It's exactly what you should expect, if you have a brain.

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2010)

When I saw previews for this movie, it looked like it had some potential. Then I heard it was pretty much the same idea as the Blair Witch Project. Well, I watched it anyway, despite the *glory* that was the aforementioned film.
In case you somehow happened across this review without any prior knowledge of what Paranormal Activity is about, here it is in a nutshell: It's about a couple experiencing strange happenings where they live, mainly while they are sleeping. They decide to film what is going on in the house and the movie is meant to give the feel of watching a home video.
Although I didn't predict everything that would happen in the movie, nothing was unexpected. Just because this movie isn't a cheap scream-in-the-camera fest doesn't make it an original concept. In fact, I would go out on a twiggy little limb here and say that there was practically no originality, just a lot of reasons to compare it to The Blair Witch Project (sorry I brought that up again).
I've seen much scarier movies than this, scary movies that made me pee all over myself because I was too afraid to get up to go to the bathroom. Paranormal Activity didn't make my heart skip a beat or make me jump even once and it left my undergarments clean enough to wear for at least another day.
Seriously, though, Disney's Pinnochio was scarier than this. Remember the donkey scene? Terrifying! This... not so much.
Paranormal Activity does deserve some credit, though, since I did actually get through the entire movie even if it was just to see if anything exciting finally happened. Not that I wanted to, but I can't even say I was disappointed, only that I wasn't surprised.