When surrounded by four concrete walls and trapped inside by three robbers, there?s nothing to do but panic.

In the movie “Panic Room,” Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) moves into a three-story posh home in which a millionaire had once lived in, leaving his fortune inside his safe room.

The newly divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) move into a New York home fully equipped with surveillance monitors that cover every corner of the house.

They are unaware of how soon they will be using the panic room.

Meg stays up trying to figure out the security system while drinking up to a goblet of wine. She finally calls it quits and gets into bed.

But when three men stage a seamless late night break-in, the game of cat and mouse begins. However, the intruders didn?t realize that people had moved into the house. Burnham (Forest Whitaker) is the overly mechanical and good-guy-gone-bad, while Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and the blabbermouth Junior (Jared Leto) try to figure things out.

While arguing with each other, Meg hears them and gets herself and her daughter to the safe room. What the intruders really want is in the room and they will stop at nothing to get inside.

Director David Fincher does a great job of taking the audience for an intense roller coaster ride up and down the three flights of stairs, with Meg?s slow-motion dashes to and from the panic room. The “Panic Room” is a supposed to be a place to hide out from intruders; however, Fincher takes the helpless and defenseless Meg and converts the entire house into a panic room for the intruders themselves.

I found myself drawn into the movie right away and laughed about the intruders? antics, reminding me of “Home Alone.” Foster does an excellent job as a mother of a diabetic tomboy, while Whitaker shows his heart-of-gold as a smart bad guy.

The movie succeeds with lavish cinematography. It?s a solid thriller that brings in unexpected, aggravating turns. Though the end needed more punch, it?s still a good movie.