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영화 자체가 밀실이고 패닉 룸인 셈이다. 그 외의 외부 정보는 중요하게 생각하지 않는다. 영화는 자체로 밀실이고 맥과 사라 모녀의 집 역시 밀실, 그리고 패닉룸 까지 완벽한 밀실이다.130831 (3.0)-1. 조디 포스터 언니라면 영화를 보면서 잠들지 않을 수 있다. 그 생각은 진리였다.2. 영화는 단순히 정말 단순히 중요한 내용에만 집중하고 있다.3. 영화는 부부의 이혼이나 경찰의 행동 혹은 주니어의 할아버지와 가족에 대한 이야기 부동산 이야기 등은 그다지 신경쓰지 않는다.4. 맥과 사라 모녀의 집은 정말 크고 웅장하며 천정을 통해 하늘까지 볼 수 있지만 외부인으로 부터 철저하게 막혀있다. 처음부터 단단한 밀실이었던 이 집은 보안전문가 번햄에 의해 위로부터 뚫린다.5. 그러나 그것은 밀실에 갇힌 사람이 늘어나게 해주는 것 밖에 되지 않았다. 도둑들도 집에서 나갈 수 없다. 그들은 지극히 평범한 사람들이었기 때문에 일반 사람들과 같은 공포가 있었다.면밀히 계획한 유산 도둑질에 사람이 끼이면서 그들은 가택침입 강도가 된것이다. 결국은 살인자까지 -6. 가장 겁쟁이는 라울이다. 일개 버스운전수는 큰 계획에 몸을 담겠다고 카리스마있는 척 하고 말했지만 결국은 겁쟁이이기 때문에 복면을 쓰고 총까지 가져왔다. 그에 의해 생기는 다양한 변수, 그리고 똑쟁이 맥에 의해 생기는 다양한 변수7. 외부와의 연결이 되었다 말았다 하는 그 긴박함이 영화 속에 아주 잘 살아있다. 보안카메라를 부시고 그림자가 보이지 않게 전구를 부시고 문을 잠그고 맥은 정말 그냥 아줌마라고 하기엔 긴장을 만들어내는 능력이 짱이었다. 온갖 영화에서 단련한 능력을 쏟아내는 느낌 -8. 크리스틴 스튜어트의 연기도 나름 괜찮았는데 크고나서 연기를 못해진건가 늘 저런 시크한 역을 해서 그런가 - 여튼 발작하는 것이나 애처럼 보이는 연기를 정말 잘했던 것 같다. 애라서 그래보이는건가 ?9. 동료까지 죽이고 개인적인 양심을 지키고선 도망가다가 잡힌 번햄은 경찰의 오픈 유어 핸드라는 말에 진짜 허탈한 표정으로 채권 22장을 놓아주는데 공중에 2200만불이 날아가는것이.. 아주 ... 장관이었다.10. 참고로 주니어는 레퀴엠의 해리였따 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 스타일이 아주 달라졌어 ㅋㅋㅋ 라이언 고슬링인줄 알았는데 ㅋㅋㅋ (그 유명한 자레드 레토 라는 거잖아 ㅋㅋㅋ)

Greetings from Lithuania. "Panic Room" (2002) is a thriller directed by David Fincher. The premise in this film is a very simple one - a three home invaders breach into a house were unsuspected mother and her daughter get trapped in a panic room, while burglars wry to get to them. Its a cat and mouse kind of a set up that plays out in basically one location. But what makes this movie work in my opinion is a stellar directing by David Fincher. This film while simple on premise delivers big time in its execution. Cinematography here is slick and involving. Pacing is excellent - at running time 1 h 47 min this film was very well paced. Nearly every scene was done so well that it looks and plays superbly well. Editing is nearly perfect. This all off course is a win of Mr. Fincher - a premise that simple in a other directors hands could have been a boring film. But nearly every scene here is done so well that i was glued to my screen during its run time. Overall, "Panic Room" isn't best film that David Fincher has done, but it is a very good one. Simple premise, but excellently executed one.

The ever reliable Jodie Foster and Forrest Whitaker help make Panic Room a fairly effective thriller.

