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i loved it, i'm a huge Aja/Levasseur fan and there stamp can be seen all over this film, in an age where gore can be relied upon too much within a film, its incredibly rare to find the suspense horror film, but this delivers it in spades with still some gore thrown in to the mix. Unbelievable film.
Kinda boring really. I was going to turn it off, but I did want to see how the guy was going to be killed and if they would leave it open-ended- thankfully they didn't! Rachel Nichols was pretty good, but she reminded me too much of Sissy in Carie- and who can top Carie?? The guy was never really scary and the body count sucked. No surprises, lots of parking lot, and not enough kills to make this a "horror" movie. Save your money and rent Splinter instead.
Crap, not original and how the hell did that water stay in the elevator??!! DUMB crap....and don't even get me started on the car scene at the end..i was so waiting for a tumbleweed to blow across........
a good thriller of a movie, but the lack of deaths bothered me for some reason...you would think there would be more people in a big ass building like that...oh well
If the producers of this film had said P2 was a comedy, it would have struck box office gold, but no, it was released as a suspense/horror/thriller. It\'s hard for a movie to be scary when the bad guy acts like a 9-year old. Basically this deranged security guard named Thomas who kidnaps this woman named Angela, tries to make her love him by killing people who have wronged her, and sings Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas". The latter is the scariest part in the movie. It's a predictable movie too, you'll spend more time calling out what's about to happen rather than pay attention to the characters. If you think of it as a comedy, P2 isn't so terrible, but otherwise, don't see it.
for starters, i would probably consider P2 a suspense/thriller instead of a horror film. so i'll write this review considering it as such. compared to Aja's other work this movie is a little disappointing. i thought the movie was ok in general though. the actors seemed to work well together and i thought the cinematography was excellent. but on the downside i thought the storyline was pretty silly with quite a few plotholes. i also thought they used an appropriate amount of gore for this type of film. so all in all, as a horror film i think it was pretty bad, but a suspense film, i thought it was an ok way to spend an hour and a half.
This film really could have been good, but it was a heap of ideas just thrown into a movie bowl. I thought the killer's motive was pretty original, and the editing was pretty cool. Parking garages are really scary places, but this film just made them kind of silly. I really liked the idea of being stalked and losing your mind in such a place, but this movie just wasn't executed right. Something made me keep on watching, though..I don't know what it was, cheap thrills or something but I suppose, if you have nothing better to do on a Saturday nite, this movie is just the ticket.
Posted By: Tressia Ecks at 8:00pm, February 8, 2009
P2 delivered exactly what I expected. No more. No less. Guy stalks Girl. Guy captures Girl. Girl spends over an hour running/hiding from Guy. Girl grows a steel pair and does Guy in. I wasn't blown away by the acting. Though Nichols and Bentley did a fair job. I wasn't awestruck by the set. It's a parking garage. I wasn't leaping from my skin. I knew what was going to happen 10 minutes before it did. The film gave me what I wanted. A cheap thrill.
I'm giving it a 10 because I wasn't disappointed as I didn't expect much to begin with. I was relatively pleased with the result.
Posted By: bloodlust89 at 2:22am, January 28, 2009
I saw P2 on the 3.99 shelf at my video store, read the back, and decided to give it a go. I wasn't expecting much from it, and I got what I thought I would. It is the same type of bland, carbon copy "thriller" that every film company is spewing out. It did have its moments here and there,and featured some decent acting. Worth my 3.99, 3/10.
Posted By: andrewautopsy at 2:46pm, December 19, 2008
very good movie.
Posted By: gorehound62 at 6:00pm, November 18, 2008
i actuall enjoyed this movie. wes bentley kept it going. its hard to make a movie too interesting when the whole thing takes place in a parking deck. not too bad.
Posted By: Butterkeuh at 12:25pm, November 1, 2008
this is a good movie and the acting was good. I liked it.
This movie wasn't that bad considering the other crap that's out there. Sure it might feel like you've seen this a thousand times but some of us don't feel that way. It still is a horror film worth watching.
Posted By: WinterRaven at 3:09am, October 13, 2008
I found myself fast forwarding through this one. It just seemed a little predictable to me. It looked better in the previews.
Posted By: Protecious at 12:51pm, September 30, 2008
Surprised I liked this film, it's very well done, very good suspense, you definatly get the feeling alex aja was involved in some way with it, which probably made it a better picture overall, some people will find it lacks in alot of things, but the villian was interesting, almost norman bates like, he was a believable character who was just slightly out of wack from reality, sometimes it's scarier to know that the everyday person you run into is capable of such horrific things.
