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Summary: Home Alone 4?
Review: Panic Room is one heavy movie. Heavy colors, heavy drapes, heavy facial expressions; heavy rain, darkened corners, unfinished walls. With all that "atmosphere," you'd think we had the beginnings of a frightfully engaging film. After all, this is a movie about a mother (and a darn good actress, Jodie Foster) and daughter (who happens to be an insulin-dependent diabetic) crammed into a small cement and steel room as some big, bad wolves lurk outside ready to jump.But all of this lovely set-up is for naught. Foster's acting is flat, closer to her work in the abysmal Contact. Sure, we get to see her scientifically enhanced cleavage, but that is about the only thing that is revealed about her character. One of the problems is that Foster's character is dimwitted and depressed, not exactly a formula for an engaging heroine. And if Foster is rather dumb, she looks like a genius compared to the bumbling crooks who are trying to steal money from her house. Panic Room is filled with cliches and marginal performances. The story is trite and dumb, and simply not worth your time. Sorry, Jodie. Try again.
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Summary: Middle America Learns of the Panic Room.
Review: I always wondered why there had never been a movie that working class America could look to to understand the Panic Room phenomena sweeping the nation. When i was shopping for mansions with my supermodel wife and my briefcase full of money, the first question i asked the realtor at every house is "Does it have a panic room?". After looking at hundreds of houses and $16 million dollars later (a steal if i may say so myself), i finally found the house with a panic room. And wouldn't you know it, much like the movie, three thieves broke into the house and i was trapped in my panic room. All i kept screaming over the intercom was "Jared Leto get out of my house you B-List Actor!!!!!!!!!!". Needless to say he was not amused.
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Summary: GRIPPING, BUT HOLES IN THE PLOT AT BIG AS THE ROOM ITSELF
Review: Film 101: a suspense thriller yarn (the genre that "Panic Room" whines to belong to) needs to be based around at least a semi-intelligent plot. That's asking for too much here. A trio of the most severely knuckleheaded crooks you have ever set your eyes on (apart from Home Alone series perhaps, where it was all at least tongue-in-cheek) plan to oust a mom+daughter duo from a "safe" room that was created for this very occasion. That intriguing premise turns into poppycock quicker than you can shut a door. Questions arise at almost every other minute. Without divulging too much: * Why couldn't the crooks just come some other time when there was no one in the house?
* Why did they choose to be themselves and let all the ensuing hide-and-seek take place? Impersonation doesn't really take so much brains!
* Why did they just not smash the cameras or make up a cock-and-bull story to get access to the safe?
* How did the bad guys know that blowing up a cylinder wouldn't send the entire house in flames, and only have the desired selective impact?
* Why did the mother not bluff about calling the police with a cell phone when they snapped the phone line? Forget about suspension of disbelief, you've seen teen horror movies with more grey matter. I won't spoil whatever little value there may be in watching the "surprise" ending, but the truth is, highly predictable things happen and get resolved in perfectly imaginable ways -- barring of course the cacophany of the orchestra in the backdrop, which is the only thing that gives you the misconception of watching a thriller. Which this film definitely isn't. Saving graces? Some clever camera work (it is David Flinch after all) and a couple of tense skip-a-beat moments strewn here and there. That doesn't save the entire movie though. Probably an OK rental, nothing you'd want to own.
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Summary: Don't Panic
Review: I couldn't imaguine what could be so exciting about a movie of two people locked in a room. It turned out to be a great edge-of-your-seat thriller. Jodie Foster again demonstrates what a fabulous actress she really is. The film blew my mind away. Jodie Foster was so great in this film. I heard that Nicole Kidman was originally supposed to be the leading role, but she was injured while filming Moulin Rouge so she didn't have enough time to heal and be in Panic Room. I was kinda mad about that but what can you do? It is a great suspense thriller with many twists, superb acting and wonderful camera work. The ending could be better. There is no surprise. It's quite a simple story - mother(Foster) and daughter are home alone in a big(really big, actually!)house - it's the middle of the night and three burglas come calling, after the contents of a safe kept in the 'panic room' of the house. Mother and daughter retreat to the safety - or so they hope - of the specially built room, while the three men try various ways to get them out, and mother and daughter fight to generally survive and get help. The film engages 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 challenges its viewers to pay attention and realize the significance of what they saw.
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Summary: simply God-awful
Review: What a waste of an accomplished actress in Jodie Foster... None of the characters were particularly believable, and all of them were ridiculously predictable. The same could be said for this film; just by-the-numbers, lowest-common-denominator Hollywood pulp. It might also help if the actress who plays Foster's daughter had an actual pulse, too. Can't believe this is the same Fincher who made "Fight Club." What happened, has he had a lobotomy recently?
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Summary: "A must see intense Thriller"!
Review: I saw "Panic Room" over a year ago and I have to say this is a work of art. Here is what I thought of this great movie.
Acting-9/10-The acting was pretty good. Jodie Foster gives off an exceptionally good performance while Kristen Stewart who plays the daughter of Jodie foster also gives off a good performance. A lot of talent was put in to making this movie and it shows.
Thrills- 10/10-I thought the thrills were great. It kept me at the edge of my seat for the most part." Panic Room" keeps you in suspense throughout the entire movie. You grow attached to the characters .Those were honestly some of the best two hours I had watching a movie.
Directing-9/10-Directing was also good. The script and storyline were well done and believable. With such great directing there is no wonder why this movie gets such great reviews.
If you like this movie I would also like to suggest another thriller "silence of the lambs" which I thought was even better.
Anyways,if you haven't seen this intense thriller I recommend you do so.A movie like "Panic Room" comes a long only once in a great while.Don't miss this wonderful movie,buy it and I promise you won't regret it.
