Panic Room2002
Panic Room (2002)
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Critic Consensus: Elevated by Fincher's directorial talent and Foster's performance, Panic Room is a well-crafted, above-average thriller.
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Cast
as Meg Altman
as Sarah Altman
as Burnham
as Raoul
as Junior
as Stephen Altman
as Lydia Lynch
as Evan Kurlander
as Sleepy Neighbor
as Keeney
as Morales
as SWAT Cop
as SWAT Cop
as SWAT Cop
as SWAT Cop
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Critic Reviews for Panic Room
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A thinking-man's women-in-jeopardy picture, Panic Room does about as much as humanly possible with its deliberately restricted one-setting premise.
Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty metaphor or grandiloquent technical display, Fincher is also surprisingly at home with hokum.
Fincher mounts some clever, tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to be matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door.
There's just no denying Fincher's gifts. Give the guy a camera or two or three, millions upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art technologies, and there's no stopping him.
... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time.
Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling.
Audience Reviews for Panic Room
A suspense thriller that dazzles visually but begs one to leave common sense trapped in a steel plated room where no sense can get at it. It's got its moments of tension though.
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Good suspense
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The premise for this film is very simple, which could have made it very one note if not for the direction of David Fincher. Two people staked out in a room, against common criminals out to get their hands on millions, doesn't sound appealing when you realize that most of the action takes place in a small room. Foster and Stewart are exceptional as a mother and daughter team, fighting against Whiter, Yoakam, and Leto's burglars. Each side is very intelligent, Whitaker especially, as he plays an employee of the company that makes the panic rooms. In contrast Foster is a worrisome mother with know-how and a true fighting spirit. Fincher gives some really great long takes and tracking shots of the interior of the house, making it a character rather than a set piece. It's a straight edged thriller all the way through, though some moments, where the action is slowed and we're not sure whether they'll all make it, were heart thumping good.
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Panic Room Quotes
| Sarah Altman: | What are we doing? |
| Meg Altman: | I have no idea. |
| Junior: | I can't go to jail man. I'm not built for that shit! |
| Meg Altman: | What's that? |
| Sarah Altman: | S.O.S |
| Meg Altman: | Where'd you learn that? |
| Sarah Altman: | Titanic. |
| Sarah Altman: | Get outta my house. |