Panic Room (Superbit Collection)

Panic Room (Superbit Collection)
by David Fincher

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Movie Review: An intense, suspensful thriller
Summary: 5 Stars

Meg, despite her claustrophobic tendencies, proves herself to be quite the clever survivor, engaging the bad guys in a mental chess game of ingenuity, desperation, and the type of bravery that can only come from a parent's instinctual necessity to protect his/her child. It's strange to think that Nicole Kidman was cast to play the role of Meg, bowing out a week or so into the project as a result of some type of injury. As with any Jodie Foster role, I can't imagine anyone else playing this main character. I love Nicole Kidman to death, but I think Jodie was much better suited for the part of Meg. Of course, Jodie can't do everything herself; the movie's overall effectiveness also hinges on the performance of the three bad guys. Jared Leto is quite good in a weasel sort of way, but Dwight Yoakam was quite unconvincing as the cold and hard "Raoul." Luckily, Forest Whitaker more than takes up the slack to give a performance worthy of a Jodie Foster film. He is the proverbial criminal with a conscience, and he plays the role extremely well, thereby churning up some additional emotions and feelings in the audience, creating more conflict in one's hopes of final resolution, and ensuring that the audience remains mesmerized in front of the screen until the credits roll.

The DVD heralds itself as a Superbit DVD, which means it optimizes sound and video at a much more impressive level than normal DVDs. I suppose this only adds to the effectiveness of the unusual camera angles and long camera pans moving from one story of the building to the others in long continuous shots. I'm just a regular movie watcher, though, so I can't tell much difference in Superbit vs. regular DVDs. I do know, albeit rather vaguely, that the Superbit technology works by using extra layers of the DVD to encode more technological whatsits and wossnames, extra layers that are often used for such things as extra features. This helps explain why Panic Room comes with virtually no special features at all, only a trailer for the movie and short filmographies of a few of the actors and filmmakers. Personally, I'd rather have a commentary and miscellaneous goodies. Ultimately, though, this movie is so good that it's really all you need to make you happy. Panic Room is a suspenseful thriller, but it really doesn't make any effort to scare the audience, making this a movie that all sorts of fans can marvel at and enjoy.

Summary of Panic Room (Superbit Collection)