The setup and beginning are quite interesting as not much is being revealed. Although the 6 month flashback right after a decent opening is the first downer in a long series in this flick.The characters are unbelievable naive or overly arrogant and stupid. The only believable guy is the bank robber Esther.The home security system and company are a joke. A multi-million dollar home (more a castle) with probably a few dozen rooms and the most expensive smart home rigging installed and they can't do better than this? I expected some really good applications of what such a setting could offer to hide, set traps, escape, counter-attack or do anything to play mind tricks in the gangsters - but all they could do was hacking into the stereo system (well...don't bother) and make some noise for a moment. In the end the security company does very little to save the protagonists, everything that made a difference was done without the aid of the mike guy, who himself was pretty lost all the time.The road block and the time it took the police to reach a crime scene are so constructed - no one would build such a villa in a remote backwater place. Someone who could buy such a house and stuff would also assign at least one security guard to the building - who would have died first, but OK.All in all the story and characters are plain and lifeless, everything feels very constructed and there is never any real suspense building up.Not even worth watching on a rainy Sunday evening with nothing to do.

I am going to keep this quite short: avoid this movie if you can. There is no character development of any sort. The characters are stupid. For example, they apparently don't know that a car can drive through a closed garage door. Also, if you threaten someone loudly enough, they may figure out how to open a safe they don't know the combination to. You get the general idea, I am sure. And the action is even more stupid. Everybody seems to be walking around at random, seemingly explicitly to avoid running into each other. What a waste of one and a half hours. And at the end, we still don't know several things. What is the relationship between the home's owner and the home invaders? What was inside the safe that lead to this whole stupid movie?

This is the most incredibly badly acted, slow moving, poorly scripted, abysmally directed drive I have ever had the misfortune to watch.It would not even be good enough to rate as a B movie it is that bad.I find it hard to understand why anyone would rate this higher than 1 and this is happening more and more often that reviewers are giving completely false reviews.I cannot find one redeeming quality in this film, there not even as much as 10 seconds of even mediocre acting in the whole film. The story line is fairly standard and may have been worth watching if the actors had any ability at all. Please, I implore you, do not waste your life.

Wow! What a pure waste of time watching this film. I mean from start to finish this was by far one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot. So the movies is about these people who Natasha Henstridge's husband have stolen from, and they arrive at her home to exact what is in a safe behind a wall in the house. The story never tells you anything of the who what when where or how or even the contents of the safe. Its just a home invasion of very upscale home in which they now terrorize a mother and her son. The mother calls their home security service and from there the movies just goes completely down hill. Personally I think this was a major slap in the face to 911 emergency and law enforcement, and nothing but a marketing strategy to get more middle to upper class homeowners to invest in security systems. But after watching this simply awful movie, all I wanna do is go out and get a 9mm and two Doberman. If wanna watch good home invasion movie, which most of you have probably already watched, nothing will beat Panic Room.