It’s Christmas Eve. Angela Bridges (Rachel Nichols), an ambitious young executive, works late before she leaves for her family’s holiday party. When she gets down to the parking garage, she discovers that her car won't start. The garage is deserted and her cell phone doesn't get a signal underground. When Thomas (Wes Bentley), a friendly security guard, comes along and offers to help, Angela nervously accepts his gesture of good will. Soon after a failed attempt to start her car, he invites her to stay and share a small Christmas dinner he's preparing in the parking office, but she laughs it off. Angela doesn’t realize this is no laughing matter – Thomas has been watching her closely...for months. His dinner invitation is not optional. If Angela wants to live to see Christmas morning, she must find a way to escape from level P2 of the parking garage. This is the backdrop for Summit Entertainment’s new thriller P2, a suspenseful nail-biter exploring the fears of being trapped in a dark place and stalked by an obsessed voyeur. In the vein of suspenseful cat-and-mouse thrillers such as Wait Until Dark, P2 takes the fear of the underground to a whole new level.
 

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Bo Lane

10

I drove on up to Blockbuster, spent way too much money and way too much time rummaging through the already low supply of useless films; films that wait everso patiently for idiots, like myself, to flush their hard-earned dollars on. Needless to say - I get home - I watch the movie - then I force myself to stay up way past my bedtime and write this pointless review about a movie that no one should never, ever waste their time seeing. Never. Ever. Did I mention never? Just checking. Enough on the easy commentary - allow me to Jackie-Chan this film that supposedly brings in “a new level a fear” - more like a new level a tears; tears from the pain by which I caused myself by running to my desk and jamming a pencil in my eye so I wouldn’t have to subject myself any longer to the annoying, B-rated, poor character development, stupid, non-horroristic crap-ooshki that calls itself a film. The Plot Summary: The concept for P2 is incredibly light. Rachel Nichols plays Angela, an overworked businesswoman who gets trapped in an underground parking garage on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately for Angela, the parking attendant on duty, Thomas (Wes Bentley), is quite psychotic and rather obsessed with her. In short order Thomas kidnaps Angela, leaving the remainder of the movie’s running time for Angela’s desperate attempts to escape. (Courtesy www.holly-woods.blogspot.com) Yup. That’s about it. Little Angie spends 75% of the movie running around in circles, trying to escape the “psychotic” and “obsessed” Tommy the Terrible Attendant. Fortunately for Angie, Tommy the Terrible is a bad actor with an equally un-scary demeanor. Any potential the movie had was enormously ruined when Thomas decided to use his car to ram Jim (who once attempted to get physical with Angela after having too much to drink at an office Christmas party) into a wall of the garage. Like I said, this could’ve had some potentially good visual effects - instead we get to see Jim’s head explode and the grape juice - I mean, blood - splatter all over the windshield. Instead of being paralyzed by the fear which would normally be associated with seeing a man’s head explode - like an odd-shaped watermelon - in front of your eyes, Angie manages to escape. Hmm. Lots of running. Lots of bad acting. And lots of wasted anticipation. Needless to say, the only thing this movie has going for it, in my opinion, is that it now moves from the “New Release” section to the lonesome “Isle of the Castaways” - allowing all people, who were fortunate enough not to waste their precious time, to walk right past it on their way to the checkout counter. Sorry P2. You get two thumbs down. And if I had four thumb – yeah you guessed it.

Ash

80

I really don't know what the guy overhead is saying...this movie was great! As told above P2 is the story of young business woman who is forcibly locked in a parking garage over the holiday season. First off let me say that the time of year contrasted perfectly with the evil dank tunnels where Angela is kept...love the dark vision of the film and how both actors made it work beyond what I'd expected. Second, I have to say that both Wes and Rachael are perfect opposites and are truly believeably frightening! Theres not a moment in the film where you know EXACTLY what will happen mostly because of the diversity of script and the portrayal of the characters! Third, I loved the script! It made Angela so smart unlike any other movie out there that normally makes the female characters overpreoccupied with sex when in this one Angela is a complete survivor!! The differing of the characters moods is what really made the film scary for you  couldn't expect what was really going to happen. Now there were only three things I found that just took the movie down the ladder back into every other horror movie. One, was though they did a great job of creating loads of tension it really just didn't culminate in the ending! Two, the cops were completely stupid!!! First they don't see Angela's broken cell phone down on the ground and then when she's right behind them screaming her head off and they don't even turn around! And three, there was no real hate established for Tom i.e. the killer...you did hate him but you never in the whole world wanted him to be killed! Even when his vicious man-eating dog is killed you feel sorry for him cause that's the only thing he really had to talk to when he was down in the parking garage all alone! Like on The Mist, everyone HATED that that damn religious woman and when she finally gets hers you can't help but cheer! We just didn't have that for Tom , basically because he was a nice guy just a little (lot!!!) messed up! The movie really surprised me and is definately worth a rent or a buy! I don't know what the crackhead above is talking about! Angela is as smart a main character that I've seen in a long time and Tom can be as creepy as any other killer with a mask, except his mask is his kindness!

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