In association with

Panic Room [2002]
from 4 Front Video
starring Jodie Foster|Forest Whitaker|Jared Leto|Kristen Stewart
directed by David Fincher

Features:

• PAL
• Widescreen

Editorial Review:

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.

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 her Silence of the Lambs resourcefulness. It's not as viscerally satisfying as Fincher's previous thrillers, but Panic Room definitely holds the viewer's attention. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• great setting and scenario, but executed poorly
  Jodie Foster (Silence of the lambs) stars in David Fincher's claustrophobic thriller as Meg, a mother who, along with her daughter Sarah, get trapped inside a panic room whilst robbers invade their house.
  I'm a big fan of the claustrophobic thriller genre, having scene great films like Air force one and Die Hard, which are both set in just the one main place are excellent viewing and very gripping. This 2002 picture is fairly exciting, but doesn't match the excitement of those other thrillers.more info

• Impressive movie, warning about packaging
  I've heard rave reviews of this movie from here and others so decided to buy it, and it definately is an impressive move.
  Word of warning, the packaging looks nothing like the pictures amazon uses, it's just the 3 disks in a plastic case like any other dvd, so don't buy it assuming you'll get the fold out version because you'll be dissapointed. not returning as it's opened now.

• HOME ALONE WITH GUNS
  The idea was there but the story was PANTS.
  Americans have a panic room (i wish i had room for another bedroom) which is a windowless, steel doored room which you hide in when burglars get into your house. We have one at home, called a shed !!
  Jodie gets broken into and guess where she goes? Yep, into the old Panic room with her daughter. The brainless gang of intruders seek to ferret her out by pulling the light switch off and yelling at her.
  Watch it but don't cancel any other plans.

• A pale imitation of Hitchcock
  There are some movies that when you watch them they feel like they were just thrown together for a thrill ride. Jurassic Park III is a perfect example of this. It's like the screenwriters said, "Hey, lets throw all these characters on an island filled with dinosaurs for about an hour and a half and watch them struggle to survive, and then lets get them out so we can do another sequel." Good character development is thrown out the window because they just want plot.
  Panic Room is much the same way. The... more info

Similar Products:

More from Amazon