Panique pas, c’est juste… médiocre en fin de compte, ce thriller à huis-clos, certes assez original de prime abord mais loin d’être aussi bon que les meilleurs du genre (comme un Phone Game par exemple). La faute bien sûr à un rythme trop lent (1h47 quand même !) et la faute aussi à une grosse incohérence (les flics déboulent d’on ne sait où, deus ex machina etc…). Trop de clichés également parmi les méchants : le méchant trop gentil, le méchant trop méchant et le méchant trop tocard pour être méchant…On ne s’ennuie pas (trop) et Jodie Foster assure au maximum comme à son habitude, mais Panic room malgré sa mise en scène bien léchée rame sévèrement et peine beaucoup à convaincre.

So technically superb that it doesn't even matter that its plotting and characters are straightforward, the directing, writing, and performances carry this way over its baseline.

Not a bad movie. She gets this new big house that she is building up. The guys working on the house **** with a plan to rob the panic room. Until the owner and her family lock themselves in the panic room to get away from them.

Panic Room is a real panic, and it's not just there, you can feel it by yourself that the movie is really didn't make you panic at the first place even when the robbery shows up, it slowly grow as it what happens through out the movie until it becomes a real panic, David Fincher's with his master of technique and direction, brilliant performance by all the cast, the tension, the build, Panic Room it's amazing.

This movie felt barely watchable but it didn't convince me. It didn't make me want to watch it again but I should probabily give it a second chance.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Panic room is a great thriller with a decent cast. Screenplay is pretty basic with an emphasis on visual flair over all else. Cue ridiculous over the top matrix inspired CGI swooping camera shots .... Pacing is ok but overall there is nothing groundbreaking or exceptional here (aside from the novelty of the panic room itself!).

The basic idea is great and I remember the movie as a top one. The suspense level is high all the time and the actions by the well written characters are intelligent. But there are big logical problems in the story: If you ignite gas, you will die. Diabetic patients need insulin, when their blood sugar level is high. If you do it on low blood sugar level, it will fall even more and you die.

Music videos or shorts aside, David Fincher’s Panic Room came at a time when he was actually at the peak of his powers after having already produced Fight Club (1999) and soon to deliver Zodiac (2005). That said, these works are so strong that Panic Room feels like a lesser work. That’s not to say that there isn’t much to admire, though. It’s a tried-and-tested, home invasion formula but Fincher has a solid handling on the tension and injects some technical wizardry that adds to the overall setting. The performances are also excellent and much as it isn’t exactly fresh material, Fincher is able to extract just enough mileage.

The film is fascinating beyond belief, Fincher presents a well crafted thriller with fantastic performances and an unsettling aura of fear disguised as safety.

The worst irony is that the panic room does not protect you from danger. Fincher (director) and David Koepp (writer) knew how give this story a believable suspense atmosphere till the last minute. For binge worthy, in this quarantine. If you have claustrophobia, beat it.

Hard for me to score this, as, as a piece of entertainment I thought it was a zero, I was so bored. And it was 100% joyless. As a piece of art, definitely not a zero. More like a 5 or a 6. But I'll score it mostly as a piece of entertainment and give it two.

The whole film was great I like the plot and how the film directed but I didn't like the ending, I was sad..

Entertaining and captivating, 'Panic Room' has all the potential to be one decent, good thriller, with not so complicated story and without variety of places, faces, blood and killing. With that in mind, the runtime could be less and the scenes - time dense, saturated with speed and even more tension. Also I would say that 'Panic Room' was a bit poor as regards to music and sounds. Meg Altman in the role of divorced mother, smart woman, who is not very happy, but is also protective of her child, acted outstanding and justify expectations for such a role. I could say 'Panic Room' is a little bit over rated, but definitely deserves a watch.

Not a perfect movie, but brings enough trilling to entertain and a story good enough to holds.

