Delight
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Sam Panico
Created by the trio of Franck Khalfoun, Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur - who also worked together on the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes - P2 is about working through the holidays, struggling for meaning and losing yourself in your work identity. It's also about a lone girl trying to survive being kidnapped in the underground garage that gives the movie its title.Angela Bridges (Rachel Nichols, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) is just trying to get through her last day of work before the holidays. She deals with her boss as he apologizes for sexually harassing her and finds that she's the last to leave. This seems like a common occurrence, as every security guard knows her by name. Working in advertising, I can relate.Finally getting to her car - parking on P2 - she learns that it won't start. A security guard named Thomas (Wes Bentley, American Beauty) tries to help her, then awkwardly asks her to join him for the holidays. She tells him that she's on her way to a family party and calls for a cab, but then learns that she's locked in. Then the lights go out.Wandering the dark parking lot, Angela is chloroformed and is taken to Thomas' office. He's changed her into a white dress and chained her to a table. We can see that he's been watching her via the building's cameras and he tells her that he loves her, despite her many sins. He grills her about having a fiancee, which he learns in a lie. Saying that she's a great liar, he makes her call her family and cancel her Christmas party visit so that no one will look for her. She tries to escape by stabbing him, but his dog keeps her in the room and he takes control again.Thomas takes Angela to another level of the garage where he has the boss who harassed her, Jim, tied to a chair. He's been watching the footage of him going after her and says that she can kill him to show that she's sorry for her sins. Thomas claims that he's seen the man try to rape many women in the building, so he beats him with a flashlight, then rams him into a wall with his car, killing him in a geyser of gore. However, Angela is able to run away, screaming at the wailing sirens outside that she needs help.Thomas hides the body while Angela is able to get her hands - which have been handcuffed - in front of her body, then calls 911. She makes it to an elevator with Thomas in pursuit and gets through to an operator - who we soon learn is Thomas, as he floods the elevator with a fire hose, revealing the body of another security guard.As Angela hides, Thomas plays "Blue Christmas" and tries to find her on the security cameras. But Angela is using an axe to destroy them, one by one, as she makes her way to his office. When she arrives, she sees a video of Thomas having sex with her while she was chloroformed. She attacks the TV with the axe and then fights him, but loses and is locked in the trunk of a car.Two officers come to investigate the call she made in the elevator, but Thomas tells them that everything is fine. After they do a quick search, they leave, just in time for her to escape the trunk and Thomas to let his dog loose on her. She kills it but suffers plenty of damage to her leg. As she escapes in a car, Thomas sideswipes her. They play chicken and she wins, but flips the car. Thomas opens the door and looks at her body, but it's all a trick - she stabs him in the eye and handcuffs him to the car.He begins to plead for his life before finally breaking down and calling her a cunt. She responds by using his taser to set the car on fire, which sets off the sprinklers and calls the fire department.Alone, bloodied and hurt, Angela walks out alone into the cold Christmas morning - a survivor.Your enjoyment of this film depends on how much you like modern horror. It's fine - Nichols is a strong lead and carries the film well. But there wasn't much to keep me interested in what would happen next.
Leofwine_draca
P2 is another low budget horror movie that turns out to have wasted the time of the viewer once you finish watching. Unfortunately by that point you've already wasted an hour and a half of your life on it, so consider this review a warning.It's an essential two-hander about a typical businesswoman played by Rachel Nichols (the CONAN THE BARBARIAN remake) who finds herself locked in an underground car park at Christmas time with a crazed security guard (American BEAUTY's Wes Bentley). What follows is a predictable and very tired cat and mouse game between the two of them, one that seems to go on endlessly and repetitively until there's a final dramatic conclusion of sorts.P2 singularly manages to avoid being frightening at any point, which may be because Bentley is channelling his American BEAUTY character and doesn't seem scary at any point - sad, yes, but a decent villain, no. Nichols gets zero character development and the director seems more interested in shooting her at chest height than anything else. In desperation, a couple of extreme gore scenes are thrown into the mix to spice things up, but they don't do anything in a film that goes nowhere.
Terryfan
This was the first Rachel Nichols I recall seeing.While it had a chance it just wasn't what I had hoped for granted I haven't seen this movie in years the first time I saw it was enough to not to give it another watch.The movie was very dark and graphic from what I recall and it makes you wonder what were they thinking?Not saying Rachel Nichols is a terrible actress it just I'm sure she did it to get noticed but let's be honest she could have pick better roles but again some actresses have to play these roles.The movie itself just offer little to nothing that can really keep your interest.Again I'm going on memory from seeing the film.Other than Rachel Nichols' performance I can't see anything less to make this film worth while.All together only check it out if nothing else on otherwise it's a pass.I give P2 an 4 out of 10
SnoopyStyle
Angela (Rachel Nichols) is a hard working businesswoman. It's Christmas Eve and she's one of the last to leave the building. Her car doesn't start and the only person there is security guard Thomas (Wes Bentley). She's in a rush to go to her sister's party. The taxi cab comes but she discovers all the doors locked. The lights go out and the building is shut down.This is a very strip down horror story. The setting is a simple non-descript business building and underground parking lot. The movie is mostly just two actors. Nichols is a reasonable actress whose biggest asset in this movie is her cleavage. Bentley is a creepy nerd-like character but he's not scary enough. There is some value to this paint-by-number strip down horror, but in the end, the value isn't all that great.
