Panic Room

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First time viewed: No
Current Release: No
Watched With: Amberly

This is a great tense little thriller from David Fincher. It's not as heavy going as some of his other films, it's nice the throw on and have fun with. Jared Leto is pretty funny and once again Fincher delights in destroying his face.

This has his typical very polished look in visual style and editing and he uses quite a few digital tricks and virtual camera moves to keep a film that take place pretty much entirely in a few rooms of an empty house as interesting as possible. I think he possibly even goes a little too overboard with some of these shots. As much as I love them they do draw a lot of attention to themselves. I think Zemekis managed to pull of a few crazy shots that never took you out of the film in the similarly toned What Lies Beneath. Nevertheless the whole breaking in sequence done in one take is impressive.

Jodie Foster is great in this, I really can't imagine what it would be like if they ended up with their original casting of Nicole Kidman. She does make a brief cameo as a voice on the phone though. This is the first film I saw Kristen Stewart is and she does look remarkably like Jodie Foster's daughter.

I'm still waiting for that long rumoured special edition disc but so far this film doesn't seem to have been popular enough to warrant it's release. I still enjoy this one from time to time, it's a great looking and paced thriller.