2002 · thriller
Panic Room
Directed by David Fincher1h 51m2002
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Our read: Panic Room (2002) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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