Word: snipering
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...voice goes on to inform Stu that he will be shot by a sniper if he leaves the booth. Unfortunately, the camera is also stuck in the phone booth. Now, this is a pretty nifty idea, filming an entire movie around one phone booth. Too bad Joel Schumacher traps us inside the glass with a whimpering Stu and an annoyingly conventional bad guy (Sample interaction: “Please please please, don’t do this to me! Please!” “No Stu! It’s too late...
Originally slated for release last November, Phone Booth was postponed until this weekend out of respect for the sniper crisis in Maryland and Virginia. Perhaps they should have canceled its release altogether. Phone Booth does raise some interesting million dollar questions (the power of technology, the conflicted nature of man, etc.) but overall, the movie isn’t worth the thirty-five cents needed to make a pay phone call. —Kristi L. Jobson
...first the Marines thought the pair was about to surrender--until they opened fire, that is. Instantly a Marine sniper climbed to the top of our Amtrak and lined up a shot, but the two men darted behind the cover of a sandy berm. Moments later, Sergeant Major David Howell, using an Amtrak for cover, sneaked up behind the soldiers as they came out to surrender and forced them to the ground...
...scouring villages and mountain caves for rebels. Soldiers have taken nine men into custody and captured a large cache of weapons, but prize targets?such as ex-Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and ex-Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar?continue to elude them. Meanwhile, they're facing increasingly ferocious sniper fire, ambushes in the field and more-frequent rocket attacks on their bases. (Soldiers aren't the only targets: the Red Cross suspended operations in the country after one of its workers was murdered by bandits last Friday...
...When the troops arrive there, the two-story green-and-lime building housing the Baath Party seems deserted. Then a sniper across the road starts firing on the convoy and is answered. The battalion pours through the streets, grabbing two teens who tell the troops that 250 to 450 armed Baathists have headed east, the last of them having left as the Marines arrived. The teams collect names of party officials and details on their vehicles and weapons. The biggest find: a book listing the names of all local Baath officials...