I highly suggest inviting a friend or friends over because this movie is best enjoyed with another person.
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Summary: A latter day classic among psychological thrillers
Review: Add this film to a very short list of thrillers made in the last 25 years that come anywhere close to the masters such as Hitchcock. Deftly written and brilliantly photographed, "The Panic Room" still makes me gasp and sit on the edge of my seat even after multiple viewings. The acting is superb as well. Some of the elements are highly nuanced -- especially scenes like the retrieving the cell-phone. I would hope that in 25 more years such scenes will continue to work as well as they seem to right now. I would rank this film with "Wait Until Dark" and "Rear Window" among my favorite thrillers of all time.
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Summary: COME OUT, JODIE, PLEASE COME OUT!
Review: America's sweatheart, Jodie Foster, plays a recently- divorced mother who moves into a huge (the kind you only see in movies) New York City apartment with a "panic room"-- a self- contained, steel-walled room built for protection in the case of home invasion. Shortly after moving into the new place, claustrophobic Jodie and her strangely androgynous-looking 11-year old daughter get the unfortunate experience of testing the room out, when they're invaded by a trio of robbers. For most of the movie, the invaders try to get Jodie to come out (ahem...), because there's supposedly money in the panic room,left there by the apartment's wealthy former owner. Eventually, Jodie does come out (ahem...), only to face more danger when her daughter, on the verge of a diabetic coma, is now trapped in the panic room with two of the robbers. "The Panic Room" is a psychological thriller with Jodie in a role which has become too common in movies lately: the vulnerable, fragile woman who rises to the occasion and gets tough when she or her family is threatened. Jodie is perfectly adequate in the role, but a hundred other actresses could have done just as well. And the movie, while it does have some thrills, isn't exactly the nail-biter that it was hyped to be-- leaving the audience's mind to wander and think about unimportant details...for example, why is Jodie's ex-husband in the movie so blatantly unattractive? Personally I'd like to have seen the tragically underused Ms. Foster in a character that better accentuates her charms: her brains, her matter-of-fact attractiveness, and most of all, her enigmatic persona. Will the real Jodie Foster please, ahem, come out?
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Summary: An intense, suspensful thriller
Review: The Egyptian pharaohs had it right all along; the only way to make your sanctuary, your abode of eternal rest, your panic room truly impregnable and safe is to kill the guys who build it as soon as the job is done. Of course, you can't go around killing construction and security people willy-nilly, and that leads to the kind of situation we find in this movie. When the newly-divorced and emotionally scarred Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) manage to barricade themselves inside their new home's super-nifty panic room, they think they are safe from the three guys who have broken into the house. They are wrong. The paranoid, rich, recently deceased guy who owned the home before the Altmens had millions of dollars hidden inside a safe in that very panic room; these guys know it, and one of them helped build the darn panic room and safe himself. So begins a standoff that never flags in intensity or leaves the viewer more than a few precious seconds in which to come up for air. Meg, despite her claustrophobic tendencies, proves herself to be quite the clever survivor, engaging the bad guys in a mental chess game of ingenuity, desperation, and the type of bravery that can only come from a parent's instinctual necessity to protect his/her child. It's strange to think that Nicole Kidman was cast to play the role of Meg, bowing out a week or so into the project as a result of some type of injury. As with any Jodie Foster role, I can't imagine anyone else playing this main character. I love Nicole Kidman to death, but I think Jodie was much better suited for the part of Meg. Of course, Jodie can't do everything herself; the movie's overall effectiveness also hinges on the performance of the three bad guys. Jared Leto is quite good in a weasel sort of way, but Dwight Yoakam was quite unconvincing as the cold and hard "Raoul." Luckily, Forest Whitaker more than takes up the slack to give a performance worthy of a Jodie Foster film. He is the proverbial criminal with a conscience, and he plays the role extremely well, thereby churning up some additional emotions and feelings in the audience, creating more conflict in one's hopes of final resolution, and ensuring that the audience remains mesmerized in front of the screen until the credits roll. The DVD heralds itself as a Superbit DVD, which means it optimizes sound and video at a much more impressive level than normal DVDs. I suppose this only adds to the effectiveness of the unusual camera angles and long camera pans moving from one story of the building to the others in long continuous shots. I'm just a regular movie watcher, though, so I can't tell much difference in Superbit vs. regular DVDs. I do know, albeit rather vaguely, that the Superbit technology works by using extra layers of the DVD to encode more technological whatsits and wossnames, extra layers that are often used for such things as extra features. This helps explain why Panic Room comes with virtually no special features at all, only a trailer for the movie and short filmographies of a few of the actors and filmmakers. Personally, I'd rather have a commentary and miscellaneous goodies. Ultimately, though, this movie is so good that it's really all you need to make you happy. Panic Room is a suspenseful thriller, but it really doesn't make any effort to scare the audience, making this a movie that all sorts of fans can marvel at and enjoy.
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Summary: Still a good movie.
Review: The movie, when first seen, is great. The second time is still good. The atmosphere is the best thing. There is also some really great acting. Mostly from that one black dude who is nice, but still a bad guy. Basically these 2 people hide in a panic room, when 3 guys come into their house. You find out why they are there, and eventually come to like the black guy as an ally. Rawul is pretty cool too. I don't want to tell you the whole plot, just that it is enough to make the movie have a point. The sound is excellent. The best thing about it is DTS. DTS was a great addition, and it makes this movie an enjoyable renter. Watch it at night. Its not that much of a thriller but it does do a good job of entertainment.
Overall--->5 Stars
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