Panic Room (2002)
7/10
*****WARNING- SPOILER******
8 May 2002
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS BELOW************

The first half of this film was great, good build up, but I just couldn't ignore several holes....

The worst ones- 3 criminals, one of them an experienced guy who works for a security firm, break into a house with loads of cameras. First thing you do? Smash up the cameras, so the Panic Room occupants can't watch you, surely. Do they do that? No.

Raoul gets his hand trapped in the door- a very heavy door. Does he pass out? No. Does his hand, when freed, resemble a piece of bloody paper? No. In fact, this indestructable guy get additionally whacked over the head with a sledgehammer, knocked over a bannister and still comes back for more, to be a serious threat. Ridiculous.

And why, oh why,, just for once, can't the bad guys get away with it? Why did Forest Whittaker come back? Why not take off, and actually not be predictable? Using the morality thing, we know he was a 'good' character, didn't he deserve to get away with it?!

This could've been such a good film....
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