Paranormal Activity 4 Directed by: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: October 19, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 6/10 Thoughts by TSR: All the Paranormal Activity films have
enough effective moments to keep me coming back every October.
Not exact matches
Yet these little pit stops feel more like time killers than
effective character
moments: it's obvious that Dodge and Penny will eventually develop feelings for one another, but our two leads just don't have
enough chemistry to pull off the illusion.
Threaded throughout the peril is a simple but
effective message about familial love, communication, and sacrifice, and there are just
enough small
moments — for the cast to convey with their faces between major frights — that serve to deepen things ever so slightly.
But after all these years (the first filmed adaptation was in 1907), the story still has power,
enough to give the new Ben - Hur small
moments of
effective nuance amid the parade of empty spectacle.