First, let me get one thing straight, I want 2 1/2, not 3. I think that this movie is above average, but not good. Like most have said, the camera is the real star of this film. Not Jodie Foster, not the criminals, the camera. The things they do with the camera are very amazing and make you wonder how they did that (The REAL mystery of this movie is whether the kid is a boy or a girl-It's a girl, by the way). The movie was not that terribly suspenceful and all of the events seem too convienient. Like how there is a high-tech panic room that you must CALL the police when the door shuts instead of it automatically warning the police. Or how the room has no stock of food for some reason. I may be putting this movie down a lot, but it really is not that bad. It was entertaining to say the least. I just wish there was more. By the way, don't expect a proper ending, just take it for what it is, crap.

I really don't know why people think a movie is good just because the photographic angles are unique. I was quite disappoiinted with this film. It was too predictable, even hokey at times and the ridiculous criminals were totally underdeveloped. The ending leaves you wanting. There are too many questions left unanswered and if your looking for action (or real suspense for that matter) go see another film. If you just want to waste $7 it's not a bad fix. There are some great cinemagraphic shots and perspectives that cause you to wonder "how'd they do that?" but over all I'd have to say don't expect much and you'll probably be satisfied ? expect a lot and you'll be sorely disappointed.

David Fincher is a genius. Panic Room was a beautiful movie, from the shots through random objects such as an empty wine glass or broken eyeglasses or the cinematography movements between stories. I don't know why the drug use was a factor in the movie. Just because her daughter was a diabetic and needed a shot doesn't make her a junky. Jared Leto's character does make an indirect comment towards prescription drugs in the bathroom..."How can you live in New York and not have one Perkaset?" For all of you sheltered folks, it's a mighty good painkiller. Anyway, after going on that tangent, it was R, it deserved to be R. Jodie Foster did an excellent job. If anyone's performance needed to be better, it would have to be the daughter's in a couple scenes. In a few "behind the scenes" programs I've watched, Jodie Foster said this movie took her longer to make than Contact and it was 5 people in one house. All I'm saying is it could have been a little better, but I was more than satisfied with my seven bucks. The three criminals downstairs were excellently developed, like three different sides of one personality, the ego, the coldheartedness, the soft spot. They all acted very well. I wish the husband would have appeared more, but that's kind of the way David Fincher works. Anyway, I liked it a lot. Go see it.