October 27, 2010

Paranormal Activity 2 review


I've wrote about the new movie in by earlier post. Paranormal Activity 2 is a sequel (or prequel) depends on how you see the movie. If you haven't seen the first movie, you wouldn't understand a few parts and the last part of the movie. However, you don't have to see one, just google or search on wikipedia about the movie, you can read the plot there.

So, the simple summary of this movie, Kristi just movie in to her new house with husband, stepdaughter, Ali and her son, Hunter. At first there was nothing significant happen, but after looks like a burglary in the house, Kristi's husband, Dan, decide to put on several cameras to monitor the house. Little that there know, it was more than human that destroy their house that day. After several weird incidence, Ali and Kristi believe the house is haunted, Dan, however remain skeptical. This all change however when something happens to Kristi that even Dan can't deny it anymore. So Dan decide to "exorcise" the demon. The family life change forever from that moment. You have to watch the movie to know the rest of the story.

I'm gonna be frank about this one, unlike the first one, this one has a lot more people in it, which to me is really great, because we got to see more interactions and more acting. Plus, in this movie, we got to an idea about why there's a demon that haunting Katie(from the first movie) and Kristi even when they were young (it has to do with first born son).

There won't be any major spoiler here, don't worry, you can spoil yourself by reading about it on the internet.

However, unlike the first movie, there aren't a lot of haunting in this one. Most of the haunting only happened at the second half of the movie. There wasn't any REALLY scary moment, but there are some moment where you definitely jump from your seat, HEHEHEHE.

In this movie, the classic tactic of scaring people is apply, much like the first movie. The elements of darkness and silence before the big BANG is how you scare people. This elements work in the first movie, and the sequel.

There are rumours about alternate endings, I won't spoil the ending for you, so you guys have to watch it, and google it.

I gave this movie a 3/5 stars, because of it's somewhat working scariness, and originality, but still the same story from the first one. So watch it when it hits cinema near you!

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