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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community May 1, 2002
Pros: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker
Cons: a few plot flaws...just don't over analyze!
Summary: I really wasn’t sure how much I wanted to see Panic Room. I’m not usually too keen on “women in jeopardy” type movies. You know, the “Perils of Pauline” sort of thing where some big brave handsome man comes along and saves the day. My mistake was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 24, 2010
Pros: Direction, cinematography, cast, characters, script, score
Cons: A few clichés
Summary: Jodie Foster, recently divorced from wealthy ex-husband Patrick Bauchau, moves into an expensive, spacious Manhattan home with her daughter Kristen Stewart (who originally I thought was a boy!). The house comes equipped with one eccentric special feature ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 1, 2010
Pros: great acting, well filmed, suspenseful
Cons: storyline flaws & contrived moments
Summary: There are a few movies that I can recall in my life saying "I want to see that" when they first came out. Then, for whatever reason, they fell off my radar. Usually it has something to do with mommy-chaos. Panic Room was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2010
Pros: Foster, Yoakam, Whitaker, entertaining, Fincher's direction, cinematography
Cons: Is this meant to be a comedy? Stewart and Leto, fairly predictable, not really edgy
Summary: Let's face it: Jodie Foster hasn't been in anything good since Contact. Before that it was Silence of the Lambs. I like to consider this as her third best effort (behind the stuff she ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 15, 2008
Pros: Interesting, family hides from intruders in safe room, suspenseful but not that scary
Cons: One anticlimatic part to it
Summary: With all of the recent storms and cable being out, I have been watching videos lately. One is Panic Room which I suspected to be suspenseful and a bit frightening especially with all of the lightning and thunder lately! It was not as bad as I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2007
Pros: David Fincher, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, excellent cinematography, intriguing plot.
Cons: A more fulfilling ending.
Summary: [For starters, I apologize for the cliched title; I just woke up] Firstly, I am an absurd Jodie Foster fan -- I think she is the greatest working actress today, so when I saw the (superb) theatrical trailer for Panic Room back in 2002, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 21, 2007
Pros: Panic Room featured some excellent actors/actresses.
Cons: Too many curses.
Summary: In times like this where in the news, more and more home invasions pop up, a panic room seems like the perfect room to have in any room. Sony Pictures released a movie entitled Panic Room which involved a situation of this sort. The ASCAP ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 6, 2003
Pros: Forest Whitaker, and Jodie Foster running around in tanktop. Some scenes are filmed very nicely.
Cons: The movie is a tad too long for me. It slowly becomes predictable.
Summary: This movie is extremely suspenseful. That is pretty much the bottom line for a review. There is no deep subject matter. You don't feel for the characters. You don't know what will happen next. So this movie pretty much makes a review impossible to write. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 16, 2003
Pros: acting, Foster, Yoakam, Whitaker, Stewart, plot
Cons: ending scene could have been better
Summary: Hey, guys. This is another on of my movie reviews. Hopefully it will be good for you. Meg Altman ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 8, 2003
Pros: An interesting star of the movie
Cons: The superbit disc crams so much info that no extras are available.
Summary: A divorced mother and her daughter move into a spacious Manhattan home where the former owner built ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 23, 2003
Pros: Foster and Stewart, unique plot, cinematography
Cons: darkness, not much suspense
Summary: One night about 4 months ago, a good friend and I decided to have a stay-in girls night. We headed t ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 2, 2003
Pros: Fun, tense thriller, very good performances
Cons: Plot eats everything, characters are a bit thin
Summary: In David Fincher's Panic Room, we get to experience the dreads of the modern rich: super secu ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 3, 2003
Pros: The cinematography by Conrad W. Hall
Cons: Tne entire proceedings.
Summary: PANIC ROOM
Directed By: David Fincher
Starring: Jodie Foster, Forrest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakum, Kristen
Stewart, Patrick Bauchau
Columbia Pictures
2002
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 3, 2003
Pros: Suspenseful, exciting, heart-rending (in the end)
Cons: Not scary, a bit predictable
Summary: This movie was HILARIOUS. And really quite good.
You see, I went into that movie theatre completely expecting to be scared out of my mind. I was terribly disappointed, but I can't say that it didn't turn out to be totally awesome.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 25, 2003
Pros: The unique opening credits
Cons: Many, many, many.
Summary: I hate writing reviews where I have to force myself. This normally only happens with pictures that are outstanding examples of contemporary audiences's willingness to praise and patronize schlock. Sad to say, Panic Room is just such a film.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 27, 2002
Pros: Foster, Whitaker, The House
Cons: should have been Kidman, linear plot, seen it before, visually uninteresting (color)
Summary: Let me ask you this. “Have ya had enough? Or are ya thirsty for more?” Sound familiar? The reference is from Home Alone, the anti Christmas movie, and instead of cute 8 year old Macaulay Culkin asking the hypothetical ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 25, 2002
Pros: Performances by Foster, Stewart, Whitaker, Leto; direction by Fincher; cinematography by Khondji and Hall
Cons: Performance by Yoakam; cardboard characterizations in screenplay by Koepp; no worthy special features
Summary: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."
This famous quote, which had lived as a mainstay at the forefront of human philosophy for numerous decades, taught us the lesson that fear was an absolutely self-destructive and, sometimes, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 23, 2002
Pros: Excellent claustrophobic scenes, intence, fantastic visual style
Cons: The plot isn't any complicated or what so ever, no plot twists
Summary: There it was on my desk. Panic Room, the latest thriller from David Fincher. I kinda like David Fincher, he's one of the very few directors that really thrills me with his movies. For example The film Se7en, probably his best known film, is a smash-hit ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 17, 2002
Pros: Good performances, camera work
Cons: Predictable storyline
Summary: When Panic Room was first released, I knew I wanted to see it. Starring Jodie Foster, whose acting talents I admire, and directed by David Fincher, of Se7en and Fight Club fame, for me this was a must see. I even went out of my way ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 7, 2002
Pros: interesting premise, haven't seen this story before
Cons: some characters are a little flat, ending could be more eventful
Summary: The hype over this one was a little misleading. I expected a little more action and a little deeper story, but hey, it wasn't entirely terrible.
The story overall is one I haven't seen before, and Jodie Foster gave a good performance.
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 2, 2002
Pros: Very good movie for a date or for a weekend.
Cons: Should have ended better.
Summary: I am not a big Jodie Foster fan but this movie had me in my seat for the whole thing.It is not like some of the movie's now day's that it take forever to get into.It started from start to the finish.Jodie Foster did a great job.This is a good movie for ... read more
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