Wordiezett So much average

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

derbo73 The setup and beginning are quite interesting as not much is being revealed. Although the 6 month flashback right after a decent opening is the first downer in a long series in this flick.The characters are unbelievable naive or overly arrogant and stupid. The only believable guy is the bank robber Esther.The home security system and company are a joke. A multi-million dollar home (more a castle) with probably a few dozen rooms and the most expensive smart home rigging installed and they can't do better than this? I expected some really good applications of what such a setting could offer to hide, set traps, escape, counter-attack or do anything to play mind tricks in the gangsters - but all they could do was hacking into the stereo system (well...don't bother) and make some noise for a moment. In the end the security company does very little to save the protagonists, everything that made a difference was done without the aid of the mike guy, who himself was pretty lost all the time.The road block and the time it took the police to reach a crime scene are so constructed - no one would build such a villa in a remote backwater place. Someone who could buy such a house and stuff would also assign at least one security guard to the building - who would have died first, but OK.All in all the story and characters are plain and lifeless, everything feels very constructed and there is never any real suspense building up.Not even worth watching on a rainy Sunday evening with nothing to do.

hkytoire I really don't understand why movie makers can't come up with a common subject and twist it to make it different. Also, why not make it 100% realistic or close to it. This motion picture wasn't too bad till it was. Without listing many examples, around halfway through the two captives are hiding in the garage after catching and tying up one of the intruders, the other intruders are in the house. The mother says to the security agent - who the whole time is monitoring the house and on the phone - they can't exit the garage because they will be heard - DAHHHH - so what, they will be out of the house and free. Also, even after they didn't't run, they go back in the house, confront a gunman who lets them be, out of kindness, but still don't escape when the front door is right there - their second chance for freedom. Then they proceed to run upstairs into yet another gunman - LEAVE THE DAMN HOUSE. At that point I LEFT THE DAMN MOVIE because it was/is stupid garbage and an insult. Maybe there is a spectacular ending that explains this crap but other films, that are almost exactly like this, haven't so why would this end differantly? I can fix these things but who would listen to an avid movie viewer and a chef.

kimisner-85027 I very much enjoyed this movie and think people need to give it a chance. It's about caring also not just terror. Jason Patric is great in his role and shows the length a person would go to save another. Yes some of the scenes are repetitive, but in that situation for real that's exactly what would happen even without someone walking you through it. I feel this movie is not a waste of time to watch and fact is home invasions do happen all the time. This film was realistic and not overdone and fake. Everyone has their own opinions,this just happens to be mine.Take 85 minutes and give this movie a try. It was entertaining and definitely worth the time. I am glad I stumbled upon it

albereinstein Wow! What a pure waste of time watching this film. I mean from start to finish this was by far one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot. So the movies is about these people who Natasha Henstridge's husband have stolen from, and they arrive at her home to exact what is in a safe behind a wall in the house. The story never tells you anything of the who what when where or how or even the contents of the safe. Its just a home invasion of very upscale home in which they now terrorize a mother and her son. The mother calls their home security service and from there the movies just goes completely down hill. Personally I think this was a major slap in the face to 911 emergency and law enforcement, and nothing but a marketing strategy to get more middle to upper class homeowners to invest in security systems. But after watching this simply awful movie, all I wanna do is go out and get a 9mm and two Doberman. If wanna watch good home invasion movie, which most of you have probably already watched, nothing will beat Panic Room.