I like most of the David Fincher movies and have fun with them.
And i heard lots of people say this movie is his worst, and that it wouldn't be good. So of course I had to check it out.
Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) divorced from her husband and moved into a new house with her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). This house has a special "Panic Room" because the last owner was very anxious about people attacking him. Right in the first night they sleep there, 3 robbers (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker and Dwight Yoakam) break into the house to find some very worthy papers. Meg and Sarah of course hide in the panic room, which also hides the papers they are looking for.
So the bad guys want the family out, while the family just want them to leave them in peace.
The movie isn't shitty. It has some (many) shots that immediately show you that David Fincher is directing. I think they are a little too much cause we have these shots where the camera moves into something or moves through the ceiling/floor etc way too often.
But we have good acting. Jodie Foster is a good actress. Jared Leto and Forst Whitaker are good actors, too. Dwight Yoakam was a country musician and this was one of his first, if not the first, dramatic, dark role. He is really good, he wears a mask for the most time of the movie, but that only makes him more mysterious. He was really good in this.
And, what I didn't expect at all, Kristen Steward was neither bad nor annoying in this one. She was really good, did a good job.
I think what most people don't like about this (I always read reviews after I wrote my own review so I'm not biased) is that there are some logic holes, like when the cops arrive and she doesn't tell that what's wrong even though the bad guys can't hear her.
All in all it was an enjoyable movie though, it was fun watching and was way better than I expected. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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