The single main flaw—and really the only main flaw, because nothing really happened in the movie—is that P2 is pointless. It’s the exact same typical run-of-the-mill thriller that you’ve seen 100+ times in TV movies from the 70’s and 100+ times in James Patterson novels. The entire movie had no point. Why would you enjoy watching something that you’ve seen so ridiculously much? I love thrillers, but not when they just rehash what the last thriller did a few months before it and that thriller rehashed what the thriller before it did . . . and so on until you have more carbon copies of the same exact thing that all claim to be “better than the last movie with this exact same plotline”. Thus P2 is pointless. It’s just a copy of a copy. It follows the same plot structure you heard in sixth grade: person lives normal life, person is captured, person tries to get out, there is a climax, and person lives/dies. You know the formula better than your ABCs. I could have literally fallen asleep after the first 10 minutes of this movie, then woken up before the last 10 minutes and known every single thing that happened between the two points. It gives predicable a new name, because as I said, it’s a copy of a copy of a copy in a never ending cycle of copies. There is so much copying in the thriller genre today that it makes the amount of copies in the slasher genre look downright conservative.
And don’t try to argue that you like “this type” of thriller and you enjoy all the senseless copies because you like the “type” or “sub-genre”. Great, because you and I are in the same boat. I like the sub-genre. I love thrillers. But I don’t love bad guys who are so cliché and paper-thin they make me laugh. I don’t love the same exact plot every time I watch a thriller. I want something different to happen within the same genre. If you are one of those people who claim nothing can be done original anymore, go watch the first Saw or the French film Inside. Go Red Ted Dekker or Dean Koontz. I can name a lot of people who can actually achieve well-done originality within the thriller genre—that argument falls flat. P2 does nothing different. It didn’t try to. I for one am tired of directors who have no brain of their own and think, “Let’s just copy that movie and get money . . . people will watch it and give it great reviews because they’re as predictable and boring as I am.” That is the definition of P2.
On a technical level, the acting is flat to poor. The directing is uninspired. The storyline is worthless. The style is bland.
On an entertainment level, the movie is slow moving and boring. It plays along the same lines as every other copied thriller by trying to take half the movie characterizing paper-thin clichés who don’t even vaguely pass off as real characters with character. From start to finish, everything you expect to happen happens. There is no suspense or emotion. The entire movie is flat-line, pretentious, and unentertaining. There would have literally been more productive use of screen time if they focused the camera on a walrus get liposuction.
There are so many other things I could criticize P2 on, but instead I’m going to end this differently. I’m going to speak to those of you who like P2 and all the copies that it copied: it is because of you anyone who wants original thrillers don’t get them, and because of you that we have to watch bore-fests like P2 instead of a truly mind-blowing, amazing thriller. Unless you raise your standards, P2 is the best you’re going to get. And that is just pathetic.
Watchable and enjoyable little thriller that gets a little too far fetched in places, but delivers the goods. P2 has enough suspense, action, and scares for horror fans looking for a good time. It's not another overly gory torture movie or a dull "psychological" thriller.
I won't spoil anything else, just rent it and you might find yourself surprised.
one of the best horror movies that revolve around Christmas..EVER! I didn't know the actors in this movie and now after seeing the movie and their acting it defenitly makes me want to check out their other work. This movie makes you feel creeped out about Christmas in a parking garage..LOL!
As it begun ,
the empty car park ,
darkness,
and a chilling christmas song in the background ,
i thought.. THIS MOVIE IS GOING TO BEE GOOOOOOD!
And yes it was , Not brilliant, Not that scary , or gory , But it was a good movie ..
Watch it.
Movie wasnt that bad. Im not gonna lie I thought Wes Bentlay was creepy and crazy as fuck lol. But I thought it was a pretty decent horror flick. I love when horror movies take place on Christmas.
it just didn't do it for me it wasn't what i thought it was going to be and a little disappointed i had a hard time following it and it was just boring
Everyone has there opinion but I thought this movie was much better then what Mr. Disgusting's review made me believe. I wasn't expecting much after I seen that he gave it a 2 (I didn't read the spoiler review). Fine there isn't much to the movie a lady gets out of work and her car doesn't start up and the security guard tries to help here but to suddenly turn on her. The thing I felt was creepiest about this movie is that it could actually happen, sure a security guard if he wants can turn on you and make you his b@itch. The best thing about the movie is that I wanted her to get away from him. The security guard comes off as a huge @ss hole and he plays it well. Everyone has there opinion on this movie, I just dont think this was Mr. Disgustings type of movie.
From alot of people I heard this movie was horrible. But I really enjoyed it. I liked this as much as some hard core bloody horror movies such as hostel/ I thought the story to this movie was good and, that Wes Bentley was a good villain and, that Rachel Nichols was the best person to choose as Angela. This movie made me jump a couple of times and excited me! I think people shoild give more time to movies like this instead of wating time going to see a torture porn like saw. I do like the saw series but I think there are just too many torture movies out now. After Saw 3 torture movies got old. I would rather go enjoy a horror where a killer stalks a girl and the girl tries to get away. The classic horror movie storyline. P2 was 1 of the best horror movies of 07!
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