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Review: David Fincher just doesn't seem comfortable (or should that be capable of?) making two good films in a row. For every Seven and Fight Club we've had an Alien 3 and The Game. Panic Room slots comfortably into the latter bracket - it's just Fincher-by-numbers, the Big Man treading water whilst he waits for a half-decent script to drop in his letterbox. Take one waifer-thin premise, flesh it out with a few decent performances (and, courtesy of Jared Leto, one of the worst this reviewer has seen in a long time) and some flashy editing, and what do you get? On this evidence, just another disposable popcorn flick. Coming from such an obvious talent, that's pretty sloppy work indeed.
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