The panic room

Went to see it today. To slow,and the ending was a bit flat. Middle of the road stuff.

[Lex]

Originally posted by Seany boy!!!
Went to see it today. To slow,and the ending was a bit flat. Middle of the road stuff.

Worst review ever!

Shut up! or i'll tell you the ending

I'll tell you what was good though, the opening cast&crew credits. when you see it,you'll know what i mean

[Lex]

Originally posted by Seany boy!!!
I'll tell you what was good though, the opening cast&crew credits. when you see it,you'll know what i mean

David Fincher is the best in the business at credit sequences - eg Se7en & Fight Club

I can't believe it is as bad as you are saying. David Fincher is one of the best Directors out there, and the trailer looks amazing!

You may like it. it was ok, but don't expect anything like 7 lexy boy. You ain't gonna get it. The bad guys are not bad enough, and foster is not scared enough, it's like home alone for adults

Oops, i told some people to go and see it cuz i read alot of good stuff on it, they watched it tonite. I hope it isn't as bad as u make it sound otherise im in for it!

Is forest whittaker a real naff baddy?, as he looks to be one in the trailors.

[groundy]

Originally posted by geenuis


Is forest whittaker a real naff baddy?, as he looks to be one in the trailors.

I think Forest Whittaker is naff at everything.

None of them were hardly alan rickman, or john lithgo, (i like forest myself) but it's not a bad film-it's just not great. But that's just me. It's not up there with 7 or fight club imho.

Hears a reviw from the guardian : Myself and Diane (the ball and chain) feel much the same way about it (not influenced by it)

Panic Room

Peter Bradshaw
Friday May 3, 2002

The main panic you'll feel is being trapped inside a small, airless, overhyped movie with no prospect of being allowed out for a good couple of hours. Jodie Foster and her mini-me daughter move into an eccentric Manhattan townhouse after her divorce - and it's got a very strange feature: a fully functioning bunker to retreat into when violent burglars come a-calling. Which they do. Director David Fincher trundles out his trademark sub-atomic swoops through walls and floors, and some by-the-numbers tension/shocker moments that function like snooze-alarms in the general creeping dullness.

As so often, Jodie Foster is a bafflingly prim and solemn screen presence who somehow leaches the energy and suppleness out of a film. But this movie is in any case dotted with hilarious offences against plausibility. For some reason, the utterly impregnable room, with its elaborate hi-tech ventilation system, has a manky old length of pipe leading directly out into the street, handy for flashing SOS messages through. And the high point comes when Jodie Foster - trapped, but sensing that the main phone line is still working - wrenches the intercom phone handset out of the wall and ingeniously "taps it into" the phone system's exposed wire to call the cops. Yeah, right. Perhaps for an encore, she can set up a fax, internet and cable-TV connection with a length of twine and an old Fairy Liquid bottle.

[monkeyleader]

"dont compare to fight club or seven"

I wasnt intending too, and dont see why people would. I went and saw it today and really enjoyed it. I wasnt expecting it to be as good as fight club, and it wasnt, but that said still a good show and one for the dvd collection later in the year !

cheers,

nige

[Reiner]

and dont see why people would

Because it's by the same director and surely people will have certain expectations after those two films.

I never knew it was before i watched it. So just wanted to see a really good film,but it's just an average film, very average

[andyp]

I quite enjoyed it, with the exception of the bloody Mission Impossible 2 style 'dynamic' camera manipulation!

Andy P.

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Title Credits are great on this film. I was hpnotised by them...great!

Got to disagree with the review though. I'd heard it was supposed to be slow and not exciting but I actually found it quite gripping. There were a couple of inconsistencies which are required if it was to be entertaining but other than that I enjoyed it.

The best bit of the trip though had to be the trailer for Spiderman! Looks really really cool.....


Gordon

[Rambo John J]

I enjoyed Panic Room too. All the trademark Fincher stylistics are there, just employed in a different way to his most popular films. I felt it played quite a lot like The Game and was just as gripped all the way through.

Gotta agree about that opening credit sequence.

[johnnyboy]

I loved it, great work from Fincher, definitely a thinking man's movie.