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Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and handsome Stephen Dorff deserve much better than this awful piece of celluloid Hell which criminally wastes their talents, The story follows 'The Tilson Family' led by Quaid and Stone (which must be one of their worst movies) and children - Kristen 'Panic Room' Stewart and Newcomer Ryan Wilson who move from The Big City to a creepy old Mansion in the middle of nowhere (don't they always!)and find themselves very unwelcome by the locals, especially by Dale Massie- underrated actor Stephen Dorff who wildly overacts to jack Nicholson proportions
The movie moves at a snail's pace from scene to scene although very little happens, the story is entirely predictable from start to finish, you know Dorff's a crazy nutjob from his first scene and you just wait endlessly for the tedious climax.
all in all a very disappointing movie that British Director Mike Figgis should be ashamed of, No scares, No Thrills, No decent story, No whodunit, just a pointless waste of money, film and time. But how it made $21 million in cinema's is anybody's guess perhaps filmgoers, like myself were misled by the interesting sounding title.
My Rating *1/2 out of ***** or 3/10
Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone and handsome Stephen Dorff deserve much better than this awful piece of celluloid Hell which criminally wastes their talents, The story follows 'The Tilson Family' led by Quaid and Stone (which must be one of their worst movies) and children - Kristen 'Panic Room' Stewart and Newcomer Ryan Wilson who move from The Big City to a creepy old Mansion in the middle of nowhere (don't they always!)and find themselves very unwelcome by the locals, especially by Dale Massie- underrated actor Stephen Dorff who wildly overacts to jack Nicholson proportions
The movie moves at a snail's pace from scene to scene although very little happens, the story is entirely predictable from start to finish, you know Dorff's a crazy nutjob from his first scene and you just wait endlessly for the tedious climax.
all in all a very disappointing movie that British Director Mike Figgis should be ashamed of, No scares, No Thrills, No decent story, No whodunit, just a pointless waste of money, film and time. But how it made $21 million in cinema's is anybody's guess perhaps filmgoers, like myself were misled by the interesting sounding title.
My Rating *1/2 out of ***** or 3/10