This movie has a simple script: a woman who has just moved is unexpectedly confronted with three burglars looking for money hidden in the house by the previous owner, taking refuge in a small panic room adjacent to the master bedroom. Everything happens in a house almost without furniture and with a cast reduced to the minimum. Sounds like a problem? I guarantee you will not. Lightness and simplicity make the film even more elegant and easier to enjoy. The film is not very tense and the antagonists are not necessarily bloodthirsty psychopaths, but the drama is guaranteed and the plot gives each actor the right time to shine without the film seeming to have been overstretched. In fact, the pace is good, especially given the simplicity of all the story. The cast features a young Kristen Stewart and veterans Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto. They all lived up to what we could expect, turning this movie into a small pearl of good quality.

i told you, i don't hurt people.. Panic Room Ticking for almost 2 hours, it seems a bit long and stretched considering its premise (it could have easily been of around 90 minutes), it needed a better editing to satisfy the viewers in the end but other than that it works for the most part of it. David Fincher doesn't compromise on the execution but seems a little irresponsible on the editing part and as far as David Koepp's screenplay is concerned; its perspective is interesting enough to invest in it, but lacks on proving a point. Jodie Foster is good in her part and is supported well by great cast like Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto and Kristen Stewart. Panic Room is a fine popcorn entertainer that roots for the big bucks but fails to go deep and take risks which then leads into a shallow soulless feature that looks good in a first glimpse but nothing beyond that.

Panic Room offers a very Hitchcock flare to a modern film. All shot in one location, the movie examines fear through the unknown. The underlying humour lies in the expertise of the villains as their plan systematically continues to fall apart throughout the film due to the protagonists quick thinking.

Panic Room is actually quite scary and with a interesting plot it is filled with action and excitment. It kept me guessing what was going to happen next.

Director David Fincher elevates the suspense while the script by David Koepp (Mission: Impossible, Spider Man and Jurassic Park) keeps us interested into the characters and their survival and they manage to make an above average thriller, anyway their not the stars the person who really shines in the film is Jodi Foster. Fincher lets his actors fit into the characters and into the film's world, Foster shines as a heroine and so does Kristen Stewart under the direction of Mr. Fincher. It's gory alright but it's under ratted film, it's over the top and it's not extremely gore film like "Seven" or "Fight Club" but who cares really. Meg Altman (played by Jodi Foster) is divorced and cannot get over her cheating ex-husband pharmaceutical magnate Stephen Altman (Patrick Bauchau) - and their street wise pre-teen Sarah (Kristen Stewart) are spending their first night at in brownstone in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The conversions, which include an elevator and a secure panic room, while the previous owner built the panic room a wealthy recluse whose family is now fighting over the whereabouts of his vast estate. Meg doesn't know part of the estate - is 3$ million dollars is hidden in the floor in the panic room something that the burglars Burnham, Junior and Raoul know. Junior (Jared Leto) is the grandson of the previous owner, Burnham (Forest Whitaker) works for a security system that monitors the security system for the brownstone including the panic room and Raoul is hired by Junior to help him and Burnham on the plan. The three men plan on retrieving the money. But they don't know that the house is empty, the three men break into the brownstone but realize the house isn't empty as they believed. When all five people realize there are unexpected people in the house, Meg and Sarah make into the panic room safely, unfortunately the phone doesn't work which Burnham knows of course. Also he knows him and his criminal partners can't get into the panic room. Meg and Sarah are not leaving the panic room, while the three criminals aren't leaving til they get their money which is in the panic room. As Meg and Ryan try to get the message outside. Their working against time as Sarah is a diabetic who doesn't have insulin. While Meg and Sarah are trying to solve their problems, the three criminals are having trouble too, the three are differing personalities and having trouble with the motivations for the money, each of them are having thoughts about how far will they go to get the money. The film engages you and is a nail biter, after you watch this movie you'll be satisfied. Grade A

