Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
There's some ghoulish humor in P2, and a couple of scares, but it's little more than the umpteenth variation of the woman-locked-in-a-house plot.
– Walter V. Addiego,
San Francisco Chronicle,
9 Nov 2007
rotten:
P2 may be bad enough to become some other type of classic than the holiday kind.
– Mark Rahner,
Seattle Times,
9 Nov 2007
rotten:
P2 feels like a vehicle lost in an after-hours parking facility, constantly backing up, shifting gears and generally speeding around in circles in a vain attempt to get somewhere.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
9 Nov 2007
rotten:
Bentley plays the role of funny, cagey psychopath quite well, and the film packs more laughs than frights. What woman wouldn't be interested after his homicidal message of love?
– Drew Toal,
Time Out New York,
15 Nov 2007
rotten:
P2 doesn't have the grisly intensity of Aja's other work, in spite of a few moments of cartoonish gore.