P2

P2 (2007): You’ve definitely seen this one before. A seemingly helpless woman is terrorized by a Mark 1 wacko for much of the movie but by the end, she changes into a determined fighter who finally whacks the wacko. However, this one is done pretty well and the story goes something like this. Overworked professional woman working late on Christmas Eve can’t start her car and runs into the loony and seriously obsessed overnight parking attendant who can’t understand why she doesn’t want to spend the night with him in his office. After gassing her, she wakes up chained to a chair no longer in her office attire but in her strapless gown and fashion heels. Mr. Wacko still can’t figure out why she is upset and he appears just a bit delusional. Once she gets out of the chair, much of the rest of the movie is spent with gal running around the underground garage barefoot with only the gown for warmth. At times I was sure her upper appurtenances were going to explode out of their protective sheath but the fabric held and we maintained the R rating. In this movie, most of the characters do not act stupidly and all the problems that occur do not seem contrived. This made for a superior damsel in distress movie with reasonable acting, although Mr. Wacko did seem a bit over the top at times. The movie parked an R for: employee crushing, multiple tasering, eyeball piercing, elevator flooding, massive ingénue shivering, dog biting, dog stabbing, dog dying, drag racing, and for excessive use of Elvis Christmas music.