Panic Room (2002)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 112m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Patrick Bauchau
Synopsis:
A divorced mother and her diabetic teenage daughter move into an expensive New York brownstone on the settlement proceeds but their first night in their new home is disturbed by intruders seeking the hidden loot of the house's previous, deceased millionaire owner, which just happens to be located in the one room of the house in which its occupants are likely to take refuge.
Review:
Nice variation on Gaslight (and Wait Until Dark), the gas here replaced by surveillance monitors, this generic exercise is brilliantly mounted over several floors of a house to which we are introduced by a rather MC-like estate agent at the beginning. The three unities are scrupulously observed thereafter, adding to the tension already obtained by clever direction and a sustained performance from Foster. A taut, at times harrowing, thriller which suffers from characters that are like B-movie ciphers or pawns in a video game.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 112m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Patrick Bauchau
Synopsis:
A divorced mother and her diabetic teenage daughter move into an expensive New York brownstone on the settlement proceeds but their first night in their new home is disturbed by intruders seeking the hidden loot of the house's previous, deceased millionaire owner, which just happens to be located in the one room of the house in which its occupants are likely to take refuge.
Review:
Nice variation on Gaslight (and Wait Until Dark), the gas here replaced by surveillance monitors, this generic exercise is brilliantly mounted over several floors of a house to which we are introduced by a rather MC-like estate agent at the beginning. The three unities are scrupulously observed thereafter, adding to the tension already obtained by clever direction and a sustained performance from Foster. A taut, at times harrowing, thriller which suffers from characters that are like B-movie ciphers or pawns in a video game.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe/Super 35 112m
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Patrick Bauchau
Synopsis:
A divorced mother and her diabetic teenage daughter move into an expensive New York brownstone on the settlement proceeds but their first night in their new home is disturbed by intruders seeking the hidden loot of the house's previous, deceased millionaire owner, which just happens to be located in the one room of the house in which its occupants are likely to take refuge.
Review:
Nice variation on Gaslight (and Wait Until Dark), the gas here replaced by surveillance monitors, this generic exercise is brilliantly mounted over several floors of a house to which we are introduced by a rather MC-like estate agent at the beginning. The three unities are scrupulously observed thereafter, adding to the tension already obtained by clever direction and a sustained performance from Foster. A taut, at times harrowing, thriller which suffers from characters that are like B-movie ciphers or pawns in a video game.