Safe Room

A woman and her autistic son are locked into a safe room to avoid bad guys who were seen by the boy committing a crime through a window. I don't know if this is more of a ripoff of the movie Panic Room, or Rear Window (sorry Hitch, I don't make the bad movies, I just report and opine on them) let's just call it a poor hodgepodge of both. Well the plot of the movie is almost identical to Panic Room, this is a made for TV movie which is, in my opinion, at best watchable. I see other reviews here in and in other places rating is a 9 or 10 out of 10. Really? So if Forrest Gump, Dances With Wolves, Goodwill Hunting and Forrest Gump are 10 out of 10, you're calling this a nine? Ugh. I wish people would take more time to consider what the competition is before they rate a movie like this a 10 out of 10. But I guess that's somebody else's opinion. Meanwhile my laptop almost lit up into flames while I submitted entry after entry after entry of mistakes, goofs and anachronisms; let's just call it several of each. I was actually not dissatisfied with the boys capture of that character and what he did with it on screen, but really, movies of this type have to condense the plot down so much to make whatever time they need to make that certain things aren't paid attention to and errors are made. While this is imo a bad copycat of Panic Room, so many things could have done been done to make it their own & they simply didn't. The result is, painfully and almost shamefully, a close copy. If there's nothing else to watch and you folded all your socks and you've already ran toothpicks under your fingernails, then it's what I call watchable but don't blame me, I warned you.

Seriously this is just a horrible rip off of the movie Panic Room and Fear.

I guess since the main character is "diverse" it ticks off the right boxes to be made today but Ugh. Even the name screams wokeness "Safe Space".

Well how do I start.

I didn't expect much as it's a Lifetime movie but hey.

Terrible acting especially by the mum. She goes through each scene huffing and puffing and rolling her eyes. Rubbish.

Creepy,patronising neighbour.

Storyline is nonsense as well. Why is the lead filming into people's houses. Creepy. He speaks to his mum ok. Seed a murder then falls asleep. Stupid.

So I'm very picky when it comes to lifetime movies. There are indeed a few slamdunks such as "Amanda Knox" (with Hayden Panettiere) , "Baby Sellers" (with Kristie Alley), "Beaches" (the remake with Idina Menzel, and Nia Long), "A Deadly Adoption" (with Will Ferrell, and Kristen Wiig) and "Stalkers" with Drea De Matteo (who is in this movie) , Mena Suvari, and Jodi Lynn O'Keefe.

"Safe Room" aka "Safe Space" is about a widowed mother with a son that has autism. Her autistic son accidentally recorded a murder on a video camera and the intruders try to do whatever it takes to retrieve the evidence.

The villains of this movie are played by Mackenzie Astin, and Drea De Matteo. This movie gave me goosebumps. "Safe Room" has vibes of the movies "Rear Window" and "Panic Room". Boris Kodjoe nails he is directorial debut in this lifetime movie.

Drea De Matteo is a psychopath in this movie and this is a huge departure for her playing battered women, and victims of a crime! I hope to see her play more villains in her career. This is the best lifetime movie I've seen in a long time!

Pretty much do not waste your time, or money watching this. I'm not sure how they managed to find investors to bank roll this absolute waste of digitized celluloid. Terrible.