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Summary: The best film of 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 shoot '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, angles, and sweeps are perfect. Even the opening credits are brilliant. I do not think that Fincher will get a Best Director nomination, nor do I think that the two actresses will be recognized, but they all should be. I cannot say enough about this film. Watch it twice.
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Summary: The TRUTH about Panic Room
Review: I just read the several reviews posted before this one and felt obligated to give viewers the truth. I wonder if these people saw the same movie I did? I saw it in the theatre & was forced to watch it again on dvd. I love David Fincher movies & I adore Jodie Foster, yet this movie is so full of plot holes that it makes no sense what-so-ever. It's slick visuals and stylistic camera work doesn't cover up the fact that there is no plot. Anyone with half-a-brain can see that the criminals in this film have no reason to have waited until someone occupied the apartment before trying to rob the safe in the panic room.
The best thing about this film is the opening credits. In the theatre they were stunning and eerie and gave this viewer a vertigo type panic. On DVD, the credits lack the same effect because of the size. And beware anyone ready to shell out over $20 for this dvd. Although credit is due for giving it the "superbit" treatment, the packaging is cheap & shoddy. It is neither a keep case or a snap case, it's a cardboard picture folded in half with glue to hold in the plastic dvd tray. This concoction is then inserted into a cheaper "slimline" cardboard case. There are no special features or extras added for enjoyment. You get cheap, shoddy packaging, no special features, and a lame story detailed in a "pretty" movie. If you wanna be scared into a panic, try Se7en or The Silence Of The Lambs.
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Summary: It kept me saying "Oh my!"
Review: My friend and I went to see it the day it came out. We saw it two more times with other friends that we 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 woderful story line.
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Summary: Movie was good but DVD disc lacking in features
Review: I enjoyed watching the movie (despite the weak ending), but I was sorely disappointed in the lack of features on the DVD disc. ... the only "extras" on the disc was a filmography. ...
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Summary: David Fincher's strongest film
Review: Thankfully in Panic Room David Fincher has abandoned doing a bad rip-off of Tarantino & instead does a decent take on Alfred Hitchcock. Even the opening credits where the titles are superimposed on various New York City buildings bring to mind the credits sequence of North By Northwest. This is straight ahead storytelling, without any bad sermons and Fincher has made a better film for it.The plot follows a woman and her daughter as they move into an elaborate New York Townhouse/Brownstone combination (so the realtor tells us in the beginning) previously owned by a wealthy, paranoid recluse. This old man was so fearful of burglars that he had built a small panic room into his bedroom for security. Three burglars break into the house and drive the mother and daughter into the panic room where they then engage in a battle of wits against each other. David Fincher has yet to make a movie which did not require a bit more of a suspension of disbelief than most other movies in a similar genre. Panic Room is no exception. I would immediately compare this film to Rear Window and Wait Until Dark, but inferior to those masterwaorks. There are ways in which the villains torment the heroes which seemed a stretch, as well as the rather hokey inclusion of some disabilities for the heroes. The mother, it is implied early on, is claustrophobic. However this is only mentioned early on in the film and never brought up again. A bit later it turns out that the daughter is diabetic. A plot contrivance to make it necessary for the mother to try to sneak out and get the daughter's medicine. So try to push past that stuff, enjoy the elaborate camera angles, turn off your brain and be glad that this isn't a David Fincher movie where you also aren't getting a meandering sermon.
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Summary: Panic Room DVD release : review
Review: this is one stripped-down DVD: no director's commentary, no special features of note. no "making of", no sfx reel, no deleted scenes. Basically, you get ... the movie. Ok, you get one of the trailers. Disappointing after the lavish "Fight Club" double DVD.
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Summary: Great Movie, Pointless DVD
Review: I have been a fan of DVDs since they came out. Almost every DVD you buy has some sort of special feature, directors commentary, or something. This Panic Room "SuperBit" DVD has nothing! I Loved the movie and have been looking forward to the DVD release for months. I just dropped almost [$$$] on it and i know that in a couple months they are probably going to release another DVD of panic room that is the SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION. Just another way for them to make more and more money. My advise, dont waste your money on this, wait till a better version comes out. But make sure you see the movie at some point!
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Summary: One of the best films of the last years - for me, at least
Review: This is a kind of a film like "Twin Peaks" or "Mulholland Drive", I mean not a film you would watch a way - "what will happen", but rather a way - "this is THE scene" (or is not). Drinking 75% Absinth will always be something different from having a couple of 40% Stoly-on-rocks, or a dozen-a-beer. 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: Good movie -- lame packaging
Review: This was the first DVD that I didn't buy in a store because it's not in a standard plastic "keep case". It's in a cheap cardboard package, which I find unnecessarily inconsistent and rather annoying.
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Summary: David Fincher hasn't made a bad movie yet
Review: Have you guys seen the movie SE7EN? Have you had the chance to watch THE GAME? Have you lived inside the genius that was FIGHT CLUB? Well, I have and seeing as all three of these parties were thrown by the same man named David Fincher.
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 doting daughter, trap themselves in a panic room after three burglars 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 resisting (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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