P2 (2007)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 45
P2 is full of gore, but low on suspense, featuring a cat-and-mouse plot has been done many times before.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 13
P2 is full of gore, but low on suspense, featuring a cat-and-mouse plot has been done many times before.
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A corporate workaholic finds that her decision to work late on Christmas Eve has potentially deadly consequences in this thriller starring Wes Bentley and Rachel Nichols. It's that time of the year, and as the snow falls outside and families gather around the dinner table, Angela vows to close one last deal before the holiday. Now late for her family gathering, Angela rushes down to the garage in hopes of racing home and catching dinner before it gets cold. When her car refuses to start, her
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Wes Bentley
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Rachel Nichols
Angela
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All Critics (74) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (45) | DVD (7)
Bentley plays the role of funny, cagey psychopath quite well, and the film packs more laughs than frights. What woman wouldn't be interested after his homicidal message of love?
Top CriticP2 feels like a vehicle lost in an after-hours parking facility, constantly backing up, shifting gears and generally speeding around in circles in a vain attempt to get somewhere.
P2 may be bad enough to become some other type of classic than the holiday kind.
There's some ghoulish humor in P2, and a couple of scares, but it's little more than the umpteenth variation of the woman-locked-in-a-house plot.
[A] miscast, misdirected botch of a can't-miss plot.
This is one of those thrillers where the person on-screen is often the only person in the theater who can't guess what'll happen next.
The idea of a delusional man holding a beautiful woman captive isn't exactly original, but in the skilled hands of screenwriters Alexandre Aja and Grégory Levasseur the result is a thoroughly engrossing psycho-thriller that never lets up.
Unscary, uninteresting tosh from people who should know better.
It's lurid and overblown, relying on its lionhearted heroine never to play her most obvious escape card, but for those with a taste for such silliness, it makes for a harrowing night at the movies.
....easily surpasses everything those horror remakes of late entail. Revels in tis ability to put sweat on faces, by way of a tense skirmish between car spaces
Toda a trama nada mais é do que uma mera desculpa para enfiar a belíssima atriz num vestidinho branco justo e encharcá-la a fim de que ele fique ainda mais grudado em seu corpo escultural.
all the pieces are in place for a great thriller - and then, just like your typical Yuletide get-together, it all falls a little flat.
Has quite a bit going for it, which makes its eventual reliance on inane genre gimmicks that much more disappointing.
Despite an enormously creepy turn from Bentley, the story has nowhere else to go but into the standard (albeit judiciously used) stalk-and-slash territory.
About as basic and unmemorable as a horror flick gets.
Take "Red Eye," mix it with "Creep," and add a dash of "Haute Tension," finely puree with a sprinkle of camp, and what you have is a long tall glass of this demented horror film...
P2 is nothing fancy or flashy. It could use more innovation, and either tension or dark creepiness, but all in all, it's not a bad directing debut for Khalfoun.
P2 doesn't have the grisly intensity of Aja's other work, in spite of a few moments of cartoonish gore.
Cheesy, cheap and laughable...
Manages to churn out enough tension and thrills to keep things interesting.
Has a central setup that only holds water if we assume that the victim has recently escaped from a home for the terminally bewildered.
How is it that Elvis has become the go-to sign of boys' obsessions?
"P2" won't make horror fans say "P-U."
Storyline was laid out well. There were a few scenes where you find yourself laughing at the movie, but overall it was a decent thriller.
P2 trembles in the shadow of Red Eye but it's not without its virtues.
Audience Reviews for P2
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First of all, this is definitely not a horror film. It barely qualifies as a thriller. I could tell early on that cleavage was going to be the main reason that I finished watching P2. The villain was definitely crazy, but not dangerous crazy. He gave off a "pathetic, lonely, and probably picked on a lot when he was little" vibe. His dog was much scarier than he was. I have to say that Rachel Nichols' character wasn't quite as stupid as one would expect in this kind of movie, she even actually did appear to be making an effort to save her own life on several occasions.
Of course, there are contrived situations that are there solely to provide "suspense" and allow the story to continue (the cab driver leaving; the phone not working inside the parking garage, but it works a few inches past the gate; Rachel stabbing the villain in the shoulder instead of somewhere more damaging, like maybe the NECK). I'd like to think that if I was in her situation, I would have been able to calm myself enough to figure out that simply triggering a fire alarm would probably be a good way to get some help. Rachel Nichols in that dress makes it easier to ignore the plot holes and keep watching, but I don't think anyone would want to spend more than a few dollars for it.
As negative as this review may sound, I do think that most movie critics were too hard on P2. I can't really pinpoint exactly why I liked it so much (beyond the aformentioned dress and its effect on Nichols' figure). Maybe it was because Nichols makes her heroine so easy to root for, because Bentley makes his character so creepy pathetic and easy to hate, or because of the novelty of the setting. Or maybe it's simply because the undeniable ridiculousness of it all somehow works in P2's favor.
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Movie: ID: 770675447 Title: P2 Release Date: 2007-11-09 00:00:00.0 MPAA: 4 Status: 1
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