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Summary: David Fincher goes Mainstream
Review: David Fincher makes his long awaited return to the directors chair, after his 1999 hit FIGHT CLUB. PANIC ROOM is without a doubt one of the best suspense films to come out in quite some time. The film has the usual great directing from David Fincher. His directing in this film can be compared quite a bit to FIGHT CLUB. He uses every camera angle to his advantage, bringing more to the film. The acting is well above par. Jodie Foster (The Silence Of The Lambs, Contact) finally brings her Academy Award winning acting to play. Jared Leto (American Psycho, Fight Club) is a wonderful actor. I love him. Forest Whitaker gives a pretty good performance. But in my opinion Dwight Yoakam is the most surprising. I really expected him to foul up the film, but he proves that he can bring a good performance to the film. I mean he is amazing! He also didn't quite look like himself (he wears a skimask most of the film). If you love the directing work of David Fincher, great acting, and a simple plot turned into something amazing, then I'd definitely wouldn't miss this film! It's easily one of the year's ten best films!
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Summary: Confined film but exciting...
Review: The majority of the film happened in less than 24 hours & confined in the protagonist's new house. However, the director's brilliance, the actors' exemplary performances & the commendable cinematography gripped the viewer's attention & excitement. Koepp/Fincher & Foster/Whitaker was a good combination.
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Summary: Don't Panic - Get Clever
Review: There are very few films where your mind is racing to work out what's going to happen next. Panic Room does this cleverly. The film enganges the viewer and makes them think about what they've just seen. It doesn't just come right out and explain everything to the viewer. The film challanges its viewers to pay attention and realize the significance of what they saw. An example is the shot of the daughter's Refrigerator in her room. If you're clever and paying attention you immediately understand it's significance. It may become clear when Jodie warns her daughter not to get too excited. Or later notice the daughter's unusual "watch". More clues when her daughter's watch has gone off. Ok, so the viewer's suspension of disbelief kinda dips when Jodie reaches in the vent for the telephone wire and it's marked right there inside the vent. Would a phone line really be marked there? And all that work Jodie does to get back to the refrigerator and she gets the wrong item but the movie makes it out to be the correct one. But the rest of the movie is so good it doesn't detract from the film's enjoyment even if it is noticed. The shot of Jodie crying in the tub and gulping down a huge glass of wine. The shot of the key in the front door going in and then out. No explainations or dialogue. Just shots of things that actually mean something significant to the story telling. The cinematography is likewise clever. The shot of the camera going through the kitchen table, the floor, the vents are just ways the film's technology frees itself from the fixed camera (much as the director of the Matrix proclaimed it would). It's just another enjoyable element in the film and more importantly, it still serves as a purpose to the story telling (unlike the Matrix, whose cinematography was maintly about oohs and ahhs). All in all Panic Room's a blast. It's clever, and keeps you on your toes right up to the end.
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Summary: Panic Room: Ultimate Thriller
Review: Any implausibility in the plot or scenerio of this film is made up for by the most accurate portrayal of type-1 diabetes ever captured on film. Fincher handles the most important scenes with great sensivity and, of course, they are beautifully and accurately written by Koepp. The rest of the movie, don't get me wrong, is also quite good --I would say one of the better movies that has been seen this year.
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Summary: OH MY GOD BUY IT
Review: Panic Room is one of the year's most entertaining films from one of cinema's most reliable directors this movie about newly divorced mom and her daughter, trap themselves in a Panic Room after three burglas break into their residence. The robbers want to get inside the room but the two ladies aren't hip to the deal. Thrills, suspense and mucho darkness ensues I really didn't think that a movie set up entirely in one house would be able to maintain my interest throughout. But it did. The film works on many levels, with fine performances, an intelligent script, and adroit directing. I particularly liked the strength and resourcefulness of the mother and daughter characters who, in a less capable production, might have been written and played merely as victims. This is much more interesting and engaging when the would be victims are capable of resiting(not with unrealistic martial arts skills)but with thoughtful attempts to thwart the bad guys who are not just "central casting" bad guys, but interesting characters themselves.
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Summary: One of the best movies ever
Review: Panic Room is one of the concentrated gems that - in my point of view - help Hollywood get back to real art again.
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Summary: Cool movie!!! Very cool movie!!!
Review: My friend and I went to see it the day it came out. We saw it two more times with other friends that wanted them to see how cool it was too. I thought it was going to be scary, but it was more of a "on the edge of your seat" movie. I liked it; it had great actors and a wonderful story line.
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Summary: Best movie 2002 (so far)
Review: Panic Room is the best film of 2002 so far. It is the best David Fincher film yet, and one of Jodie Foster's best performances. It is intense, intelligent, exciting and downright scary. Jodie's character is subjected to a home invasion from which she must protect herself and her daughter(Kristen Stewart who absolutely steals the show). That is as much of the plot that I will detail. Know this. Panic Room is not a brainless shott'em up action flick, but rather a thriller for the thinking man. It is a cat and mouse game with realistic characters and exceptional dialogue. The camera movements, angels, and sweeps are perfect. Even the opening credits are brilliant.
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: The actors and actresses were teriffic in this thriller - especially an unrecognizable Country Singer named Dwight Yoakim. I've always admired Ms. Foster, and once again she does not disappoint in this fast-moving film.
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Summary: Suspense
Review: Panic Room is exactly what the title says it is. Jodie Foster plays a recently divorced woman whose husband left her for another woman. The movie opens with her and her daughter looking at a home. She immediately notices that the master bedroom is smaller than it should be. The salesman shows her the "Panic Room." She obviously buys the home and we see them moving in. She and her daughter are clearly still very distraught over the divorce. As one of life's ironic rewards for her new home purchase, she gets three burglas on her first night in the new house. From the moment we see the burglas coming into the home is one of the most suspenseful movies that I've seen in a long time. Jodie Foster again shows the definition of an actress. Forest Whitaker, what else can be said about him, he's one of the best. This is an excellent movie that I would recommend to anybody who's interested in a large amount of suspense and being tied up emotionally in a movie.
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