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.
July 1, 2008M2, 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!
June 4, 2008 |  | Oh look! A Jodie Foster thriller without Jodie Foster! |  |
Lone lady in a big office building on Christmas Eve gets locked in by a lunatic security guard and goes through a nightmarish night of repeat attempts to escape.
Stylishly better than it sounds, the role smacks of a script that Jodie Foster would've turned down, putting Rachel Nichols dead-on to make a mark as a film chick worthy of earning cult status. And let's face it: it's LIPSTICK and a dozen other girl-in-a-torn-slip-and-a-psycho films rolled into one: not appealing from the get-go but smarter than it was sold as.
Suddenly there's a new screen heroine worth the price of a theater admission ticket, or the purchase of a DVD. Rachel Nichols has class and guts and director Franck Khalfoun has talent: they can, and ought to, think a sequel (cripes, did I say that?). Shudderingly spot-on nutcase Wes Bentley plays the nut with the keys and the dog. He's an excellent creepy security guard: the kind you'd pass every day and dismiss as a loser. The office gal does, and he, of course, is going to prove that he's not to be dismissed... for an hour and a half.
Both creepy in content as well as in delivery, this is ensemble excellence at work: and from the DVD extras, it shows how a small team can craft a killer (pun, sorry) flick with smart, savvy direction, a couple of dedicated actors and a well-choreographed blend of camera excellence and tight storyboarding.
Well photographed as in "Yeah, we know it's crap, but we're making a great piece of crap" cinematography. Well made small film that looks hugely budgeted because all of the talent hits the screen like the guts of a torture victim. Kudos and look forward to checking out more by all of these people.
May 27, 2008 | | Destined for legendary status... | |
What makes this film entertaining to a horror fan is that an ordinary setting--a parking garage--is turned into an extraordinary nightmare. OK, the whacked out security guard (Wes Bentley) obsessed with an office worker (the fantastic Rachel Nichols) won't be ranked with such baddies as Michael Meyers or Jason Voorhees. But that's the point--he's just a regular guy with a very twisted mind, the kind of evil that could be lurking anywhere. In the tradition of Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis, the heroine must use her wits and determination to survive. In contrast to some of the other viewers, I found myself on the edge of my seat, rooting for and identifying with Nichols' character the whole way. For me, some scenes do stick in the mind, and this flick does for Elvis' "Blue Christmas" what David Lynch did for "Blue Velvet". Highly recommended.
May 27, 2008| | | A blue Christmas indeed.... | |
P-2 is without a doubt one of the greatest thrillers you've never seen. While it reeks of seen it before several times mentality, P-2 provides an incredible sense of dread and suspense that is rare in a movie of its' caliber. Our main characters Rachel Nichols and Wes Bentley create a film that is both believable and scary beyond belief. The film avoids the pitfalls of countless other creep-fests such as the lady in distress walking down dark corridors aimlessly shouting "hello?". Instead, Nichols' character makes logical choices and decisions that ultimately are the right ones in every situation she is forced to endure. Wes Bentley effectively exudes pathological charm bordering on excessive and and insanity teetering on over the top, yet never going too far over the edge (except one scene). There is a crush-a-guy-against-the-wall-with-a-moving-vehicle scene that we've seen done farcically in Bad Dreams and Creepshow 2's hitchhiker storyline, but in P-2 it is startlingly realistic and is a shocking view on the dangerousness of Wes's character Thomas's mind. His belief that he is helping Rachel's Angela by ridding the world of a touchy feely married jerk who at work gropes women he cant ever have is frightening at the outset and terrifying in the extreme. P-2 works best though when Rachel Nichol's gives her character Angela resolve to overcome everything that Wes's Thomas can throw her way. P-2's premise feeds off many people's existing fear of dark parking garages and being locked into a place with no escape after hours; a far more plausible scenario than a kidnapper taking his prey into an underground fortress as seen in the film Captivity. The only flaw is in the movie's slightly over-done climactic scene. However, with P-2 providing such a realistic take on psycho stalker films, walking to work seems to be a better idea now more than ever before. 4.75 stars
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