Grafting twist after twist onto a classically simple setup, Panic Room plunges a dream home into a storm-drenched nightmare out of the grimiest pulps, dragging an unsuspecting mother (Jodie Foster) and child (Kristen Stewart) along for the ride. The latest from Seven and Fight Club director David Fincher, Panic offers a model of tightly orchestrated suspense, compressing Fincher's technical mastery into a pressure cooker of a film. As its unlikely heroine, Jodie Foster scares up deep reserves of cunning from beneath a surface that's all vulnerability. The newly divorced mother of a diabetic pre-teen (Stewart, making a deep impression in her second screen role), Foster takes over what fussy real-estate broker Ian Buchanan describes all too accurately as "a very emotional property," a three-story Manhattan behemoth of an apartment, most recently home to a sickly millionaire with a contested estate. It comes with all the amenities—six fireplaces, multiple bedrooms, a working elevator, stylish original fixtures—and one new addition, a hermetically sealed "panic room" outfitted with survival supplies, video monitors, and everything else needed to protect its wealthy inhabitants against home invasion. After only one night in their new home, Foster and Stewart realize why the room is necessary, when, as they sleep, three men (Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, and Jared Leto) come looking for the millions reportedly left in the apartment. Moments later, in the first of many shifts in the balance of power, the pair realizes the downside to their home-within-a-home: The treasure is in the panic room, and their guests have no intention of leaving until they have it. From there, a true battle of wits ensues, playing out through a series of gambits and countermeasures that turn the apartment into a war zone. Like past masters of suspense from Hitchcock to Spielberg, Fincher recognizes that a working knowledge of elementary physics improves any thriller. When action erupts, it does so in moments as carefully timed as Howard Shore's ominous score, but every moment carries an unsettling believability. That believability extends to the film's real masterstroke: its ability to invest all the players with such desperation that they seem capable of almost anything. Working from a screenplay by the estimable David Koepp, a top-form cast keeps the stakes higher than even the panic-room jackpot could cover. An old-house thriller retrofitted for the 21st century without any touch of unneeded flash, Panic Room is scary enough to do for downtown living what Jaws did for beaches. Fincher eschews quick cuts in favor of long, leisurely ones. He knows what he's doing, and the proof is in the result. The suspense in Panic Room never ebbs, and that makes for a thoroughly entertaining -- if somewhat exhausting -- 108 minutes.

Strong performances and a script that never fails to decrease It's intensity, Panic Room is successful thriller by an early director, David Fincher. The film proves you don't need a huge set and million dollar effects to make a thriller film entertaining.

David Fincher once again gives his viewers the feeling as though they are omnipotent as we look as a frighteningly realistic and heart stopping thriller. The performances are flawless, the direction is flawless, and the only flaw I have with it is a pretty basic plot and set up. And emotional and thrilling film.

Jodie Foster E Forest Whitaker são o que há de melhor no filme Whitaker mostra uma incrível atuação. Um suspense bem executado pelo David Fincher, Dwight Yoakam e Jared Leto também fazem bem os antagonistas.

One of the finest thrillers of her later career, Jodie Foster is exceptional in Panic Room. The film is fascinating beyond belief--and to this day, remains one of my go-to thrillers.

Surprisingly entertaining little flick. Would recommend to anyone whose already seen the best in genre (as it doesn't quite reach theses heights) but it a gripping, suspense-laden movie.

This is a good thriller movie.There is one problem where is the action?It's all in the end and when they run away from the **** best point in the movie is the cast(Forest Whitaker,Jodie Foster,Jared Leto)

Panic Room is a near-perfect suspense thriller by Fincher. Every aspect of it is intelligent, and the product is a very successful film. The movie benefits highly from the amazing cinematography. The camera pans the rooms, shows creative camera angles, and never misses an opportunity to produce amazing visuals. Fincher is the second master of suspense right next to Hitchcock himself, and knows how to keep us engaged and entertained throughout the film. The end result is a well-played, carefully executed, thrilling movie that never skips a beat.

This one is pretty good. Overall, it does a good job of making you feel anxious as David Fincher does a great job creating suspense in this one. At every turn, there is yet another thing that makes that suspense build and build. Jodie Foster does a typically great job in the lead and I also found myself enjoying the performance of the three robbers; Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam. Each one really represented a different type of robber, with one filling the "lawful evil", "neutral evil", and "chaotic evil", respectively. It was interesting to see this kind of shared focus in this film between Foster and her daughter and then the three robbers as they try to figure their way out of the situation they find themselves in. Overall, this one is not too complex, but that is not problematic, as it is quite enjoyable. My main complaint is concerned with the robbers. While I enjoyed watching them all fill the different roles of "evil", the film would have been better served if either A) we never saw the robbers' faces/heard them speak or B) they were all "chaotic evil". The added suspense from both of those options would have really elevated this one. Though, I am not complaining too much, because, as I said, I did enjoy the role to robbers played.

