History Film / PanicRoom

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, Raoul and Junior are dead and Burnham is arrested. To add insult to injury, as he's being apprehended, he is ordered to open his hands, and that means he must lets go of the bearer bonds, which blow away in the storm.]]

* TheCameo: Creator/NicoleKidman as Stephen's new woman, who answers the phone when Meg calls for help; Kidman was originally cast as Meg but had to withdraw from production after a knee injury filming ''Film/MoulinRouge''.
-->'''Meg''': Put him on the phone, bitch!\\

* LampshadeHanging: When Meg [[spoiler: smashes all the cameras in the house, leaving the burglars blind in the panic room]], Raoul says what's been on the audience's mind for the past hour:
-->'''Raoul''': Why didn't ''we'' think of that?

* SpannerInTheWorks: One of the main reasons why this film even started. Junior miscalculated when the house would be sold resulted in Meg and Sarah moving in at the exact night the robbery was going to take place, which ends up with the women locked in the panic room... where the money turns out to be.

* TheCameo: Nicole Kidman as Stephen's new woman, who answers the phone when Meg calls for help; Kidman was originally cast as Meg but had to withdraw from production after a knee injury filming ''Film/MoulinRouge''.

* DropTheHammer: Meg uses a sledgehammer on Raoul [[spoiler:(his attempt to do the same fails).]] Earlier, she uses it to [[spoiler:break the security cameras.]]

** When the robbers stop watching the panic room door for the second time, Meg could have gone outside, dialed the police on the cell phone, and whispered. Neither Meg nor the robbers realize this.

** When the robbers stop watching the panic room door for the second time, Meg could have gone outside, dialed the police, and whispered. Neither Meg nor the robbers realize this.

-->'''Burnham:''' This is what I do; if some idiot with a sledgehammer could break in do you really think I'd still have a job?

-->*Junior smashes a mirror in frustation*\\

** Later, Burnham has such a reaction when he can hear [[spoiler:Meg trying to ignite the gas.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Meg's decision to temporarily leave the panic room to get her cell phone from under her bed would have gone smoothly...had she not decided to [[WithCatLikeTread run out like a bat out of hell]] and clumsily reach for her phone in a [[JustForPun panic]]. [[spoiler: She inadvertently knocks over a bed lamp and alerts the burglars, giving them just enough time to interfere with Meg and Sarah's plan to call for help at the last second]].

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never explained exactly why [[spoiler: Raoul brought a gun to the job in the first place. It clearly shows his violent inclinations. However, given the house was supposed to be empty, it seems to imply he may have been planning to use it to rob his fellow burglars of their shares all along. Then again, there is the old adage that having a gun and not needing it is better than needing a gun and not having it. Raoul was probably anticipating a witness or police officer catching them in the act.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never explained exactly why [[spoiler: Raoul brought a gun to the job in the first place. It clearly shows his violent inclinations. However, given the house was supposed to be empty, it seems to imply he may have been planning to use it to rob his fellow burglars of their shares all along.]]

* MsFanservice: Meg spends most of the movie in a low-cut halter top.

* {{Fingore}}: Raoul loses at least two of his fingers and most likely broke the rest of them when the panic room door slams shut on them, after he had his hand positioned out of range of the door sensors. Once the loot is scored, we see Raoul pick them up while leaving the panic room.

---> '''Sarah:''' Oh my God.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never explained exactly why [[spoiler: Raoul brought a gun to the job in the first place. It clearly shows his violent inclinations. However, given the house was supposed to be empty, was he planning to use it to murder or rob his fellow burglars so he could take their shares all along?]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: {{Downplayed}}. While it’s never stated outright that Sarah has Diabetes, there are enough context clues to make it easy to figure out if you know what it is.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Subverted. While it’s never stated outright that Sarah has Diabetes, there are enough context clues to make it easy to figure out if you know what it is.