Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders when they break in, searching for a missing fortune.
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November 30, 2014
How did Fincher - a director who is very good at supplying thrills to thrillers, whatever his other strengths or limitations might be - end up shepherding such a leaden film?
July 20, 2002
Fincher mounts some clever, tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force Meg and Sarah out of the panic room, only to be matched with improvised ingenuity from behind the vault door.
June 01, 2002
There's just no denying Fincher's gifts. Give the guy a camera or two or three, millions upon millions of dollars and state-of-the-art technologies, and there's no stopping him.
March 27, 2009
A thinking-man's women-in-jeopardy picture, Panic Room does about as much as humanly possible with its deliberately restricted one-setting premise.
April 01, 2002
... one of the most ingenious and entertaining thrillers I've seen in quite a long time.
May 03, 2009
Apart from one plot twist too many, "Panic Room" is a seamless suspense-thriller with a top-notch cast.
April 29, 2009
There are so little things you can do with this story and a lot of it is pretty contrived.
September 17, 2010
Valuing logic over brutality, David Fincher's claustrophobic ride also touted the real-world practicality of keeping quiet over the cinematic kicks of a loud thriller. It's like "Wait Until Dark" with helplessness that's emotional, not just physical.
December 27, 2010
Extreme suspense, graphic violence; not for kids.
July 02, 2008
David Fincher directs a nail-biter starring Jodie Foster about a mother and daughter who defend their house against a brutal home invasion.
June 24, 2006
Never averse to glistening darkness, meaty metaphor or grandiloquent technical display, Fincher is also surprisingly at home with hokum.
March 31, 2002
Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling.
