When I sat down to watch the 2021 horror movie "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin", I must admit that I wasn't really expecting much of anything grand here, as the movies have been dull, uneventful and over-hyped since the very first movie. Yet, I have stuck with the franchise and watched the movies as the years went by, hoping that eventually the franchise would get better.
Sadly so, then "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" was not the movie that was going to turn the frown upside down. Writer Christopher Landon managed to achieve to keep this seventh movie in the franchise in the same monotonous, dull, uneventful and rather boring atmosphere and pace as the previous six movies. Perhaps that is an achievement in itself actually, keeping the movie on the same level as the previous ones.
The storyline told in "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" was just downright boring, and you have to get up to about the last 20 minutes or so of the movie before things start to pick up. Just like it has been in every single other "Paranormal Activity" movie, so nothing new there. But by then it is just too little, too late. And so was the case with "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" from director William Eubank as well.
The acting performances in the movie were adequate, sure. But I can't claim to be able to pinpoint a single performance in "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" and say that it was the best or the most memorable. So don't expect to be in for a grand cinematic experience here.
Visually then "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" was right up alongside with the previous six. So if you enjoy shoddy and questionable camera work, dark footage and barely seeing whatever it is that is doing the paranormal activity, then you are in for a treat. Not really what tickles me all the right places, so I wasn't impressed with "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin".
My rating of "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" lands on a generous three out of ten stars. It had potential, but fell into the slump of being just another run-of-the-mill "Paranormal Activity" movie.
Sadly so, then "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" was not the movie that was going to turn the frown upside down. Writer Christopher Landon managed to achieve to keep this seventh movie in the franchise in the same monotonous, dull, uneventful and rather boring atmosphere and pace as the previous six movies. Perhaps that is an achievement in itself actually, keeping the movie on the same level as the previous ones.
The storyline told in "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" was just downright boring, and you have to get up to about the last 20 minutes or so of the movie before things start to pick up. Just like it has been in every single other "Paranormal Activity" movie, so nothing new there. But by then it is just too little, too late. And so was the case with "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" from director William Eubank as well.
The acting performances in the movie were adequate, sure. But I can't claim to be able to pinpoint a single performance in "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" and say that it was the best or the most memorable. So don't expect to be in for a grand cinematic experience here.
Visually then "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" was right up alongside with the previous six. So if you enjoy shoddy and questionable camera work, dark footage and barely seeing whatever it is that is doing the paranormal activity, then you are in for a treat. Not really what tickles me all the right places, so I wasn't impressed with "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin".
My rating of "Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin" lands on a generous three out of ten stars. It had potential, but fell into the slump of being just another run-of-the-mill "Paranormal Activity" movie.