P2 (Widescreen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Actors: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  79 reviews
Sales Rank: 9043
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 66104228
UPC: 025195034722
EAN: 0025195034722
ASIN: B0013LL2YS
Theatrical Release Date: November 9, 2007
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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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
Product Description
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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 This film has its moments August 4, 2008
I've parked in major parking garages like this so I know there has to be some concern about one's safety. So, for employees that are of the very few left to go home, this is definitely a dangerous situation since these kinds of parking environments offer a probable means of shelter to the homeless and the desperate.
However, in this film, it's the security guard of the parking garage that is the threat to the last few people leaving the building.
What makes this movie rather unbelievable is how cafefully calculated the sick security guard happens to be. How can a man like this have a job there so long and remained on good terms for so long, then suddenly go on a killing spree in the building that he works for? He was sick in the mind. He had no grasp of reality on how he was thinking that he was doing the right thing to protect the girl. To protect her from her fellow employees (from a mild infraction of a means of sexual harassment) by killing them in front of her and expected her to thank him.
In this film, you get to enjoy some gore. One incident is when the security guard crushes one of her fellow employees up against a cement wall with the car. He was squished to a point when his guts were spilled out, then he backs up and rams him again to crush his head to squish his brains out. There were other means of gore, but that one stands out in my memory the most.
The one thing that does bother me about this film is how RCA (or who ever it is these days who have the rights to Elvis' music) allowed this sick security guard to dance and sing to his Elvis Presley records while he's psychologically torturing his victim. That's creating a distorted image for us to see in the future when we hear Elvis Presley music, especially at Christmas.
This movie moves kinda slow. Very little really happens throughout the film and I'm sure most of the budget went to some of the detailed gory visuals and, of course, paying for the use of Elvis Presley music.
I've seen a lot of low budget horror films. I don't know what compels me to do so because I seldom ever have seen one that I'd watch again. Most of my favorite horror films come from the eighties. And what's more, I enjoy psychological horror more than visual horror. If a film can scare me to death without depending on blood, death, or seeing anyone killed, than that's my idea of creative writing. Because psychological horror stands to be more true to everyday reality. We all have fears about things that can happen, but just hasn't happened yet.
 A movie about.... What? July 27, 2008
P2 is a special movie. I say special because the movie really doesn't have a clear enemy or hero (in this case heroine). The reason I say this is because from the start, Angela is the usual businesswoman: overworked, self-centered, ignores others that don't directly affect her, don't really care about her family enough, and seems to be outright rude to other people. Then we have Thomas an isolated disturbed young man who probably was ignored by everyone but wants to have a friend but somewhere along the line a nut fell lose in his head. Then we have the location of the movie: a locked parking garage in a cold city on Christmas Eve on floor two (P2, the name of the film). In many ways parking garages means everything bad or good in our world: coldness, isolation, and finally death.
The movie sort of plays with your head. It's like one minute you're rooting for Thomas, then the next, Angela. I sort of felt bad for Thomas in some parts, then in others I hated his guts. With Angela, I sort of understood her position: I mean the business world is tough and sometimes you just ignore other people or be rude not because you are a bad person but because you just have so much going on in your plate.
Overall, I liked the movie. To me I really didn't know who was the winner at the end. Perhaps this movie is about our life in the current business world. Maybe we're forgetting the little guys, or the little things that make us people. Check out the film though. Be warned though, it doesn't have a whole lot of guts and gore, but it's still pretty good to satisfy your morbid humor.
Yuletide terror in the garage July 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As usual, Angela (Rachel Nichols) is working late. It's the Christmas season and she's one of the last people to leave. All she wants to do is get in her car, parked in the P2 level of the parking garage, and meet her family for festivities. As expected, her car won't start, and she solicits help from the building security guard Tom (played by that creepy guy from American Beauty). They have no luck with the car, and in no time at all, it's clear he has the building wired with more secret cameras and video surveillance than the Big Brother house. What is it with this guy and bad video footage?
As Angela walks aimlessly throughout the parking garage, the lights go out. Queue the scary appearance of Tom out of nowhere, as he tries the old "win her heart with a rag full of chloroform" technique. When she awakens, Tom has her in a fancy dress (read: tons of cleavage), chained to a table, and sitting in front of an impromptu Christmas dinner prepared via microwave. Yummy!
Interesting mind games ensue as Tom attempts to learn more about Angela as she slowly weaves a web of easily uncovered lies. It becomes quite intense when it's evident that Tom has been keeping track of Angela for quite some time, quoting facts about her family, job, life, and the late hours she keeps.
From there it's the classic cat and mouse game, as Tom chases Jerry, er, Angela throughout the building. With intimate knowledge and access to the building, and absolutely no qualms about ruthlessly murdering someone, Tom has an overwhelming advantage over Angela - not to mention the fact that she's getting absolutely atrocious cell-phone reception from Nextel while in the parking garage. Unfortunately, the movie never really gets out of the plot basement.
Will Angela survive, or will she suffer from Stockholm Syndrome? Will she show full frontal nudity? Will she make ignorant horror movie decisions throughout her ordeal? Will a rottweiler be portrayed as a ruthless killing machine? Will she turn into a revenge-seeking pyromaniac with a nasty leg wound? Sadly, the answer to all but one of those questions was the exact opposite of my hopes, and despite the fact that I was left wanting when the credits rolled, somehow I still enjoyed the ride.
 Nothing says Happy Holidays like getting Trapped in a Parking Garage July 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While P2 was a tense little horror/thriller,
Nothing about it's plain-as-jane plot really stood out to me,
(A woman is held hostage in a paking garage during the christmas season, by a love-struck sociopath.)
that is until...............
I remembered whose name was attached to the screenplay!
None othr than Mr. Alexandre (High Tension & The Hills Have Eyes) Aja.
"Hooray!!!!" My heart yelped when I initially saw this.
"Hoo-freakin-ray!!"
It yelped even louder when I witnessed the positively outstanding, gorey death-scene, about half-way through the flick.
(Thank Aja for that, as it was the films only truely saving-grace!!!)
Identifiable characters hook you in.
Loads of tension keeps you glued to screen.
Great dialogue gives some insight into the characters minds.
And that explosive death scene...well that's the creme-de-la-creme.
Check this flick out, at the very least.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Some guys can be let down the easy way,
while others just need a sharp object jammed in their eye.
Effective Little Thriller July 16, 2008
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.
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