Panic Room (DVD 2002)

This movie isn't bad, but by no means does it live up to Fincher's last movie Fight Club, nor his previous movies before that: 'The Game' and 'Seven'. It's almost as if Fincher has taken a break from the hard-hitting, complex style of his three previous movies, and Panic Room is a relaxed, maybe even 'on-the-side' kind of project.
Panic Room has some memorable scenes, and when people ask me 'is it good?', I can only say that it's entertaining, but not to expect too much. So what good scenes? Well, go and see it and find out. All the performances are good, the actors seem relaxed. But for me, the movie, or more specifically the story, is missing something.
It certainly isn't missing special camera effects, there's plenty of this sort of thing - perhaps too much. The camera goes places where cameras aren't supposed to go. It's eye candy for eye candy sake.

Well from the fabulous opening credits with the stars' names hovering in the air along with the skyscrapers of New York, Panic Room looked like it was going to be great. The intriguing camera angles that came around the corners at the actors and through the keyhole to the burglars were very unique and piqued my interest. The burglars, were scary to a degree but were actually given personalitys as well which is quite unique.They represented all different personality types across the spectrum: Burnham (Forest Whitaker), the kindhearted inside guy who is just there to do his job and not hurt anyone; Junior (Jared Leto), the bitter son teetering on the brink of hysteria; and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam), the thug who doesn't mind shedding some blood to get the job done. While Jodie Foster is good the daughter blantly steals the show. The movie kept pace with the burglars trying everything possible to break into the panic room. Overall, this movie was definitely not as scary as I thought it would be, but it was enjoyable nonetheless.

Panic room always wanted to see it and i have to say i really enjoyed it, nice and simple plot. A bit of tension and willing Jodie Fosters character to run faster, the house its set in is top notch and all importantly ~Jared Leto has a role~ Worth watching.