A Sequel That Shoudn't Have Been

Not many things happen to scare me. I can go to Knotts scary farm and get followed around the entire park and not become the least bit frightened. I am the same with the movies I watch; the movie has to extremely terrifying to even scare a little bit. I kept on hearing great things about the movie Paranormal Activity 3; i heard it was the scariest one yet and everyone who had went to seen always would talk about how good and scary it was. The trailer looked down right frightening; i didn't even know what to expect. I figured since so many people had said nothing but good things about it I would go off and see it. I had extremely high expectations of the movie and too say the movie was a disappointment is an understatement.
This film was a collaboration of the directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Henry also directed a few other films, the documentary Catfish(2010) and the film NY Export:Opus Jazz(2010).  While Ariel Schulman also directed the documentary Catifish(2010), as well as the short Jerry Ruiz, Shall We Do This? The both together created a movie that brought the supernatural world into play through a young child by the name of Kristi who is often visited at night by what she calls her invisible friend "Tobie". As the interactions between the two become more frequent Kristi's mom's boyfriend becomes more and more suspicious and starts putting cameras up around the house to record anything disturbing happening.  Young Kristi is played by Jessica Tyler Brown and her sister Katie is played by Chloe Csengery. While their mom and her boyfriend are played by Lauren Bittner and Christopher Nicolas Smith. There acting was alright, although its pretty ironic to me that they were trying to act like they weren't acting since it's supposed to be a "homemade" film, or that's the look they were going for.
This movie is supposed to be hand-filmed, but i think that it looks to professionally done for it to be played off as a home movie kind of thing.
 The music throughout the film was nothing too special, or atleast nothing worth remembering. It was pretty average and it didn't help nor hurt the film. The lighting was so so, nothing like i haven't seen before. It was pretty average and bland in my eyes.  The mis-en scene was very ordinary; everything strewed through the seens look like it was meant to be there since most of the setting was just in the family house.The directors tried to create a scary movie but if you ask me it was too predictable, the ending was too abrupt, and it was not scary at all. In my opinion this film turned out to be more humorous than anything. Also, now looking back on it the first scene was completely irrelevant to the entire movie and it has nothing to do with the rest of the plot. I honestly do not understand why it was even added in. The fact that this movie was only 84 minutes should have told me to begin with, usually the movies i enjoy are of the longer variety. Long story short this movie is not one i would reccomend to anyone and i go as far to say that I would not spend my money on this movie; let that be seeing it in the movie theaters, renting it, or even buying it on DVD. The Paranomal Activity directors should not have made any sequels of this movie to begin with. The Original Paranormal was incredibly mediocre. If i were to rate Paranomal Activity 3 i would have to give it 1 and 1/2 stars out of 5. A horror should be able to scare you at least a little, it was a complete let down.