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| Panic Room |
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  (8/10)
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Runtime: 115 |
| Public Rating: 7.89 (18 votes) |
Director: David Fincher |
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| Genre: Suspense/Thriller |
Year: 2002 |
| Writer(s): David Koepp |
| Reviewed by: Nate Anderson |
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"I spent the last twelve years building rooms like that specifically to keep out people like us."
Panic Room, on it's surface, appears to be another routine thriller from Hollywood with a good gimmick. However, as you get deeper into the story you begin to realize there's a lot more to this tale then it first appears.
The film begins with Meg and Sarah Altman (Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart) moving into their newly aquired Brownstone House in the Upper West Side of New York City. The home has an interesting feature, a panic room. The room is designed to seal off it's occupants from the rest of the house in the event of intruders. It features a heavy steel door and thick concrete walls and floor. It has eight security camera monitors and a seperate, buried phone line. It also has cases of supplies for every possible problem that they could encounter. Meg doesn't like it. (When asked by the realtor why, she resonds, "Did you ever read any Poe?" The realtor resonds with, "No, but I loved her last album." *sigh*, a sign of the times I suppose.).
Soon enough, as soon as Meg and Sarah are in bed and fast asleep, our three intruders, Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakum) arrive at the house. They, however, were not expecting anybody to be at home. Burnham is about to call the whole thing off when Junior and Raoul convince him that those two can handle the two girls while Burnham cracks the safe they need to get into that's, as rumor has it, is holding three million dollars. Of course, the safe is in the floor of the Panic Room. However, Burnham's day job is that he designs and builds Panic Rooms, like the one Meg and Sarah are in.
Meg wakes up and realizes there are intruders in the house. She grabs her daughter, avoids the criminals and high tails it for the Panic Room. The criminals are pissed that she made it into there, because that means they can't get in.
So begins a battle of wits that makes up the rest of the movie, mainly the criminals trying to get Meg and Sarah to come out, and Meg trumping thier attempts while trying in vain to signal for help, especially since she forgot to get the phone in the Panic room hooked up.
There are a few moments that'll have you going, "Now wait a minute...", but overall the film is pretty well grounded in reality.
I recommend the film to anyone looking for a good, pretty smart thriller.
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