P2 is a little nasty picture which does what it's got and doesn't apologize for it. The action takes place in a Manhattan office block on Christmas Eve. The focus of our interest is a young woman, Angela Bridges, who's clocking out after almost everyone else has gone off to join their families and celebrate. Angela gets down to the underground parking lot of the building where her car is waiting for her, one of the very few lone vehicles still within the abandoned premises. Much to her frustration, however, the car refuses to start, so she gets out and walks over to the security guy's booth to ask for help. The man seems polite enough and addresses her problem with keenness, suggesting it could just be the battery. After hooking a portable jumper to the battery it becomes clear that the battery is not at fault. He suggests a few more tips to which she politely declines and instead decides to call for a cab. It is from then on that things start to get nightmarish.It's certainly a limited concept with nothing much to play around, but given the circumstance it pulls it off splendidly. Aside from its predictability, the move's upside is the bypass of clichés, which in my opinion, is admirable. If you're looking for a substantial psychological thriller, look somewhere else. It doesn't really delve into the loonie guy's mind and attempt to extrapolate a certain cause and effect to his behavior; it doesn't rely on background at all. What it does is pick a clearly disturbed man and a pretty and victimized young woman, put them in a confined space and let the guy act out his demented plot, keeping the viewer on edge just because we really start to like Angela. And why? Because she seems to do all the right things unlike those countless foolish heroins in peril we've seen so many times. And if she fails over and over along her fight to escape, it's because the guy's really persistent. But aren't all crazies that way?

PROS: P2 is a film like no other. If you take all the basic problems with slashers these days, you wouldn't find them in this film at all. You often see a poorly thought out plot line, a terrible setting, or basic outcomes, but this movie brakes through these stereotypes. Something that P2 did very well was create a setting that was simple but well used throughout the duration of the film. There was enough happening to keep you engaged, even through there was slow moments. Another thing that was well done was the intricacy of the plot. There was enough time given to let the viewers know that the "killer" had an intention, and wasn't just crazy. To add on, the craziness was acted immaculately. There was a good balance to let you know that he was a person, not just a character for the sake of being a character. To add on, something a slasher needs to have is a great amount of tension. Without this the movie will lack in almost every other category. And lucky for us P2 was filled with enough action, and tension, and suspense, and terror, and horror to make for a very fun watch.  CONS: The smallest thing in this movie that was irksome, was the last 5 minutes. The ending kind of lost me. I have no idea why they thought it was good, but it felt detached from the film as a whole. The ending was good, but it just didn't fit for this movie.www.chorror.com

P2 is another low budget horror movie that turns out to have wasted the time of the viewer once you finish watching. Unfortunately by that point you've already wasted an hour and a half of your life on it, so consider this review a warning.It's an essential two-hander about a typical businesswoman played by Rachel Nichols (the CONAN THE BARBARIAN remake) who finds herself locked in an underground car park at Christmas time with a crazed security guard (American BEAUTY's Wes Bentley). What follows is a predictable and very tired cat and mouse game between the two of them, one that seems to go on endlessly and repetitively until there's a final dramatic conclusion of sorts.P2 singularly manages to avoid being frightening at any point, which may be because Bentley is channelling his American BEAUTY character and doesn't seem scary at any point - sad, yes, but a decent villain, no. Nichols gets zero character development and the director seems more interested in shooting her at chest height than anything else. In desperation, a couple of extreme gore scenes are thrown into the mix to spice things up, but they don't do anything in a film that goes nowhere.

It seems to be a rule of many thrillers, that if a vicious dog makes an appearance you can be sure it shall be put to use against a protagonist. Another rule stipulates that if there are cellphones they shall, for whatever reason, not work.Unfortunately for the movie, not only does the female lead's phone abandon her, so does her brain. The synopsis of this film suggested a character that had to use her wits to overcome her captor, and her own inner-problems or limitations or something to that effect. And of course, being stuck in an abandoned parking garage it had me intrigued. But the character (Angela, played by Rachel Nichols)) was so poorly developed it was hard to empathise or sympathise with her; we never knew where she came from or what was going on with her life or how she was feeling. And when a film has only two main characters this is of itself a major problem.As for the other half, the antagonist Thomas played here by Wes Bentley, screaming, and crazy angry stares don't account for character development. We understand that he is alone, possibly lonely, coz he sorta kinda says as much (towards the end of the film, mind). But that's as far as we go into his fractured psyche which again leaves us with another character we cannot on any level relate to. Though I will say his evil deeds are annoying and grotesque, and I'm referring here to the lone, obligatory blood'n'guts scene which I found to be highly distasteful. So you do sorta end up hating him and praying for his demise but for the wrong reasons.And then there were flaws with logic (as another reviewer pointed out), in dealing with her seeming inability to find a fire alarm and set it off, or phoning 911 when she had the time to. Of course, if she had done so it would've ended the whole film a lot sooner, although I'm not sure if that would've been an altogether bad thing.If you're looking for good thriller that knows how to create suspense, I'd go either for Red Eye with the wonderful Rachel McAdams and Cillian Muprhy; or the tense, fast-paced A Lonely Place to Die with Melissa George - not only does this movie have a better story, it has some lovely cinematography to boot.I give it a 3 outta 10 coz I didn't find the acting all too bad; it wasn't too bad to look at, either; and it certainly wasn't the worst I've seen.