Panic Room

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<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="501" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 146 WIDTH="495"><div> <IMG SRC="12b6688c0.jpg" border=0 width="104" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006CXGF/reelmoviecriticc"> Panic Room (Superbit Collection)on DVD</A>  </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="575"><div>  Panic Room</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> ***1/2 </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="575"><div> Rating</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> R for violence and language</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>Director</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> David Fincher</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>A touch of Edgar Allen Poe</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="575" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>Starring</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Jodie Foster</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Forest Whitaker</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Jared Leto</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Dwight Yoakam</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Kristen Stewart</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) got a wad of money in her divorce settlement and is looking for a high-end place to live on New York's Upper West Side with her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). What they find is a 4,800 square foot, three-story brownstone with an elevator, six fireplaces, and most notably of all, a state of the art panic room. This room is not just a hiding place but essentially a bank vault with it's own phone, TV monitoring, HVAC system, food, medical supplies, whatever you'd need in a time of crisis.</div> <bR> <div> Home invasion is high on the list of crises and that's just what happens. Three men break into the home, Meg and Sarah see them on the monitoring system and they scramble to secure themselves in the panic room. Meg wants the men to leave; however what they want is <B>in</B> the panic room. It seems that the former owner was eccentric to the point of hiding his money<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >-</FONT>now missing<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >-</FONT>in that chamber. The thieves are surprised to find the house occupied so soon after it was placed on the market. Because of other pending events, it's now or never to get the money.</div> <bR> <div> Burnham (Forest Whitaker) is a man who needs money, and prefers to avoid hurting anyone. He worked for the company that installed the panic room so he's able to bypass some of the systems that were thought to be impenetrable. We are tempted to tell you more but that would keep you from having as much fun as we had watching this thriller. Suffice it to say that Jodi Foster uses her intelligence to turn a story that appears would run out of gas in 30 minutes into what will undoubtedly be one of the best thrillers of the year. </div> <div>  </div> <div> Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) is a bad guy who you just hope gets his due by the end of the picture. Junior (Jared Leto) is the spoiled rich kid who is guiding this inside job so he does not have to equally share the proceeds with the other heirs. We like Whitaker and Foster so much that it does not compute that these two could be in a film together that we would not enjoy.</div> <bR> <div> Like the best Michael Douglas and Morgan Freeman thrillers (e.g. "Perfect Murder" and "Along Came a Spider"), "The Panic Room" has a similar level of suspense mixed with delicious evil in which we see good triumph in the end. The best films have a good set up, a better middle and a startling ending; "Panic Room" has all three. This is a film where half the fun is in smiling as you tell your friends that they'll have to see the movie to learn why you liked it so much because like with "The Sixth Sense," you're not telling!</div> <div>  </div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="621" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="617"><div> George O. 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