Panic RoomTicking for almost 2 hours, it seems a bit long and stretched considering its premise (it could have easily been of around 90 minutes), it needed a better editing to satisfy the viewers in the end but other than that it works for the most part of it. David Fincher doesn't compromise on the execution but seems a little irresponsible on the editing part and as far as David Koepp's screenplay is concerned; its perspective is interesting enough to invest in it, but lacks on proving a point. Jodie Foster is good in her part and is supported well by great cast like Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto and Kristen Stewart. Panic Room is a fine popcorn entertainer that roots for the big bucks but fails to go deep and take risks which then leads into a shallow soulless feature that looks good in a first glimpse but nothing beyond that.

The film is well done and quite tensed. Most of the faults listed in the spoiler reviews are not faults, but highly frustrated viewers that are not very smart. The acting is good. And the tension is high enough the viewer won't notice the perceived goofs. Only the ending is weird and blows the movie. That last scene seems to have been added just before releasing the movie. Which gratuitously draws attention to the story. Yea, it is a heist story. And it's better than the ridiculous Home Alone. But there is no character development. And no goal. Just a two hour filler for some Saturday evening entertainment.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

You can not fault Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, and the cast in this one. They do a great job of trying to put this over. Unfortunately, either the script writers were on strike, or just plain stupid when they put this thing into writing. I mean, these crooks have to be the most stupid crooks ever. Why would you wait until a place has been sold and moved into to decide to break into a safe that has millions of dollars in it? I mean, I would have been there while it was empty to do this. The script does not really give you enough background on why this circumstance came to be other than talking about some estate, but still little sense is made of this.The script even makes fun of it's flaws late in the film when Foster takes a sledge hammer around and starts knocking out closed circuit cameras, and one of the crooks makes their most intelligent words in the film - "Why the h*ll didn't we think of that?"If you buy the hokey premise of the script then you enjoy the suspense it creates. The trouble is there are so many holes that you have to be a fan of Swiss cheese to really do that. Still, I did enjoy seeing the folks in this cast try to make this into a good film. If it were not for their acting, my rating would be a 1. There is so much wrong with the script that all I can recommend is if you put your brain in park, and just watch it for the cast, you will enjoy it. If you try to make any sense out of the actions the plot generates, you will wind up in a rubber room with a straight jacket to keep you restrained. In fact, that seems to happen to the cast in this one.

Mother and daughter move in a big house, learn about secret room and become victims of robbery the first day they moved in. Three guys with totally different motives for robbery are looking for couple of millions hidden inside house. From the start Fincher shows us some pretty nice directing of the movie and how camera goes from scene to scene. After Meg realizes that they are in trouble she picks her daughter up from sleep and manages to get inside panic room. Now movie turns into a big thriller story which has it's high and low notes that sometimes get too dull and just have no sense. Considering that Meg and Sarah are unable to contact anybody only thing left is to wait and after Sarah gets seizure attack movie really speeds up and gets to a different pace which is more exciting than the one before and now there is a lot of violence, action sequences and even some pretty tense moments that really kicked in at right time. Jodie Foster played Meg and she was very good as well as Forest Whitaker that played one of the intruders and his character was a really nice touch to the whole story. 3/4