Credits Director : Franck Khalfoun Starring : Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley Our Score :

By Clint Morris

There mightn't be a lot of space to move – being that it is a commercially-driven teen thriller, and we all know they have to follow a sort formula – but you'll find “P2” is relatively easy to get into.

Essentially Stephen King's “Misery” - but with some welcomely fresh elements of it's own - but set in an underground car park, the Alexandre Aja (“Hills Have Eyes”) produced seat-jumper revels in tis ability to put sweat on faces, by way of a tense skirmish between car spaces. And the best part of it all? Unlike a couple of hours at a real car park, pulling into “P2” won't cost you an arm, a leg and a glove box full of loose coins.

Rachel Nichols (You'll remember her from the last series of TVs “Alias”) plays a career girl, just finishing up work on Christmas Eve, who finds herself stranded at the office – thanks to a car that won't budge. The car park attendant (Wes Bentley of "American Beauty") offers to jump start her wheels for her – but unfortunately for her, that doesn't work.

You see, the car par attendant is a right nutter – obviously abused as a child or bad done by by a high-flying chick; we never really find out what his problem is though – whose just locked down the whole building, including the car park, so that his new friend can't get it. Along with his pet dog Rocky, young Thomas plans to make this a Christmas neither he – or his prey – will forget.

He didn't count on Blondie being a pro with an axe or having a good pair of running legs though, did he?

Thanks to the energized performances of it's two stars – bar a couple of day players, they're essentially the only main characters in the film so they needed to be 'into' this - “P2” works. It's silly at times, and there are a couple of moments in the film that could've used a re-write, but for the most part, it's a fun leave-your-brain-at-the-door thriller that easily surpasses everything those horror remakes of late entail.