too much, too soon

Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2013)

There's too much material and too little time for adequate cinematic presentation. Everything feels rushed and crammed into one movie. They waste too much time on irrelevant scenes, and not enough time on scenes that should be anticipated. There's too many plot twists that strain credibility, and after an hour the entire situations starts looking ridiculous. Que the nostalgic seventies technology and it gets very close to comedic.
Starting with zero stars, I gave one star for originality, one star for competent acting (not Oscar winning but watchable), one star for paying homage to movies that were actually worth a damn, and another star for setting and ambiance.
So I hear they are making another installment: Insidious, Chapter Two. But I can't imagine the next movie to do anything but rehash the first one. All the ideas were used in this one.
And after the Paranormal Activity series; I get that people don't want to wait five years to figure out what's going on. I just don't think cramming a couple movies into one is a very good idea either.