That was an excellent one.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Blistering performances.

I didn't know it, but I watched the last two out of order. I thought Ghost Dimension came after PA4 until I stumbled upon this title. It really didn't make a difference though. This part was no essential link to Ghost Dimension. This title really could have stood on its own. In any case, everything after part 3 was remedial. They tried different things to breathe life into it but I'm still looking at a dead franchise.In this one the setting is Los Angeles. My guess is East L.A. They go a little further with explaining the weird happenings but still falling short of fully telling the audience what's it all about. Like PA4 though, there is no real reason to be parading around with a video camera. I've done this rant before and I will reiterate it for this review. Sometimes it makes sense to video things, other times it doesn't. I don't think I'm in the minority when I say that when your life is on the line, videoing is probably one of the last things you'd be concerned about. In fact, for most of your life in general you'd probably eschew videotaping--if not because of your own customs and beliefs, at least out of respect for others. As for me--don't come around me videoing everything. Hence, one of my problems with PA:TMO. There was no real, logical or socially acceptable reason to be videoing a lot of what went on. The first three parts were clever and made sense out of having a lot of video footage, PA4 and now PA:TMO have both been weak. Weak with the story, weak with the POV found footage and weak with the regurgitated sequence of events. This is number five, I know they made a number six and in my opinion they made three too many.

Taking a look at Netflix UK's Horror page,I was pleased to spot the the 5th film in the Paranormal Activity (PA) series,which led to me getting ready to meet the marked ones. The plot-2012:Finding out that a neighbour (who everyone believed to be a witch) has been killed, high school students Jesse Arista and his friend Hector Estrella spot fellow student Oscar Lopez running from the scene.Deciding to check the flat (good idea guys!) Arista & Estrella find the place to be filled with black magic items.Metting up with pal Marisol Vargas,the gang decide to mess around with some of the items,and perform a "ritual." Thinking that the ritual was stupid,Jesse begins to notice weird paranormal activity take place,which leads to Jesse's aunt Irma Arista fearing that Jesse has been marked.View on the film:Burning off the trademark "nights" structure of the last 4 films in the series,the screenplay by returning writer (and this time also a director) Christopher Landon brings the Paranormal back at a more comedic edge.Turning the ghosts/demons into zombie-style monsters,Landon uses the Latino setting to give the mythology a salsa chill,which goes from Irma Arista unleashing CGI with her healing attempts,to an eerie table top game. After having everyone shake with fear over the past titles in the series,Landon allows the series to let its hair down by taking a refreshing Comedy Horror route.Despite not avoiding some clichés (who knew all Latinos had guns!) Landon gets the viewer to put their guard down by showing Jesse enjoying his new powers, (which include flying) that soon comes back to haunt him.Taking the franchise in a new direction with the screenplay, Landon and cinematographer Gonzalo Amat disappointingly lose their nerve in the Found Footage format of PA,due to Landon not giving the creepy set-pieces breathing space,by hitting them with an ott shaking camera,which ends up being a mark against the marked ones.

I've only seen the first Paranormal Activity so I'm reviewing this as a standalone movie, even though it's actually a spin off or whatever. It's the same premise though - found-footage, teenagers, ghosts, demons, and what have you. The first 30 or so minutes I was invested in the movie. I really was. I liked the characters, I thought the filmmakers were doing something interesting and fresh, there are some comedic bits thrown around, it was just enjoyable to watch. Then it turns into cliché city. Easy jump scares, stupid mythology that isn't even explained and makes no sense, people running around from room to room with no suspense. It's like halfway through the movie the filmmakers were like "oh crap, this has to be a Paranormal Activity movie. Let's just make a bunch of supernatural crap happen to these characters we developed and wrap this up as quickly as possible". And that's how the entire third act feels: rushed and lazy. It basically went from being an intriguing murder mystery to a generic possession movie.I won't say it's terrible because I didn't hate myself watching it. It just got really uninteresting really fast. Near the end I was just waiting for it to be over because you know there's not going to be any explanation or any depth to the story at that point. You just want these stupid jump scares to stop so you can go about your life not watching this movie. There are worse found-footage movies out there, but The Marked Ones is definitely one you can skip over.

This movie is so boring. its just stupid people who think they know how teenagers act. the first 35 minutes of the movie is just two guys going "WE GOT A CAMERA XD" And filming things that nobody would film. Im not talking about scary stuff, I mean they film them going out for a walk, they film them at a party, they film them drawing a penis on the other guys cheek, they film them talking about smoking weed in their room. The first two paranormal activity films were pretty good, they actually built up atmosphere and some kind of suspense. This film is too slow, like Birdemic: Shock and Terror slow. It takes 35 minutes for anything even remotely scary to happen. The ending is kind of cool because it turns out that they went into Micah and Katie's house in the first film, right at the point when Katie started screaming for Micah. But there was no reason for them to go there, and I enjoyed wondering what Katie saw down there, or whether she was just screaming so that she could make Micah come and she could kill him. So this movie spoiled that. And there are gangsters, WHY ARE THERE GANGSTERS FIGHTING MONSTERS IN A PARANORMAL ACTIVITY MOVIE? That's something Uwe Boll would come up with. This movie isn't scary, this movie isn't entertaining, this movie isn't so bad its good. Its just bad. Boring with nothing of substance or originality