Word: panic
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Foster portrays Meg Altman, a newly divorced mother who decides to purchase a newly available brownstone on the Upper West Side. Formerly owned by an eccentric millionaire, the apartment boasts a “panic room,” which is essentially a locked room deisgned to keep out invaders. However, this particular panic room houses several million dollars hidden by the millionaire and is the target of the three theives who break into Meg’s apartment her very first night...
...movie’s plot is plagued by illogical twists that leave the audience frustrated and irritated. Meg Altman predictably suffers from claustrophobia, though the disorder only surfaces during the first few hours of her confinement in her new home’s panic room. After Fincher satisfies himself that her claustrophobia has been successfully established, he moves on to another fairly well established cinematic trend, the fatal, time-dependent illness of Foster’s young daughter (Kristin Stewart). From an evil stepmother to a greedy young heir, a disconnected security phone line to a criminal disguising himself with...
Furthermore, to add to film’s impracticality, Meg Altman is able to cause a plume of propane gas to ignite from the panic room with impunity, yet the same ignited gas burns the incompetent thief, Junior (Jared Leto), despite the thick wall of concrete and steel between him and Meg. The survival boxes in the panic room contain fire blankets and mouthwash, but no food to alleviate the diabetic daughter’s drop in blood sugar while trapped in the panic room. The plot jerks such movements in such a contrived manner that the audience is able...
...protect her daughter are portrayed as valiant and admirable—a mother’s natural instincts—Burnham’s motives for breaking into the Altman’s brownstone, while objectively no less admirable, (his drive to reach the millions hidden in the panic room is motivated by his need to finance his fight for the custody and protection of his children) are vilified. Both are driven to extremes by fundamental parental intuitions, yet one is considered courageous and bold, and the other, vile and unlawful. It is a provoking topic that is given only...
Packed with twists and turns, bells and whistles, guns and explosions, Panic Room is an undirected and disjointed mania of contrived triggers. Ultimately for all its trouble, Fincher produces a rather bland movie...