Title: sadistic and predictable in roughly equal measure
Product review: Forget Halloween. For makers of slasher-movies, the holiday of choice would appear to be Christmas, with its glittery decorations and overall atmosphere of jollity and good cheer providing an unsettlingly incongruous backdrop for all the death, bloodletting and mayhem that are standard-issue elements of the genre.In `P2," a beautiful, young corporate executive is held hostage on Christmas Eve by a deranged killer posing as a security guard in the building where she works (P2 is the parking lot level on which she is kidnapped and held).This theme of a helpless ingénue being held against her will by a homicidal maniac is as old as the hills, and `P2' brings nothing of note to the scenario. It's all stock situations and unbridled sadism with very little in the way of actual drama or suspense.Check out 1965's "The Collector," William Wyler's fine rendition on the theme, instead.
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