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	The Popkorn Junkie :: Panic Room
		Jared Leto stars as Junior, the thief who orchestrated the entire burglary, but the one who also seems the most useless in the trio.
		Forest Whitaker is creepy, yet thoughtful as the sinister crook, and Dwight Yoakam plays one hell of a convincing bad guy.
		Jared Leto is over-the-top, but amusing and provides comic relief.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/panicroom.html (953 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Panic Room Movie Review
		Meanwhile, Jodie Foster is acutely watchable whether she's making a slow-motion dash to the safety of the panic room with the bad guys on her tail, or struggling to keep her daughter calm as her blood sugar level plummets.
		The rest of the cast -- with the possible exception of Jared Leto, who should be put on a leash -- is stellar as well, particularly Forest Whitaker as the most decent among the thieves.
		Whitaker, a big teddy bear with a melancholy gleam in his eyes, gives his character a much deeper life than he probably had on the printed page.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /panicroom.html (620 words)

	The Panic Room - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Whitaker plays a man who installs these rooms and has a head for inventive ideas, while Dwight Yoakam is the menacing heavy.
		Jared Leto is barely recognizable and is the one who masterminds the robbery, but isn't at all sure of himself.
		Foster and Whitaker both give their usual strong performances, and newcomer Stewart is surprisingly effective (surprising because it's a demanding role, and she pulls it off).
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/movies/panicroom.html (1706 words)

	Latino Review
		As it was, the bad guys were not unique in any way, other than Dwight Yoakam's terrifying-looking face, the husband was a complete throw away and I found myself wondering why he was even introduced, and I kind of felt like the actors were playing themselves in general.
		Jared Leto's whole Requiem For A Dream repeat loser druggy performance was at moments nauseating.
		Ironically, Forest Whitaker is the heart and soul of this film.
	www.latinoreview.com /moviereviews/2002/panicroom/panicroom.html (1292 words)

	Panic Room Review (2002)
		Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Kristen Stewart, Patrick Bauchau
		The burglars are composed of Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto) and Raoul (Dwight Yoakum).
		Burham works for the security company that installed the panic room and Junior was a male nursing companion to the old man, whose confidence he finally gained and who eventually related to him the story of a secret safe in the room that holds a treasure.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=414 (991 words)

	Review - Panic Room ***1/4 - CTF
		To his credit the character is probably supposed to be portrayed as a selfish brat that has no idea what he gets himself into, but Jared Leto seems to overact this part a little too much.
		Warranting acclaim for his role as Burnham, Forest Whitaker does a good job as a guy trying to do essentially what Jodie Foster's character is trying to do, help his family.
		Whitaker plays the role perfectly, effectively conveying the emotional strain on his character, whose needs and desires are at war with his conscience.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /review_panicroom.htm (658 words)

	Panic Room London Movie Review
		Neither Whitaker nor Leto are really evil - they weren't expecting to find anyone in the house and they both have their reasons for being there - so there's a lot of tension as to how far they'll go to get what they want.
		Apparently she was pregnant for the latter stages of the film (which was shot chronologically for obvious house-destroying reasons), though luckily Fincher never has to resort to hiding her behind tabletops and the like.
		Of the rest of the cast, Whitaker is the standout and succeeds in making his character believably sympathetic.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_996.html (698 words)

	Dan Heller's Movie Review of "Panic Room"
		Sure enough, on the first night, Meg and her diabetic daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) find themselves holed up inside, while three villains (one of whom is Forest Whitaker) break in the house to steal a stash of loot left behind by the recently deceased previous owner.
		Forest Whitaker's motivations for robbing the house are implied strongly in the beginning, but the "need" is never followed through to allow us to feel justification for his taking such risks.
		And finally, while Whitaker's character has a "change of heart" to do something "good", the film doesn't follow through with any sort of acknowledgement by Meg to bring closure to their unfortunate and tragic encounter.
	www.danheller.com /Movies/panic-room.html (521 words)

	Amazon.com: Panic Room (2002) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is in one such room that a divorced mother (Jodie Foster) and her daughter (Kristen Stewart) take refuge when three burglars (Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, and Jared Leto) break in at night.
		Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam play the thieves who force Foster and Stewart into the panic room.
		Whitaker is the compassionate brains of the bunch, a security expert with his own reasons for being on the job.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006CNVJ?v=glance (2029 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Panic Room (2002)
		Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Patrick Bauchau, Ian Buchanan, Ann Magnuson
		The trio of criminals are stock characters, consisting of the none-too-bright one (Jared Leto in dreadlocks), the sensitive one (Forest Whitaker), and the complete psycho (Dwight Yoakam).
		At times he is quite obviously showing off--like with the sliding camera movements (partly computer-generated) through the house, tracking Whitaker's attempts to enter via the front door, the back door, the windows, and finally the skylight, seemingly in a single take.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/p/panicroom.htm (683 words)

