Gold Medal Dreadful!

Rating: 2/10 (30 October 2009)

Far from the promise of its puzzling hype, Paranormal Activity is not scary, suspenseful, or even particularly interesting. It's just a really bad movie, boring us to near death for 1.5 hours (seemed like 4), watching a rather unpleasant couple bicker and banter in front of a nausea-inducing hand-held camera . Since I had an old gift card for the admission, I could sit back and watch a truly rare example of pointless and bad cinema.
This movie was quite funny in parts, although I doubt the makers intended to keep the audience laughing, as the one in my theater did throughout the picture. The fairly annoying main characters mouth the humdrum script unenthusiastically, never managing an iota of development, and without establishing a modicum of concern for their fate, which is fairly obvious early in the game. The ending gives a small amount of pleasure in that one of these annoying people is dispatched. From this event comes my second star.
I can only recommend Paranormal Activity to those interested in seeing the object of an enormous scam upon film lovers. Don't believe the hype!