Panic Room (Wide Screen)

Panic Room (Wide Screen)

Production Year: 2001 - Thriller - Director: David Fincher - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over 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) compensates with elaborate
CGI-assisted camera moves, jazzing up his
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Foster) and her diabetic daughter (Kristen
Stewart) fight for their lives against a trio of
tenacious burglars (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker,
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Home Alone? Dont Panic!
Review of Panic Room (Wide Screen) by Emma1973

Advantages: Whiled away a couple of hours on an evening
Disadvantages: Unconvincing characters, farcical

...his safety he installed a panic room. This is a room lined completely with 3 inches of steel and concrete, the basic premise is that you lock yourself in should you hear burglars in the house. Inside is a bank of cameras and a phone to the outside world. OF course its also packed with medical supplies. Why medical supplies and no food or sustenance is beyond me! And as bad luck would have it, on their very first night 3 burglars get into the house ...
...safe breaker and manufacturer of panic rooms, a gentle sort who worries more about hurting people than getting the stash! Jared Leto plays Junior, a suave sophisticated sort who knows exactly what they are looking for but the smart suit isn’t doing any of the work! He knows exactly what they are looking for as he was the nurse looking after the old man during his last days. Believe me, he doesn’t look anything like a nurse! Junior hasn’t been entirely ... Read review

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01.01.2004
Panic Room R1 3-Disc Special Edition
Review of Panic Room (Wide Screen) by Crib79

Advantages: Great film boosted by a superb set of extras
Disadvantages: You will need a multi-region dvd player to run it

...Story: Trapped inside an impenetrable panic room, newly divorced Meg Altman and daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat and mouse with three intruders. All Meg wants is her daughters safety. All the intruders want is what has been secretly stashed in the panic room... The Film A simple concept it may be, but David Finchers’ creative talents turn Panic Room into a highly enjoyable pot-boiler. Though never reaching the classic status ...
...impact, but that doesn’t stop Panic Room from being a tense and terrific thriller. Picture and Audio Presented in Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1. The picture is crisp and clear and once you realise exactly what went into to creating the films colour you will appreciate it even more. The piece de resistance is 'The Big Shot'..the camera swoops down three floors from Megs bedroom to witness the attempted break in, all while zooming in and out ... Read review

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16.04.2004
SHAKE A LEG MEG - YOU'VE GOT COMPANY
Review of Panic Room (Wide Screen) by LostWitness

Advantages: Gripping, well crafted thriller
Disadvantages: The ending..oh, the ending...

...crime is to have a panic room in your house. A panic room is an impregnable place of refuge, where the occupants of a house are able to hide out in the event that an intruder makes his/her way into the home. If you think about it, if used, a panic room is the ultimate symbol of violation – a man could literally become a prisoner in his own home. This is the idea behind David Fincher’s latest thriller. Meg Altman has recently divorced ...
...interestingly, there is a secret panic room behind the mirror in the main bedroom. Security cameras in every room, all of which can be watched from within the panic room, monitor the house. The room has an impregnable steel door, and an isolated telephone line, so that help can be reached in the event of an emergency. Despite her reservations about the size of the property and the fact that the house is rather creepy, Meg is persuaded to sign the ... Read review

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15.11.2002
Diamond review   Home Alone Advanced
Review of Panic Room (Wide Screen) by willgould

Advantages: Slick, the work of a genius.
Disadvantages: None

David Fincher (the Director of Panic Room) was attacked as a Neo- Nazi by many critics after his last movie Fight Club. He was also slated for Seven which came before that, establishing him as truly controversial. So in light of his past films, Panic Room is a step down from the critic bating Fight Club or the full on gore of Seven and Alien 3. This is his sixth film not his fifth as many people mistakenly believe, and he is currently one of only ...
...Panic Room takes after Finchers last hits and is a true masterpiece of suspense and non-stop thrills, as he proves himself the master at turning a run-of-the-mill idea into an electrifying, spellbinding thriller. Seven is a perfect example of this as the age old plot of an old and young cop after a serial killer is given a new fresh makeover, and this is true of Panic Room where ancient clichés are rejuvenated. Clichés are only bad when they don’t ... Read review

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04.05.2002
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Don't Panic, Better Late Than Never
Review of Panic Room (Wide Screen) by Crazy-Christian

Advantages: Impressive camerawork, good central idea and characters
Disadvantages: That magical something special is missing

Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) is recently divorced from her cheating husband and is looking for a new apartment for her and her daughter, Sarah (newcomer Kristen Stewart). Meg suffers slightly from claustrophobia so when they are shown round a spacious "Townstone" apartment in New York, consisting of several floors, they jump at the chance and move in immediately. The "Panic Room" of the title refers to a secret security room built into the main bedroom, ...
...It is impenetrable, complete with its own surveillance system, phone line and supplies. Unsurprisingly, on their very first night in their new home, the two women have to make use of the facility when a gang of ruthless robbers breaks in. Considering the room is supposed to be safe you might think that that would be the end of the movie, but far from it. The phone line is not connected, cutting them off from the outside world. Then it transpires ... Read review

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Panic Room (Wide Screen)

Main specs

Actor(s): Jodie Foster, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Holt McCallany, Ann Magnuson, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan, Kristen Stewart, Andrew Kevin Walker

Director(s): David Fincher

Genre: Thriller & Mystery - Thriller

Classification: 15 years and over

Production Year: 2001

Running Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: Meg Altman and daughter, Sarah, take sanctuary in her New York apartment's 'panic room' which is designed to act as a refuge in the event of a break in...

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): 4 FRONT VIDEO; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS

Release date: 04/04/2005

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: C 823 404 1

Barcode: 5050582340419

Screenwriter: David Koepp

Composer: Howard Shore

Director of Photography: Darius Khondji, Conrad W. Hall

Producer: Cean Chaffin, Gavin Polone, Judy Hofflund, David Koepp

Author: David Koepp

Languages

Main Language: English

Subtitle Language: Dutch, English, Hindi

Hearing Impaired Language: English

Technical information

Special Features: Director And Cast Filmographies, Panic Room Teaser Created By David Fincher

Aspect Ratio: 2.40 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen

Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1

Dubbing Sound: DTS English
Dolby Digital 5.1 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), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam)--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)

"...Smartly plotted, convincingly acted and brilliantly executed technically....[An] engrossing thriller..." (Variety, p.35-42, 25/03/2002)

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