	The Trades - The Panic Room
		Are they two separate lines conjoined for the trailer's sake, or are they meant to portray the two characters' differing perspectives on their situation.
		Leto last worked with Fincher in "Fight Club," and last year shattered his teen dreamboat image in Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream." It appears from his amount of screen time in the trailer, that Leto is indeed the primary adversary for Foster and Stewart.
		However, Forrest Whitaker appears to also have a prominent role as an outsider of the room.
	www.the-trades.com /article.php?id=963&print=yes (757 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Panic Room: Superbit (2002)
		Whitaker does an excellent job inspiring sympathy for his character while keeping him flawed and realistic.
		On the opposing side is Raoul (a nearly unrecognizable Dwight Yoakam), a detestable man whose macho attitude may jeopardize the entire operation.
		The jittery, fairly unintelligent Junior (Jared Leto) stands between the two forces but lacks the fortitude to solve any problems.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3972 (1279 words)

	Panic Room Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Post-separation, she and her daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), move into a massive brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side which features an interesting architectural anomaly — an ultra-secure secret chamber called a panic room, built for sequestering away one's riches or hiding from unwanted visitors.
		Newcomer Stewart does a bang-up job as Sarah, and '80s art-house vixen Ann Magnuson is a hoot in her cameo as a real estate agent.
		Of the villains, Whitaker and Yoakam are solid, but Leto's character quirks become wearisome by the end of the picture.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131771&Tab=DVD (967 words)

	Panic Room - Movie Review
		The special thing about the house, apart from being creepy with a capital C and inexplicably bathed in a constant green light, is that it has a panic room - an impenetrable closet-space in which to hide from any passing baddies.
		Crouched inside the super-expensive panic room facility, Meg and Sarah must be left wondering why the previous owner didn't put some of that investment into making the house a little less easy to break into in the first place.
		Foster's her usual reliable self and Whitaker does a decent enough job as the "nice" one among the villains - although he can't be all that nice, bearing in mind that he's just broken into someone else's house.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/123 (552 words)

	KINNOPIO - Panic Room
		Even the best in Hollywood can't get it right all the time, but it speaks to the success of David Fincher's career that he can have an off day and still be very good.
		In a lot of ways, Panic Room is similar to 1994's The River Wild, a suspense thriller in which Meryl Streep played a whitewater rafter who is forced at gunpoint to take two robbers through dangerous rapids as part of their getaway.
		Although calling it "white-knuckle" may be something of an overstatement, the story will often have the viewer gripping the armrests of his or her seat with something more than normal pressure.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2002/panicroom.htm (810 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - David Fincher - 2002 - Panic Room Movies Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The panic room is basically a steel box with a separate air supply and telephone line, and a bank of monitors attached to cameras throughout the house.
		What follows is a mind game between Meg and the robbers, as they try to get her out of the panic room.
		Whitaker has always struck me as an interesting actor more for his choice of roles than his acting talent.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10002847 (1122 words)

	Panic Room (2002) A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		The former abode of a wealthy eccentric, this townhouse contains an unusual extra feature, a supposedly impenetrable "panic room" equipped with surveillance monitors, a separate phone line, and other survival aids, where residents can hide in case of emergency.
		When three men--Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam)--break into their new home, Meg and Sarah end up using the panic room much sooner than they could have possibly imagined.
		Jared Leto as Junior = foolish, mindless and self-centered evil.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /panic_room.htm (979 words)

	Cycle News Online
		He led from start to finish, while Jared Whitaker and Scott Varney tried in earnest to catch the leader.
		Whitaker and Varney finished second and third, respectively.
		Blake won the second moto for the overall win, while Whitaker, Varney, King and Davis all finished in the same order as in the first moto.
	www.cyclenews.com /events/PrintStory.asp?HeadlineID=380 (543 words)

	The Panic Room Reviews
		Starring Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Patrick Bauchau, Ann Magnuson and Ian Buchanan.
		Left by her wealthy older husband for another woman, an emotionally unsteady Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her teenage daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) move into the massive brownstone of a deceased, eccentric millionaire.
		Thanks to entertainment tabloid shows and gossip magazines, David Fincher's Panic Room is the kind of film that, at least prior to its theatrical release, is known much more for what happened behind the camera than in front of it.
	www.killermovies.com /p/thepanicroom/reviews (887 words)

	Shadows on the Wall: PANIC ROOM
		After her divorce, Meg (Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Stewart) move in to a swanky Upper West Side mansion.
		On their first night, they're invaded by three thieves (Whitaker, Leto and Yoakam) and quickly hide in the "panic room", a hidden bunker decked out modern security technology.
		What ensues is an intelligent and fierce standoff, as the burglars are after a fortune hidden in the secret room by the previous owners.
	www.users.zetnet.co.uk /rcline/swpanroo.htm (516 words)

