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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 21669
Released: March 30, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A recently divorced woman and her daughter are threatened by thieves who want valuables hidden in their panic room.
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
Description of Panic Room (3-Disc Special Edition):
An effective exercise in "confined cinema," Panic Room is a finely crafted thriller that ultimately transcends the thinness of its premise. David Koepp's screenplay is basically Wait Until Dark on steroids, so director David Fincher (Seven, The Game) compensates with elaborate CGI-assisted camera moves, jazzing up his visuals while a relocated New York divorcée (Jodie Foster) and her daughter (Kristen Stewart) fight for their lives against a trio of tenacious burglars (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam) in their new Manhattan townhouse. They're safe in a customized, impenetrable "panic room," but the burglars want what's in the room's safe, so mother and daughter (and Koepp and Fincher) must find clever ways to turn the tables and persevere. Suspense and intelligence are admirably maintained, with Foster (who replaced the then-injured Nicole Kidman) riffing on her Silence of the Lambs resourcefulness. It's not as viscerally satisfying as Fincher's previous thrillers, but Panic Room definitely holds your attention. --Jeff Shannon
Panic Room (3-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Familiar but Diverting 
2009-11-16 - Good version of an ancient formula; worth seeing despite weaknesses. I liked the eponymous panic room, a contemporary variant on the impregnable safe place whose effectiveness depends on the human element. I never mind flaws from the standpoint of the logic of reality, those of dramatic logic are more bothersome and there are some damaging ones here. In fact, one such dramatic flaw pretty well eroded my involvement with a segment of the film. One can't reference the film in the interests of fairness to potential new viewers of the DVD. However, what bothers me will probably not affect others so I discount it in judging the film for their benefit. Adding the pluses and minuses, I believe most people will find it suspenseful entertainment with some good, edge of the seat moments. Not of the first rank, it benefits from the flawed, but, overall, effective performances by Jody Foster, the star, and Kristen Stewart, who plays her diabetic daughter. Hopefully, the excellent actor, Forest Whitaker, was well paid for doing what could be done, with the politically correct role of the African-American criminal.
Lock Yourself Up With This Movie And Enjoy
2009-11-12 - This one's for you,
discriminating movie fan.
Exciting, suspenseful,
and well-acted.
The plot is rather simple,
but it is all that is needed
to set up the situation of
a stand-off in a single setting.
Three men, for various reasons
of their own, break into a
luxurious New York City
brownstone that they expected to
be unoccupied, but a recently
divorced woman and her daughter
had just moved in.
The woman and her daughter attempt
to escape harm by shutting themselves
into a safe ("panic") room built for
just such a situation.
There's big problem.
What the intruders came for is
in that room.
The other problem is that Mom
is claustrophobic and daughter
is diabetic.
Jodie Foster is the mom and does
a very nice job of acting the part.
There are many tense moments
and exciting sequences,
more-so, and perhaps mainly due
to the camera operator.
I thought I had accidentally acquired
a heretofore unknown Dario Argento
film.
The roving camera and the ultra
closeups are fantastic.
View this film for that alone
if the plot doesn't interest you.
I wanted to watch this film again
as soon as I had finished watching
it for the first time.
A sure sign of a winner.
Definitely worth watching once.
note bene:
There is a some explicit violence
and gore such as gun shot wounds
and beatings.
Love this movie 
2009-08-31 - There are 5 reasons to watch this movie:
1.Jodie Foster
2.Forest Whitaker
3.Kristen Stewart
4.Dwight Yokham
5.Jared Leto
enough said! 2 of them are Oscar winners, the others were just starting with their long careers.
"Panic Room"SuperBit First Edition 
2009-08-28 - I saw this movie a long while back,and thought it was,still is,a great suspense thriller.I only wonder what the film might have been like had they finished the first original version with Nicole Kidman.They were well into filming when Kidman hurt her leg during a stunt/scene that went wrong,that is why the film ended up costing so much to make,they had to re-start from the very beginnnig again,now that Nicole Kidman,while she was recovering from her on set injury,was replaced by Jodie Foster.Both actresses have a differant look,and a differant acting style,to their performances,so it would be very interesting to see all the footage from the first version with Nicole Kidman,and compare it with the second,re-done,re-filmed,final release version with Jodie Foster,I hope they release the very rare first version,which,according to sources,was well over half-way completed,as a matter of fact, just about all of the first version starring Nicole Kidman had actually been completed when she was injured in that very unfortunate on-the-set accident,which forced the film makers to start from scratch.Maybe for a future Blu-Ray release of the movie we will finally get to see this rare shelved footage version,I sincerely hope so!
A good movie for a movie night
2009-08-23 - This is a pretty good movie. The idea was a good one, and I think it was based on another movie or a book, or something? I don't really remember.
But I think it was a good movie. It wasn't a great one because of the ending (not an incredible ending) and it was a bit unbelievable at times, but I've always loved Jodie Foster's acting.
I gave it three stars just because of how unbelievable it was in certain parts, but it wasn't a bad movie. You should give it a watch, rent it, but not buy. You could possibly be disappointed.
