Rating: 
Summary: Thrilling & Amazing!
Review: After a divorce, Meg Altman (Jodie Foster)and her daughter Sarah(Kristen Stewart) move in to a spacious townhouse. It has everything: an elevator, 4 floors and a pacic room. Now, a panic room is a safe haven in case of intruters. During their first night 3 robbers break in: Burnham (Forest Whitaker),Junior (Jared Leto) and Raoul(Dwight Yoakam). Meg and Sarah make it to the room safely but what the intruters really want is in that room with them. This movie is fantastic. You should really get it from amazon.com because they offer the letterboxed version not fullscreen. I watch it all the time and it still creeps me out. If you don't see this film then you are missing out. See it.
Rating: 
Summary: Better Than I Thought It Would Be
Review: When a person is cornered in a no-win situation, how hard will they fight? That is the question this movie asks. Jodie Foster's character and her daughter (Kristen Stewart) are trapped in their new home's panic room while three thieves (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam) are locked out--and want to get at the millions of dollars stored in the panic room.The characters are interesting. Jodie Foster plays a recently divorced woman trying to get her life together. Forest Whitaker is a McGuyver-type who can whip up a bomb out of household items. Dwight Yoakam plays the creepy homicidal killer. Jared Leto comes across as a cocky, hot-headed jerk who master-minds the whole robbery. Kristen Stewart gives an impressive performance as the teen daughter. I love Jodie Foster's movies. This is definitely not as scary or suspenseful as "Silence of the Lambs," but will still keep you on the edge of your seat.
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding!- Not what I expected.
Review: I gave it four stars, this movie was not what I expecting, I didn't here really anything about this movie. From commercials or anything. I saw the MTV 2002 movie awards, and that's how I found out about this movie.
This movie is about a divorced women, who got
preety much all her money from her husband, who buys this mansion. The mansion has it all, it's got an elevator, huge rooms and bathrooms in each room. Three stories high. And this house has a panic room. A room where you go in, and no one on the outside can get in there at all, unless you can cut throw 3 feet of steel. The women (Jodie Foster)
has a daughter, who has somthing wrong with her,
she can't have her temperature go low at all, or she goes into shock. And one night someone trys to break in there house, because there is money in that panic room. The women wakes up grabs her kid, and trys to hide and move around in the elevator. Until she goes into the panic room. The "break-in" people try and try to get in there... Want to find out more? Watch Panic Room.
I gave this four stars, great movie, I was expecting either a real bad scary movie, or a real bad not at all scary movie. But this movie isn't really that scary, it's thrilling, but not so scary. I thought this was a real great movie. The acting was average of 3.2 stars, Jodie Foster did great!
I would recommend this to anybody who is living, overall I give it a final of 4 stars. Go see it!
Rating: 
Summary: Not what I expected
Review: In my opinion (mean no offense for other reviewers), this movie Is the dramatic version of "Home alone", an excellent actress got caught in home by a bunch of dumb, unlucky and incompetent criminals.
Rating:
Summary: Good directing saves this derivative script
Review: David Fincher does all he can to lift the familiar script with great visuals and two top-notch actors. The visual style and camera movements are to be praised to no end, as are the performances by Jodie Foster and Forest Whitaker. Past that, the movie gets bogged down when the burglars (excluding Whitaker) are on screen. Not only are Yoakam and Leto discordant compared to Whitaker's acting realism, but their characters are right out the formula book. Leto is the braggart that wants to run things when Whitaker is clearly the intelligent one, and Yoakam is the token loose cannon that Leto brings along unannounced. The ending is decent, which is usually tough for movies like this. Having said that, I think Panic Room could become something of a minor classic with two good actors and inventive direction from David Fincher. Fincher reminds me of the young Brian DePalma who always did well with average material. As far as the SuperBit compression, I couldn't tell a difference on my regular television. It may look incredible on HDTV for all I know. I would have rather had audio commentary by Fincher.
Rating:
Summary: Reviewers too harsh. A good film.
Review: A mildly claustrophobic divorcee and her diabetic daughter move into a spacious New York City, West-Side, Brownstone, with hardwood floors and high ceilings. The previous owner Mr Perlstien, a wealthy financier, has died, leaving behind disgruntled relatives and a Panic Room ( a safe haven from attackers). Mother and daughter settle in, to be disturbed shortly afterwards by three men who break into the house. One of them is the grandson of Mr Perlstien who knows that the old man has hidden his loot in a safe in the Panic Rom. Another is a security contractor familiar with the Panic Room. The third is a hired gun, brought along by the grandson without the second man's foreknowledge. The grandson hadn't reckoned on their being anyone at home, because of the time it should have taken for the property to change ownership. The mother and daughter escape into the Panic Room, just in time. And the intruders have to get them out, for they have no way to breach the poured concrete, and three-inch-thick steel. Because this film had gotten such poor reviews I hadn't bothered going to see it at the cinema. But after watching in on DVD, I have to say that I found it to be much better than the reviewers had claimed. The antics of the grandson lent it an air of a more gory 'Home Alone', and the camera work, with the camera swooping around the house's interior made it all look very spacious and forbidding. Although the plot is a touch rough around the edges, the film moves along smoothly enough to gloss over these defects. Then again, when you've got Jodie Foster heading up the cast, the defects shouldn't really be there. Okay ... gripes over with. Go watch it.
