Paranormal Activity 3
Synopsis:
This movie was set in 1988 which is about 18 years prior to the events of the first two films - Paranormal Activity 1 and Paranormal Activity 2. It is about Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) who is living with their mother, Julie (Lauren Bittner) and boyfriend, Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith). The event started to unfold when Kristi begins befriending an invisible friend named Toby and strange things started to occur. Dennis, who is a wedding cameraman decided to use his skills to installed 2 cameras, one in their bedroom and another in their children's bedroom during the night. Night after night, the recording shows the invisible entity started to get more and more aggressive , with their family friend Randy and then with their babysitter but Katie doesn't believe that the house is haunted until she witness the strange event herself when all during one afternoon, all her pans, pots, kitchen utensils levitate and then smash on the floor right in front of her eyes. Then, she decided to bring her children, Katie and Kristi to their grandmother house. However, the strange presence continue to haunt them at their grandmother house when Dennis discover Julie and the children missing during the same night at 1am. Armed with a camera in his hand, Dennis discover that Julie's grandmother, Lois is involved in some kind of a demonic ritual and quickly rushes to get their children and Julie. However, the invisible entity grab Julie and throw her off the stairs and then Dennis was killed when the entity snapped his spine upon Lois called upon the entity to do her evil bit.
Review:
I love the first Paranormal Activity even though it was a bit boring at times when too many talking, too little suspense but once the suspense hit the button, it was truly terrifying. Paranormal Activity 2 was a so-so movie amid there are more strange occurrence happening and we get to see more action this time. But, i didn't really feel the fear and suspense as i do in Part 1. I hear all the hype about Part 3 and how it was very good, so i decided to watch it in the theater myself. I admit that the movie pace is quite good and the editing is excellent. There is not much time wasted with pointless babbling like in Part 1 and the suspense build-up is good and better than Part 2. In fact, i was really waiting for the suspense to overwhelm me in the final 3rd of the movie till the end but i kept waiting. In fact, i keep on waiting and waiting for the WoW! in my face to happen but it didn't. And worse, it suddenly and abruptly ended with the ending credits quickly came out. I was saying to myself WTF! Many audiences in the theater also felt the same and felt cheated too. In fact, i clocked the screening time to be less than 1.5 hours. In fact, i felt that it was a little over an hour mark. The talking was about 30~40 minutes before some actual suspense started. And it was over before we knew it. There is no mentioned about why the entity started to follow them from Part 1, Part 2 and now Part 3. There is no mentioned why grandmother Lois sacrifice her daughter, Julie for her grandchildren. So, due to these untold story still untold, there leave many gaps unanswered and thus, disappointing. It could have been a great movie had they invested more time into making a 2 hour movie but in the end, it seems that this movie will be a milking cow franchise movie with the latest rumor that another sequel is currently being planned.
Verdict:
2 star over 5
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