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Waste of time

Just perfect...

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This movie never gets going. William Macy does his usually stuttery blank delivery of script lines. None of the characters give you anything to care about. The kid's annoyingly precocious and whoever wrote the script obviously had none. Neve Campbell provides some tepid salacious moments (ooh, girl on girl, she's bisexual, isn't that hot). Donald Sutherland hams it up but essentially has nothing to say, and repeats it. Nothing happens that isn't telegraphed clearly. A waste of time. HBO is completely capable of producing excellent flicks (the film on the Scarsdale diet doctor is one), but this is a stinker. Waste of several good actors. Plus, there are very few therapists who put patients in the same waiting room, and very few who strike up conversations while there.

Panic was hard to get my hands on. I looked for it everywhere, couldn't find it. You may have the same problem, but I must say, I liked it a lot, especially the second act. It has nice pace, running-time; the direction was completely on-spot.I was a little underwhelmed by Donald Sutherland. After the way he was described , I expected a Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. He was still very, very good, though. William H. Macy He was fantastic. Better than Sutherland, IMO. But Neve Campbell was brilliant, she just stole every scene she was in.The writing was first rate for most of the times, but had some bumps along the way. They should've included Campbell's character more in the script. Other than that, it's a pretty solid film; 8.

In his first go as a Hollywood director, Henry Brommell whips an enthralling yarn that is all of penetrating relatable marital issues with melancholic authenticity, and lacing such with an equally absorbing subplot of a father-son hit-man business. The film is directed astutely and consists of a wonderfully put together cast as well as a swift, family-conscious screenplay (also by Brommell) that brings life to an otherwise fatigued genre. As a bonus, 'Panic' delivers subtle, acerbic humor—an unexpected, undeniably charming, and very welcome surprise—through its bumbling, unsure-of-himself, low-key star, whose ever-cool state is enticing, especially given his line of work.The forever-great William H. Macy again captures our hearts as Alex, a unhappy, torn, middle-aged husband and father who finds solace in the most dubious of persons: a young, attractive, equally-messed-up 23-year-old named Sarah (Neve Campbell), whom he meets in the waiting-room at a psychologist's office, where he awaits the therapy of Dr. Josh Parks (John Ritter) to discuss his growing eagerness to quit the family business that his father (Donald Sutherland) built. Alex, whose lust to lead a new life is obstructed by the fear of disappointing his dictating father, strikes an unwise fancy for Sarah, which ultimately leads him to understand the essence and irrefutable responsibility of being a husband to his wife and, more importantly to him, a good father to his six-year-old son, Sammy (played enthusiastically by the endearing David Dorfman).Henry Brommell's brilliant 'Panic' is something of a rarity in Hollywood seldom seen (with the exception of 2002's 'Road to Perdition') since its conception in 2000—it weaves two conflicting genres (organized-crime, family drama) into a fascinating, warm hunk of movie-viewing that is evenly strong in either direction—and it's one that will maintain its exceptional, infrequent caliber and gleaming sincerity for ages to come.

Undeveloped/unbelievable story line,(by the time I sort of figured out where it was going, I no longer cared) bad casting.(come on... William Macy as a hit man???) bad directing,(have you ever seen Tracey Ullman perform SO badly?)(Was I supposed to care what happened to the unethical incompetent, uncaring John Ritter character?) bad script...( Really, I'm not looking for a formula script but this was really awful) the only Really good thing in it was the kid. Ten lines? It's not OK if your comment is less than ten lines? COme on-- whose rules are those? Why can't I say what I have to say in less than 10 lines??? Isn't that kind of arbitrary? Why isn't it OK to have less than 10 lines of comment?