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Hollywood is forever telling us that the rich inhabit a world where they live in mortal fear of burglars. To such an extent, in fact, that they now have a safety outlet known as a ‘panic room’, built into many high value apartment blocks and des.res homes.
It is, of course, more than a mere room – more like a fortress, something that an elephant with a toothache would not be able to penetrate. Such a self contained sanctuary, also has facilities to conquer most sieges. Close circuit TV so you can see what’s going on in the rest of your home, telephone to the outside and enough supplies of food to get you through a nuclear winter – and a portaloo!
‘Panic Room’ – the movie - is the latest vehicle for Jodie Foster to display her varied acting talents. As Meg, she is recently divorced from her wealthy husband and she acquires a Manhattan town house, taking her young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) with her.
The room soon gets a chance to prove it’s value as Meg’s home is violated by a trio of villains. Burnham (Forrest Whittaker), Raoul (played by country singer, Dwight Yoakam) and the ever-so menacing Junior (Jared Leto). They are after a hidden fortune, left by the previous owner of the property and secreted in – you guessed it – the Panic Room!
Mother and daughter manage to elude the villains and get to the room just in time and the movie then focuses on how the thugs try to get their prey out of there. Plus, how Meg and her daughter can survive the terrifying attempts, try to summon help and overcome Sarah’s life threatening diabetic condition. Harrowing stuff at times and certainly something that any parent can really feel for.
There are plenty of dark corners for the Director to eeek out every last spooky chilling moment out of the plot. The deadly game of cat and mouse has you on the edge of your seat, at times (but not really ENOUGH times) as the advantage swings this way and that.
The house itself is certainly somewhere that I’m sure you and I would not fancy living. Each dark corner seems to house something nasty and creepy. Maybe next time Jodie should settle for something a little less ‘ritzy’ – a semi in Cleethorpes springs to mind, not much need to panic there (well, maybe…)
But, I digress. As ever, it is the emotional torment and torture portrayed excellently by Ms Foster that has taken this movie to the top of the US Box Office charts earlier this year. Surprise hit that it was, it is now replicatjng that success over here, to a certain extent and might be a good alternative for any of you wanting to escape the ‘Clones’.
It is not a perfect piece of work – after all, what genuinely is? - but you will find your buttocks gripping the edge of your seat from time to time (you really must change that underwear!) and you might find yourself choking on your popcorn a little.
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