P2 (Widescreen Edition)
Summit Entertainment - Summit Entertainment
Release date: 2008-04-08
DVD
Actors: Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley
Color, Drama, English, Feature, Feature Film-drama, Graphic Violence, Horror, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie, Mystery, Mystery / Suspense, Profanity, Psychological Thriller, Stalkers, Suspense, Thriller, Trapped or Confined, USA, Woman In Jeopardy
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P2 (Widescreen Edition)
Date undefinedI thought this movie was good but could have a bit more thrilling parts to it. It shows that a woman does what she has to do in the situation of a stalker especially if he's a nut case like the man in this movie.
P2 (Widescreen Edition)
Date undefinedI'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.
P2 (Widescreen Edition)
Date undefinedP2 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.
