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It's Christmas
eve and Angela is looking forward to
spending the night together with her family.
Unfortunately she has to work late and to make things
even worse, her car won't start. It seems as if this
is going to be one miserable Christmas, and to top it
all off, she's trapped inside the parking garage with a
psychotic security guard.
Well this was mediocre. P2 has been receiving everything
from the worst reviews possible to glowing reviews and
I found myself stuck somewhere in the middle for most
of the time. That was until the awful ending. It seemed
as if Mr. Aja knew that this wasn't going to be one of
his better works and let Franck Khalfoun write the
rest of the story and direct the film. Good move Aja
but you should have removed your name from this flick.
An entire movie set in a parking garage - did anyone
really expect it to be good? P2 is predictable, silly,
ludicrous and overall rather boring to be honest with
you. Wes Bentley has got to be one of the worst
villains either, especially since his character just
wants to help Angela (played by the awful Rachel Nichols
who I never ever want to see in a horror flick again
after this. She didn't even know how to scream
convincingly, no wonder she's only gotten supporting
roles before - she clearly can't handle a starring one).
The story? Oh I'm sorry I didn't know there was one
but I'll do the best I can to milk this cow dry. Meet
Angela, a workaholic who's on her way home to meet
her family since it's Christmas eve. unfortunately
her BMW won't start (crappy car, I borrowed my friends
BMW this week and I've had to call a toe-truck twice!
Seriously!) and all the doors are locked so she can't
get out. Introducing Tom, a lonely security guard who
has a secret crush on Angela. Tom kidnaps Angela and
forces her to spend Christmas eve with him. Oh the
terror. For the rest of the film Angela tries in vain
to escape, will she eventually succeed? And perhaps
more importantly, will anyone stay in the theatre long
enough to find out?
P2 goes exactly where you expect it to go and borrows
heavily from several horror flicks such as The Descent
and the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But it's
not all bad. Occasionally they actually managed to
make the movie somewhat suspenseful, and there is some
potential to be found in here. Well, a glimpse of
potential at least. Unfortunately the acting, the
characters, the story... well, just about everything
was pretty poor. This movie just reeked DTV and I don't
think that Summit Entertainment did a smart move
putting this out in theatres. In fact, it had one of
the worst average per screen for a wide release ever.
Anyhoo, in the end, P2 is a forgettable movie which is
mediocre at best. I can't say that I'm disappointed
because I knew that it wouldn't be my cup of tea from
seeing the trailers. A tame and predictable horror thriller
which we've seen many times before. Expect this to show
up on DVD very soon as it'll be out of the theatres in
less than four weeks, mark my words.
Some guts, a smashed body and some more which I don't
want to reveal as it would spoil it for you.
Christmas music. Groundbreaking.
Nice try of doing something different, if only they
hadn't ripped off countless of horror flicks along the
way and screwed up just about everything else while
they were at it as well. P2 is a mediocre horror thriller
at best. Watchable but just barely, not worth checking
out in the theatres. This will disappear as quickly as
it came (heck I didn't even see any TV-Spots for it).
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