"The Panic Room" takes off like a rocket ship but then tends to fall apart in the middle with too many props that are only there for the sake of the story and 3 references to other Hollywood movies that are 3 references too many. Forest Whitaker as always is great and Jodie Foster gives a competent performance. This is the only David Fincher film I've seen that I didn't absolutely hate with a passion but its still not the great film it could have been.