P2

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P2

R

2007

1h 38m

Mystery & Thriller

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Angela (Rachel Nichols) is working late on Christmas Eve. When she finally decides to leave, she goes down to the parking garage to get her car, but it won't start. Thomas (Wes Bentley), the garage's security guard, offers to help. He also invites Angela to dinner, but she refuses. Thomas, crazed, knocks her out. She wakes up in Thomas' office, chained to a chair and in different clothes. Now Angela must fight for her life in order the escape from the garage.

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Critics Consensus

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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Karl French

Financial Times

10/07/2018

It is like a Michael Haneke film but without the intellectual underpinnings and is therefore just pointlessly plain and, in one long scene of torture, unwatchably sadistic.

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Dan Jolin

Empire Magazine

04/28/2008

1/5

Unscary, uninteresting tosh from people who should know better.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

11/30/2007

C+

Has quite a bit going for it, which makes its eventual reliance on inane genre gimmicks that much more disappointing.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Dec 30

3.5/5

A solid little holiday chiller that's carried by some effective camerawork and a powerhouse lead performance from Rachel Nichols.

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Emma Wolfe

SpookyAstronauts

06/01/2021

6.5/10

The last 30 minutes of this film is so gripping and so exciting.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

11/27/2020

6/10

Attempts to do for parking garages what "Psycho" did for showers.

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Jelisije J

@jjosifovic Mar 14

A surprisingly decent typical slasher film where a women gets trapped in the parking lot of the building she works at with a very lonely parking security guard. Predictably stale, but nothing overly offensive to have a watch either.

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Steven t

@SST609 Dec 23

Good Christmas Eve thriller.

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Jens B

@Jens97 Dec 16

The abandoned parking garage as a setting for a horror film – a trend 20 years later than liminal spaces and backrooms – works surprisingly well. As for the acting: Rachel Nichols reprises her role from the Amityville remake, and Wes Bentley is only making the film to earn more money for heroin anyway. The special effects are a highlight, but unfortunately, there are very few victims – "P2" aims to be more of a psychological chamber piece than a slasher. As a lighthearted Christmas horror flick, "P2" is okay, but nothing more. One viewing is more than enough.

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Jacob B

@RT89309114 Dec 9

So...did I watch the same movie as these other people? Because I thought this was an underrated psychological horror/thriller. I get disapproving of the excessive violence and let's just say that a certain scene would not fly in the post-John Wick landscape but torture porn? It really isn’t, despite what this film coming out during the Saw franchise's heyday might imply. P2 does a terrific job of wringing out as many thrills as possible from its claustrophobic premise with well-constructed cinematography, a sympathetic heroine and an unhinged performance from Wes Bentley. It never feels like there's any cheating to let one side win. The result? A climax that's all the more cathartic when one side has had its fun and now it's the other's turn. A tense, edge-of-your-seat movie perfect for the "movies merely set around Christmas still count in my book" crowd. Not a work of art but I do think P2 deserves its "Vindicated by History" addition on TV Tropes.

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Jan O

@vafan Dec 4

Disgusting. Shown by the name of "100% Christmas" at Rakuten Free Films service. With cute commersials with hearts bubbling up as a guy is getting brutally murdered.

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Craig B

@Boundsy Aug 30

A reasonably decent horror flick. Worth a watch.

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Franck Khalfoun

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Synopsis

Angela (Rachel Nichols) is working late on Christmas Eve. When she finally decides to leave, she goes down to the parking garage to get her car, but it won't start. Thomas (Wes Bentley), the garage's security guard, offers to help. He also invites Angela to dinner, but she refuses. Thomas, crazed, knocks her out. She wakes up in Thomas' office, chained to a chair and in different clothes. Now Angela must fight for her life in order the escape from the garage.

Director: Franck Khalfoun
Producer: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, Patrick Wachsberger, Erik Feig
Screenwriter: Alexandre Aja, Franck Khalfoun, Grégory Levasseur
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Production Co: Summit Entertainment, P2 Productions
Rating: R (Strong Violence/Gore|Language|Terror)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 9, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.0M
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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