cathylr I saw this film at the movie theatre when it was just released and never watched it again so it is still clear in my memory. It is amongst my favorite thrillers for its brilliant actors, its dark ambiance and every minute suspense. If you like Jodie Foster and/or David Fincher, it is definitely the film for you as they are delivering here the climax of they talent.

premsag Beautifully Directed movie by David Fincher. Very natural and flawless acting by Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart. Loved the thugs who enter the house too. especially Forest and Jared Leto. Overall a very entertaining and suspenseful movie until the end and hooks you right from the beginning and maintains it until the end.

cmovies-99674 PROS: JODIE FOSTER, little KRISTEN STEWART, and FOREST WHITAKER give one of the most passionate and heartfelt preferences of their lives. You could feel for every character, you really were able to see each character as a person and not just as a figure. This is both the actors and directors accomplishments. The director said what he wanted the characters to be like and the actors took that and transformed the people on paper to people in real life. I was captivated by this in general because it gave that extra bit of tension to the film. I was more scared for each person than I would've been if they just acted fake. The other thing that I noticed and appreciated was the story line. It's common to see films with different settings, different motives, and different characters being put together and having the film called creative, but this film was actually creative. They took one location and used every bit of that location to the fullest. They also didn't have any character that was basic. Everything that was done in the movie was mostly original which gave the film that extra umph the movie needed.CONS: The ending felt a little too concise for my liking. I wished that they found so room to give the movie a slightly more resolved finish.www.chorror.com

DKosty123 You can not fault Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, and the cast in this one. They do a great job of trying to put this over. Unfortunately, either the script writers were on strike, or just plain stupid when they put this thing into writing. I mean, these crooks have to be the most stupid crooks ever. Why would you wait until a place has been sold and moved into to decide to break into a safe that has millions of dollars in it? I mean, I would have been there while it was empty to do this. The script does not really give you enough background on why this circumstance came to be other than talking about some estate, but still little sense is made of this.The script even makes fun of it's flaws late in the film when Foster takes a sledge hammer around and starts knocking out closed circuit cameras, and one of the crooks makes their most intelligent words in the film - "Why the h*ll didn't we think of that?"If you buy the hokey premise of the script then you enjoy the suspense it creates. The trouble is there are so many holes that you have to be a fan of Swiss cheese to really do that. Still, I did enjoy seeing the folks in this cast try to make this into a good film. If it were not for their acting, my rating would be a 1. There is so much wrong with the script that all I can recommend is if you put your brain in park, and just watch it for the cast, you will enjoy it. If you try to make any sense out of the actions the plot generates, you will wind up in a rubber room with a straight jacket to keep you restrained. In fact, that seems to happen to the cast in this one.