In slasher flicks like Scream (1996), break-ins are single scenes. Heist flicks like The Bank Job (2008) or The Score (2001) spend most of the films planning out the break-ins, and then only a scene or two actually carrying them out. So the fact that aside from the very beginning, Panic Room is just really one long break-in scene always made the film seem like a silly waste of time. I mean, it gives the whole plot away right in the title. A couple of thieves arrive and tear up the place, the family hides, problems occur. Hurray. The coincidence of everything just-so-happening to be available at the exact right time: the happenstance of the break-in coinciding with the idea that the house just so happens to contain a panic room, this seems too much to handle. Yet all the mighty forces align and provide the viewer with an experience that is actually quite satisfying. Although not an overly complicated plot, the script is very well written and includes explanations for exactly why these happenings occur as they do. For skeptic viewers like me, who usually find unexplainable exceptional coincidences a deal breakers, David Keopp’s logical, explanatory script (Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible) provides answers, and an excellent foundation for David Fincher to build his dark mess. (IMDB says Keopp got 4 million bucks for the script, so….). Seemingly, this film takes the primal fear of invasion, bad people coming into our homes in the night and doing bad things to us. But rather than exploit the concept a has been beaten to death, Panic Room does not rely on the traditional fear of invasion. It adds dimension, reason, even a kind of logic explaining how this whole event could have turned out right for everyone, if only it could have unfolded just a single day earlier. It is in considering the film’s simplicity that the profound difficulty of this film’s production is most realized. The decision for the director and crew to call “that’s a wrap” must have been murky one. Unlike any of Fincher’s other films, Panic Room is shot entirely on only one set, in linear time, and deals with only with a single event. It is minimal in its approach, like a play. It is essentially all based on the interaction of the actors stage together, almost. Forest Whitacker, Jodie Foster and even Dwight Yoakam all crank out great performances, but Fincher’s dark, perfectly influential shots, using unusual angles, intercoms and video cameras, small vs. open spaces, and of course, darkness and rain are what make this cinema, and not theater. Aligning open frames with great musical peaks, the score by Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) intensifies the single track plot of Panic Room, pushing it along as a series of arcs, suspensefully running up and down, each arc increasing in intensity, until the film hits the peak, and even though we knew all along what was coming, we are still very satisfied with when it finally does.

Panic Room will make you jump with intensity. A very simplistic but extremely well crafted plot with heart pounding suspense that steals the show, Jodie Foster once again finds success.

Boasting some stellar imagery from one of Hollywood's most recognizable modern directors, and an almost unbearable undercurrent of dreadful tension throughout, "Panic Room" easily makes for one of the most potent home invasion thrillers I've ever seen.

Intense old-house thriller ready to take your breath away. The cast here is excellent (Foster, Stewart, Leto and Whitaker) and Fincher's direction is exceptional as always.

Brilliant movie loved it to bits, thrilling till the last minute, Sarah looks like a boy though.Perfect besides one aspect! One of the three crooks is way too likeable and should have never made it into the final cut!

Panic Room is a taught, clever thriller with a strong human core. The main body of the film is extremely enthralling - a battle of wits and endurance plays out between a caring, protective mother (Jodie Foster) and the good-natured "brains" behind a trio of home-invading criminals (Forest Whitaker). It's among director David Fincher's most fun and unpretentious films (though he quite unfairly seems to dismiss it in interviews), and his technical ability as a director marries well with an electric script by David Koepp. Foster and Whitaker both impress, giving layered and engaging performances as contrasting characters who in fact have a lot in common in their shared intelligence, determination and resilience. A young Kristen Stewart is also very good, with her now famous moody, deadpan acting style lending itself well to playing an insecure, diabetic pre-teen. Panic Room's finale is admittedly a bit scrappy, and the arrival of one of the characters seems to serve the sole discernible purpose of bringing proceedings to an end, which is a welcome reprieve to an extent, as by this point the film is just beginning to tire. As a whole, Panic Room is well-crafted, entertaining and tense, and it actually leaves a lasting impression on the viewer, no matter what its helmsman Mr Fincher may think of it.

an amazing film by a great director,but it's not perfect, it has it's flaws but i give 8/10 because of the brilliant performances , and plot is also interesting..