P2 (2007)

- written August 11th, 2010

Summary: On Christmas Eve, workaholic Angela works until late night. When she is ready to drive to her family's Christmas party, her car does not start and she calls a cab. However, she is unable to leave the building, since all the exits are locked, and she returns to the garage, where she is unexpectedly attacked by a psychopath, beginning her night of horror trapped in the garage!           Overall: It’s amusing to me but I received tons of merchandise for the promotion of the film but then didn’t catch the film for 3 years. Made me feel like I was promoting a film hat I didn’t realize was actually about.           But with that out of the way, the film is “ok.” The plot becomes beyond predictable once the obvious plot twist occurs as the nice building watchman turns into psycho building watchman. Once that happens, really early on, the film slows down…plods into crawl mode and struggles to come up with realistic solutions to Angel’s dilemma. What works for the film is Rachel Nichols is pretty and in a white, low-cut dress. You’ll need that to distract you on why the bad guy hasn’t killed/raped/tortured her or how she hasn’t escaped. It really just comes off as being a film way too long and needing a good 20-25 minutes chopped off. But it can be suspenseful, at the beginning at least.           Comparison: Die Hard meets Hard to Die

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