	Panic Room DVDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Special DVD features inlcude director commentary, a 2nd disc featuring an in-depth look at the pre-production and production of the film, a tour of the brownstone, multi-angle featurette, lots more.
		Dwight Yoakam, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Jodie Foster, Kristin Stewart - Director: David Fincher Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat and mouse with three villainous thugs (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, and Dwight Yoakam) during a brutal home invasion.
		But the ""Panic Room"" into which they escape, is the very place that holds what the intruders are desperately looking for.
	www.fattvideos.com /DVDs-by/13020/PANIC_ROOM (127 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - Panic Room
		The new place has everything, including a "panic room": a steel-walled chamber with its own ventilation system and communication devices that can be sealed off from the rest of the house.
		Meg and Sarah make it to their sanctuary before the thugs can harm them, but there are problems: The loot the bandits are after is in the panic room with them, the secure phone line hasn't been connected and Sarah, a diabetic, soon needs her insulin, which is perilously out of reach.
		Patrick Bauchau, Jodie Foster, Jared Leto, Ann Magnuson, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=61026-1-1 (191 words)

	BBC - Shropshire - Movies - Panic Room
		His camera prowls up stairs, glides through walls, and, in one amazing computer-assisted tracking shot, follows the villains from inside the building as they inspect the exterior for weak points.
		Foster - who took over the role after Nicole Kidman pulled out, despite being four months pregnant - is endlessly resourceful as the imprisoned heroine, while Forest Whitaker is convincingly conflicted as the most sympathetic of the bad guys.
		Only the film's eagerness to cut to the chase - there's little time to get to know the characters before they are plunged into peril - mars an otherwise hugely accomplished slice of Hitchcockian suspense.
	www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/films/2002/05/panic_room.shtml (354 words)

	Movieman's Guide to the Movies - Panic Room (2002) - 3-Disc Special Edition
		Next to the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions (both Fellowship and Towers), this 3-Disc Panic Room Special Edition was fantastic and very in-depth with how Fincher accomplished some of his ground-breaking shots- one of them dubbed "The Big Shot".
		On the first disc you get three commentary tracks including one from writer David Koepp and special guest William Goldman, another from cast members Jodie Foster, Dwight Yoakam and Forest Whitaker and then one from director David Fincher himself.
		What I liked about each of these tracks was that they rarely crossed over each other- meaning they never really repeat information thereby making each track interesting to listen to.
	www.moviemansguide.com /reviews/DVD/panicroomSE.php (977 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But before mother and daughter are even settled in, three burglars break in, sending claustrophobic Meg and diabetic Sarah to the room they never imagined they'd need.
		Foster is particularly good, as are Yoakam as the loose cannon of the burglars and Whitaker as the group's brains and conscience.
		He might be the only big-budget director we have whose name merits mention alongside those two late masters.
	www.citypaper.com /film/print_review.asp?id=2219 (725 words)

	Harding - Special Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	www.harding.edu /ATHLETICS/BASEBALL/BASEBALLSTATS05/teamspec.htm (1250 words)

	Panic Room Review Movie Review Film Panic Room: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight ...
		Cast: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Ann Manguson, Ian Buchanan, Patrick Bauchau
		The burgarlers consist of Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) a mysterious man who is very dangerous and always has on a mask.
		And there's Junior (Jared Leto- Urban Legend) a mean-hearted young man who has some serious trust issues.
	www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/821.html (769 words)

	zBoneman Movie Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The three villains in question are portrayed by Forest Whitaker (Burnham), Jared Leto (Junior), and Dwight Yoakam (Raoul), and while their motive has been given away by many reviewers and even in some of the advertisements, I wont give it away here.
		For the most part, the three villains are stock with exception of Whitaker who adds much depth and humanity as Burnham.
		He has an intelligence factor sorely lacking in Leto and Yoakam, of course it could be argued that that's the whole point.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/Panic-Room-73.html (925 words)

	Panic Room (2002): Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam - PopMatters Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Cast: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam,
		As per any "don't go in the house"-style thriller, the girls will be assailed by a crew of boys, in this case, a trio of home invaders -- security systems expert Burnham (Forest Whitaker), twitty mastermind Junior (Jared Leto), and ski-masked "muscle" Raoul (Dwight Yoakam).
		So they have a reason to be in the house, they want millions of dollars that are hidden in the titular room.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/panic-room.shtml (1262 words)

	Panic Room
		On mother and daughter's first night there, a trio of burglars bypass the hi-tech security system in search of a treasure hidden somewhere in the home by the reclusive previous owner.
		Led by high-strung Junior (Jared Leto), the villains boil down to stock thriller caricatures: doomed Junior, the murderous psycho Raoul (a typecast Dwight Yoakum), and sympathetic thug with a heart of gold Burnham (Forest Whitaker).
		Because a screenplay recognizes its own shortcomings through self-deprecating dialogue does not solve the problems of said screenplay.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/panicroom.htm (789 words)

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