Production Year: 2001 - Thriller - Director: David Fincher - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jodie Foster, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Holt McCallany, Ann Magnuson, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan, Kristen Stewart, Andrew Kevin Walker more
As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah... more
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ultimately transcends the thinness of its premise. David Koepp's screenplay is basicallyWait Until Darkon steroids, so director David Fincher (Seven,The Game) compen...
ultimately transcends the thinness of its premise. David Koepp's screenplay is basicallyWait Until Darkon steroids, so director David Fincher (Seven,The Game) compen...
Panic Room [2002]
An effective exercise in "confined cinema",Panic Roomis a finely crafted thriller that ... more
ultimately transcends the thinness of its premise. David Koepp's screenplay is basicallyWait Until Darkon steroids, so director David Fincher (Seven,The Game) compensates with elaborate CGI-assisted camera moves, jazzing up his visuals.A relocated New York divorcée (Jodie Foster) and her diabetic 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 customised, 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) relying on herSilence of the Lambsresourcefulness. It's not as viscerally satisfying as Fincher's previous thrillers, butPanic Roomdefinitely holds the viewer's attention.--Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
One of the worst films I have seen in my entire life. The only film I have seen at the cinema that I have genuinely considered walking out of. I expected a realistic, exciting film full of tension and suspense. What I got was a story line that verged on the ridiculous, with incredibly strange characters and villians that absolutely would not die no matter how many times they were attacked. An hour and a half of my life that I could've used better.
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Advantages: Scary Disadvantages: Lots of action on a small set
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Commentary. 'Shooting of Panic Room'. Visual effects feature. making of. Photo gallery. 4 extra scenes. Short film 'Habitrail'. Theatrical trailer. 'Creating The Previz'. On sound design. Safe Cracking School. Make up effects feature. Product Details (taken from :-
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Studio: Sony Pictures DVD Release Date: March 30, 2004 Run Time: 112 minutes Genre: Thriller
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Advantages: Great film boosted by a superb set of extras Disadvantages: You will need a multi-region dvd player to run it
...backed up by an exhaustive set of extra material. For fans of Fincher or film-making in general, it’s a must.
The best place to buy the PanicRoomSpecialEdition is from www.playusa.com. It costs £17.99 and delivery is free. A bargain!...
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Advantages: An amazing thriller, comedy elements too Disadvantages: Slightly predictable in places
...a new plan to get into the panicroom as I was desperate to see what Meg and Sarah would decide to do to prevent them...also the two's plans for trying to get help are intriguing, and made me grit my teeth praying they would work!
The only downside to this film in my eyes is that there are many scenes that are fairly predictable, including many of the so called twists, but to discuss them would mean giving away parts of the plot so I'll refrain! On the other hand there are scenes that are slightly less expected, and even those that you can guess will happen still develop the feeling of tension that pervades this film.
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GENRE: Thriller, Drama, Crime
UK CERT: 15 (Bad language, some disturbing scenes)
LENGTH: 112 mins.
DVD PRICE: First edition- £15.98 on Amazon.co.uk (used and new from £3.50). Specialedition £14...
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Special Features: Commentary By Director David Fincher, Commentary By Jodie Foster And Forest Whitaker And Dwight Yoakam, 20 Visual Effects Featurettes, Making Of Shooting Of Panic Room, 5 Multi Angle Featurettes, 4 Scene Deconstructions, Photo Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Creating The Previz Previz Sessions With David Fincher Featurette, On Sound Design Featurette, Safe Cracking School, Make Up Effects Featurette, 2 Branching Featurettes, 3 Easter Eggs
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English DTS English
DVD Description
As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours through an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The former abode of a wealthy eccentric, this townhouse contains an unusual extra feature, a supposedly impenetrable "panic room" equipped with surveillance monitors, a separate phone line, and other survival aids, where residents can hide in case of emergency. When three men--Burnham (Forest Whitaker, BLOODSPORT), Junior (Jared Leto, FIGHT CLUB), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam, CRANK)--break into their new home, Meg and Sarah end up using the panic room much sooner than they could have possibly imagined. And, unfortunately for them, these intruders are not simple burglars; they possess knowledge that makes the situation much more perilous. Hitchcockian in its confined setting and carefully doled-out suspense, Fincher's PANIC ROOM is more straightforward than his infamous FIGHT CLUB, though no less engaging. Foster (who replaced Nicole Kidman after she injured herself on the set of MOULIN ROUGE) gives her best performance since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The thieves are equally compelling--Whitaker shines as a likeable, sad-eyed security expert; Leto provides comic relief as a talkative brat; and Yoakam is perfectly loathsome as an armed-to-the-teeth psycho. Although the film features some of Fincher's trademark hi-tech effects, its true bells and whistles are the excellent cast, the stunning photography, the moody score, and the simple yet thrilling story.
Professional reviews
Review: "...PANIC ROOM rigorously and ingeniously maps narrative onto space....It's the internal rhythms of each shot, the counterpoint of images and sound, and the jolt of each edit that are inexhaustibly pleasurable..." (Film Comment, p.74-5, 01/05/2002)
"...Fincher again demonstrates undeniable visual flair. There are swooping, insinuating camera moves, disconcerting rolls and tumbles, and all manner of bravura displays..." (Los Angeles Times, p.C1, 29/03/2002)
"...Mr. Fincher has mastered the traditional syntax of cinematic suspense: the shifting points of view, startling cuts and slow camera movements that work subliminally to fill us with dread and anxiety..." (New York Times, p.E1, 29/03/2002)
"...PANIC ROOM is Fincher's high-style testament to the cool things movies can do to make us jump out of our seats in the dark....Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling..." (Rolling Stone, p.137-8, 11/04/2002)
"...PANIC ROOM sticks with us. Fincher works on a deeper level than just scares. He shows us the demons prowling around in our subconscious, where we really live..." (Rolling Stone, p.80, 09/05/2002)
"...Eyeball it as a sustained exercise in style and suspense and it delivers. Big time....Fincher succeeds by literally ignoring the boundaries..." (Total Film, p.98-9, 01/06/2002)
"...Efficiently directed, fabulously shot....Photographed in the darkest visible tones by two of the industries greatest, ROOM and its tilting/panning camera have a blast zipping through and around a dozen large rooms..." (USA Today, p.4E, 29/03/2002)
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