Pretty Good

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It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Jesse begins experiencing a number of disturbing and unexplainable things after the death of his neighbor. As he investigates, it isn't long before Jesse finds he's been marked for possession by a malevolent demonic entity, and it's only a matter of time before he is completely under its control. It's far from a masterpiece and it definitely has it's problems for sure but like someone else said the film's ending was pretty damn creepy to say the least (especially the final shot of the movie). The next installment unfortunately was meant to suck. (6.3/10)

A Latino spin-off from the inexplicably popular Paranormal Activiity found-footage series, The Marked Ones follows a group of friends, Jesse (Andrew Jacobs), Hector (Jorge Diaz) and Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh), who discover that strange occult rituals have been taking place in their apartment complex. Soon after, Jesse starts to act very strangely, and it gradually becomes apparent that he has been marked by a coven of witches who need him for one of their black magic shin-digs.Boring, predictable, unimaginative garbage with zero atmosphere and countless ineffective jump scares, the fifth Paranormal Activity film fails to bring anything new to the table, reeling off all the clichés that have become synonymous with the found-footage sub-genre. For about two seconds—when the witches ran screeching from the darkness only to be be blown away by shotgun—the film actually held my interest, but for the rest of the time I was clock watching, longing for the closing credits.After what seemed like an eternity of characters wandering round in the dark, the end credits did indeed come, but only after the final surviving character went through a time-portal to come face to face with Micah and Katie from the first film. Why? How? What? I'm confused, but I really can't be bothered to invest the time trying to figure it out.

Love it or (more often) hate it, there's no disputing the fact that (along with the 'Saw' franchise, which is arguably more slasher/torture-porn), and despite the fact that it owes an awful lot to 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) in its found-footage conceit, the 'Paranormal Activity' horror franchise has defined horror since the first one back in 2007. Since the major success of the first movie each subsequent sequel up to 'Paranormal Activity 4' has enlarged its internal universe with story lines following on from the events of the first movie as well as, more impressively, story lines which both flesh out a surprisingly cohesive and eerie back-story.'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' breaks a little with this tradition. Instead, describing itself as a "cousin" to the first four movies, this film takes a sideways step from the events surrounding the family of Katie and Kristi and chooses to change its setting to a socially deprived Hispanic community. The found-footage conceit is still in place but the change of setting is refreshing and yet loses nothing of the chill factor as we watch three friends become embroiled in these dark machinations: one of whom, Jessie, is a "marked one" and whose personal transformation we follow.So…is it scary? Umm, well, in bits. The main hallmark of the franchise is the quiet-quiet-quiet-LOUD jump-scare. Something which infuriates many in its predictability but which nonetheless remains effective…something like the Big Mac of horror movie scare-tactics. And for better or for worse, these remain in place. However, I found the overall atmosphere of the first thirty or forty minutes actually quite creepy. However, this tension dropped off considerably after this point so that by the time the climax at the creepy house from 'Paranormal Activity 3' (my favourite of the franchise) there was little left.Still, this is not to say that I was bored. I just wasn't scared.Overall, I think it is an interesting installment of the continued 'Paranormal Activity' experiment, one which goes a long way to unlocking the events that preceded it and also one which lays groundwork which continued installments can build upon. However, herein lies the failing: I think the movie would offer very little to a viewer not familiar with the previous films…while for those who have seen the previous films, things just seem very, very familiar.

Before I start my review of the Marked One's, let me give you a quick review of mine on the previous Paranormal Activity movies.Paranormal Activity: Good. Paranormal Activity 2: Loved it, perhaps the only logical and smartest characters in the franchise. Paranormal Activity 3: It was okay. Paranormal Activity 4: Meh...Now what do I think about the Marked One's? THIS MOVIES IS A**! I will give props to the acting because these people do look like they're giving it their all.But the whole movie is filled with predictable scares that we have seen in the previous Paranormal Activity movies. Nothing is absolutely new, all the elements and scares are being recycled.I do like the setting where this movie is taking place. Sort of like the hood/ghetto, where a couple of gangs hang out.The characters in this movie are absolutely dumb, by far the dumbest in the series. For example, Jess's down stare neighbor got murdered and his idea is to go down there with his best friend and investigate what happened, and to find "clues." You know what they do when they're down there? They touch everything that is in the crime scene, they are literally printing their fingerprints! Bunch of idiots! Also, they meet these two girls and they decide to do a little "business" with them at Jess's apartment. But his grandma is at the front of the door and they can't get pass her. So what do they do? Do they go back to the car and "do it" there or do they go to one of the ladies house. NO! They decide to use the apartment where the lady got murdered!Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones isn't even scary. It's filled with a lot of clichés with dumb characters.2/10