Corrected entry: After the first three shots that the sniper fires (robot, ear, guy with the bat), he threatens several times to shoot the wife, the girlfriend, the cop, etc. He repeatedly 'cocks' the rifle (four times) without firing a shot. Cocking the rifle chambers a round, which doesn't go anywhere until fired.
Tailkinker
14th Dec 2004
Phone Booth (2002)
8th Jan 2004
Phone Booth (2002)
Corrected entry: In the end of the movie, the sniper is seen walking away with a gun case. Just about any police officer knows what a gun case looks like and the sniper would have immediately been stopped and checked.
Correction: Firstly, the police have their suspect, identified by Stu, and he's dead - they're not looking for anyone else. Secondly, the caller has been established as both intelligent and highly methodical - he would undoubtedly have made certain that he had appropriate documentation to reassure the police that he holds the rifle legitimately before he took any risks that might bring him into possible contact with the police. Even if the police did stop him and check him, it would just be routine (after all, as far as they're concerned, they've got their man) and they'd find nothing incriminating to hold him on.
2nd Apr 2004
Phone Booth (2002)
Corrected entry: At the end, the Caller walks off holding a large duffel case which ostensibly holds the rifle he was using. But when the officers break into his apartment, they find the dead pizza guy - and the rifle still on its stand. The Caller couldn't have possibly gotten back into his apartment and dismantled the rifle with all the cops there, and there's no way he had the time - after realizing he'd been had - to kill the pizza guy, disassemble his rifle, assemble a new one and set it up, aim it perfectly, then get out of there. So what's he carrying at the end?
Correction: The Caller had to anticipate that he might be discovered, so he had the decoy rifle - the one he left behind - already assembled, on the stand and aimed in roughly the right direction. He killed the pizza guy and left the apartment, presumably running up the stairs away from the police, with his actual rifle hidden as best he could under his coat. Once out of sight, he would have time to disassemble his own rifle and stow it in the case.
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Correction: He's using the sound for psychological effect. Note that the sniper has two rifles present - the one that he leaves behind for the police to discover, and the one that he's carrying in the case at the very end. His main rifle is aimed and ready - the other is most likely the one that he's using for the cocking noise - he can cock that one as many times as he likes.
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