Tuesday, August 11, 2009

P2


Objective Rating (How much merit I think it deserves):
3.5/10
Subjective Rating (How much I personally like it):
4/10


Year released: 2007
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDB page: here

A puzzling name for a movie, but once you find out it's a label for a level of a parking garage, there's about nothing left to the movie.

Plot: Angela is a workaholic in a large company in NYC. On Christmas Eve, she's the last one to leave from the office, trying to make it on time to her sister's house in Jersey, where her family is waiting. Her car refuses to start in the parking garage, and she asks the attendant for help. But the attendant is definitely NOT the normal, good-natured young man he appears to be...

Cast: Wes Bentley (from American Beauty) is properly psychotic as the attendant and his talent is quite wasted in this movie. Angela (Rachel Nichols, whose cleavage is impressive and whose profile looks a bit like Jodie Foster in the poster) is also a nice mixture of vulnerability and independence. The whole blond, slender pale limb thing really works to the character's advantage. So acting is not exactly the problem, then it must be the...

Script: Yes, that's where the problem lies. It's cliched, it's predictable, and you just know from the first moment on that the beautiful heroine with a fighting spirit is not gonna go down. Ugh.

Production: I would guess it didn't take THAT much money to make this movie. After all, everything happens in a vast parking garage, which did NOT explode in the end (a car does though). There is a nice visceral scene of a man being crushed to death, and that should elicit some ewww's from the audience. Really, I think the eerie, chilly, lonely, desperate feel that could be achieve in a vast dark cavern of a parking garage was not achieved.

Umm, not to be mean, but I want my hour and half back.

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