to get up a single square meter ask the question whether he is a good or a bad person.
Schumacher takes no prisoners: don’t hang up! is an adrenaline-packed thriller that beautifully combines the hustle and bustle of the city on a cinematic level with the tense situation in the telephone booth. The result is a nervous moviewhich brings out the maximum of vibrating moments of tension from its simple premise.
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