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Title: P2 (Widescreen Edition) (2008) |
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Review of P2 (Widescreen Edition)
- It's Christmas Eve, when even the most voracious corporate climbers generally head home by dinner time. But not ANGELA (Rachael Nichols). She's the last one left at the office, determined to close one more deal before the holiday. The long hours she keeps will have an impact, but not the kind she's been hoping for.
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- Stalker in a parking garage. You've got to give the makers of P2 credit: They've tapped a universal source of anxiety and stretched it out into a feature-length film. Underneath a Manhattan skyscraper, chic businesswoman Angela (Rachel Nichols) is knocking off for the Christmas holiday. Everybody else has cleared out of the garage--everybody but freaky-friendly attendant Tom (Wes Bentley), and his little dog too. Before long, Tom makes it clear that he'd like to have Angela for holiday dinner, whatever that might mean. Our heroine must summon all her resources, and the challenge of a low-cut dinner gown, to fight back. P2 (no, it's not the sequel to P) at least allows Angela a measure of common sense, as she actually thinks of some logical ways to fight back, and director Franck Khalfoun (working from an idea by Haute Tension guys Alexandre Aja and Gregory Levasseur) does indeed get the most out of the parking garage location. But the movie's at a loss to make these two characters interesting in any way, even at the Coyote vs. Roadrunner level. Tom's little quirks, like miming a dance to Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas," feel like a desperate attempt to add flavor to an otherwise standard-issue creepo. Bentley (best known for American Beauty) does have the face of an obsessive, and Nichols has the face (and did we mention the cleavage?) of a movie star, so they're not hard to believe. But most of the time this movie is stuck on the wrong floor. --Robert Horton
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Comments for P2 (Widescreen Edition)
- Posted on 2008-07-16
Effective Little Thriller
The parking garage is a great setting for this cat and mouse stalker film. It has a few truly creepy moments and some severe bloodletting as well. Nichols reminds me of a younger Briget Fonda here. Overall, pretty good for what it is.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2008-07-13
Just Pull the Fire Alarm!
It's Christmas Eve and Angela (Rachel Nichols) is the last to leave the office. She heads over to the deserted underground parking garage and her car fails to start. Thomas, the seemingly friendly, and fresh-faced, security guard, offers to help. Only Thomas isn't friendly, he is a psychopath. Next thing you know, Angela is knocked out, tied up in the office and dressed only in a slip.
Watching her walk through a deserted underground parking lot in New York City, the producers of "P2" play upon a fear many of us have felt when walking late at night in secluded areas like a parking lot or subway station. The director uses the set well, using shadows to instill fear and anxiety in the viewer. The problem with "P2" is that it is predictable. You know the car is going to break down, you know the cell phone will no longer work, you know the police will show up (and not find anything), and you know how it will end.
Rachel Nichols and Wes Bentley try hard to make something of this predictable script, and, although there are some pretty good gore scenes in the film, in the end, there really isn't much suspense. I can think of many ways to escape a locked underground parking garage: pull the fire alarm, yell at people walking on the street (this is supposed to be New York City, after all), use the office to call your mother after 911 puts you on hold, etc.
On a positive note, Rachel Nichols and her cleavage look great as she spends the majority of the movie running around in a wet slip.....
Score: 3 - Posted on 2008-07-03
P2: A New Level of Crap
It's not the worst attempt at a horror movie I've ever seen but save for the interesting choice of location, it's just about as cliche ridden as any of the many stalker vs. prey flicks out there.
It starts out well enough and it doesn't take too long to get into the meat of the film but the somewhat novel idea of a young woman trapped in an underground parking lot with a psychotic security guard (on Christmas Eve no less!) gets a little old kind of fast. I think that the film overall would've worked better as a short as it feels like they just ran out of ideas halfway through. There's one kill in the film that is pretty gory but it happens early on and nothing else in the film reaches that level of gruesomeness. Some decent jump scares are present but nothing spectacular. All the cliches of the horror genre are here in their glory (dumb choices by the main character, bursting cleavage, the eventual retaliation scene, blood and guts, etc.) and like I said, this movie's main draw is its huge parking lot set, which admittedly is pretty creepy and could've been used to greater effect in a shorter film. Ah well, to be positive, I only said "God, please end already" about..... twice.
The DVD has crisp picture and servicable surround sound. The featurettes provide a little bit of background info on the film but aren't particularly interesting. There is also a commentary track by the filmmakers. It's not a bad presentation for the film but it's just that I really wasn't too crazy about the film to begin with. You could find better horror films than this out there that deliver the goods.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2008-07-01
I actually bought this
This movie would have made a really good short. I mean cmon he should have killed her in the first five minutes and made us all feel good. This girl is a total you know what and a total waste of screen time. Very few movies do I root for the killer but this one I do. The only other movie that comes to mind like that is Captivity. Kill them in the first five minutes and lets watch something else. I dont understand how this could be labeled as a horror, slasher movie. Ive seen more violence and dread in a Roadrunner cartoon.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-06-04
M2 (Me Too)
M2, I would probably would have done the same thing as the security guard, the girl is so beautiful, of course, would not take it to the extreme, this is a masterpiece thriller worth watching more than once!
Score: 4