Rating:
Summary: Good, not great suspense
Review: I read that Jodie Foster didn't want to do PANIC ROOM, but somehow got caught up in it. The movie does provide much suspense, and although quite ridiculous in some parts, is worthy of a place in any top 20 suspense thriller list. Jodi is excellent in the role of a lady who has purchased a home fitted with a panic room off the main bedroom. I felt they should have waited before introducing the home invasion - it just seemed too far-fetched to have that happen on her first night in her new home. It's a minor issue, but it just seemed to spoil it. It would have been good to build up to it to give the viewer more of a feel for the home.
DVD EVALUATION - Be careful, like many new DVD's, the greedy film companies are bringing out one version, then a few months later another version. A good example is the new "Superbit" version of Panic Room with improved picture quality and more special features. It's annoying, but if you have the original DVD version you probably aren't missing out on too much.
Rating: 
Summary: Good, not great
Review: Panic Room is OK movie, nothing new here, but not that old either. I did admire the camera work, and the angles that were used on some of the shots. But, at the same time I found that I was more interested in the camera work than the actually story, which is pretty much none existant.
Set up, mother and daughter move into huge apartment with 50 rooms and 12 stories, and hundreds of video cameras. Of course, the first night robbers try to break in. Couldn't it have been a week later at least? The rest of the movie is pretty unbelievable. The robbers break in, three of them. Larry, Moe and Curly. One is an idiot, one is psycho and the other is a professor of everything. Long story short, the mother and daughter go into the panic room only to find that that is where the robbers want to go too. Sadly, the mother forgot her daughter's diabetes meds. So, while they are stuck on the 12th floor, the meds are on the 2nd floor. Of course her daughter starts to get low blood sugar. So, instead of getting out of the room and getting out the window while the robbers are on the first floor, they stay there. When I asked my friend, why don't they just get out while the robbers are downstairs she said, "because the door would make a lot of noise and the robbers would know that they are opening the door." Wrong, they opened the door and there wasn't a sound at all. Totally illogical when you know they want to get into the room that your hiding in. The ending, well it was like the rest of the movie, dumb. Panic Room is a good rental when you've seen every other movie in the store. But, really, it's not that great a movie.
Rating:
Summary: Scary stuff!
Review: Fans who were disappointed by the filmed adaptation of the novel Sliver will find much recompense in this taut Ira Levinesque thriller. Jodie Foster (at her most assured and compelling in years) plays a newly divorced mother (to Kristen Stewart) who buys a new Manhattan home based on its spacious rooms, many floors and a nifty bedroom feature: a completely secure, foolproof panic room, designed in case of emergencies like burglaries and the like. Foster dismisses the room as a useless novelty, the product of the corrupted mind of the paranoid millionaire who owned the home before she did. Unfortunately, her sentiments obviously fall on deaf karma, since on the very night of her moving in a trio of robbers (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam) break in to her house, thinking the place still empty. Now, mother and daughter are trapped in a well-equipped but tiny little space with no way of escape, hoping that the gentlemen will just take what they want and leave. However, what they want turns out to be in that very room, and just because it's impossible to enter it doesn't mean the bad guys won't try. Tight as all hell, the film is about as scary as any film you'll ever see, directed with incredible precision by crafty David Fincher (The Game, Fight Club), who just seems to be getting better and better at this kind of film every time he tries it. Gorgeously shot by both Conrad L. Hall and Darius Khondji (who was fired during the shoot for having a level of perfectionism that made the film run way over schedule, which in turn was getting in the way of pregnant Foster's growing belly), the film was written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Death Becomes Her), and is safely acknowledgeable as his best script to date. The lead role was originally to be played by Nicole Kidman, who thanks to an injury she sustained while filming Moulin Rouge was unable to fulfill her commitment to this film, prompting Foster to drop out of her duties as president of the 2002 Cannes Film Festival Jury at last minute's notice and take over the role (Liv Ullmann later took Foster's position at Cannes and Foster made a small presentation during the Cannes Award ceremonies). Kidman's voice makes a tiny cameo as the voice of Foster's ex-husband's new wife.
Rating:
Summary: A Room Without A View
Review: An intense film that keeps you glued to the set. Top notch entertainment that should please everyone who watches it. I loved the performance of Jodie Foster and her androgenous daughter. They both did an excellent job. I also really enjoyed Jared Leto's performance. He played an intense character with alot of passion for crime and I loved the braids. Another standout was the ending, totally gripping and traumatic and everyone ends up getting what they deserve. If you can't do the time don't do the crime.
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