STAY away from level “P 2” of the deserted parking garage on Christmas Eve, where lurks a sketchy attendant (Wes Bentley) with a thing for a blond Manhattan office worker (Rachel Nichols). He seems surprised when – after he kidnaps and drugs her – she doesn’t want to sit down for a nice dinner and drinks.
In standard imperiled-chick fashion, the girl spends the movie running and shrieking while the psycho lazily gives chase. (At one point, he takes a break to sing along to an Elvis record.)
Though he could simply do whatever he’s going to do to her immediately, the movie stretches itself with one predictable development after another. This is one of those thrillers where the person on-screen is often the only person in the theater who can’t guess what’ll happen next.
Lots of laughable moments provide camp value, though, and Bentley (“American Beauty”) makes for a charismatic creep.
Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (graphic violence, profanity). At the 84th Street, the Orpheum, the Kips Bay, others