I love all four movies in the main story and The Marked Ones, as well. I only wish two things had been different:
1. PA3 had taken a different route to get to the ending. If they had included the scenes from the trailer(s), specifically the fire, I would have LOVED that movie. I think it would have worked better if the reason they had to go to Lois' house was that theirs burned down. It keeps it consistent with PA1 and doesn't introduce more unanswered questions while still giving us the coven ending that we have now.
2. PA4 had done... more. More with the main story, more with Hunter/Katie/Wyatt/whatever. More of anything. This film -- and I'm watching it right now on FIOS, actually, which prompted me to come here in the first place -- had such a golden opportunity to advance the story line in a bold way and it fumbled. Very little actually progresses out of this movie. We learn far more about the overall mythos from The Marked Ones than we do this. In many ways now, in retrospect, I wish they had used The Marked Ones as the official PA4 and given more time to craft a more coherent story around the same characters and plot line of PA4. Kathryn Newton is an amazing young actress and the chemistry between her and Matt Shively is very strong. They carry this movie. Three-fourths of PA4 is an outstanding inclusion to this film series... the final act, because it has so little actual resolution, is a disappointment. It simply fumbles it. Throw in the abject aloofness of her parents and the glaring unanswered question of who the hell Robbie actually is (and who is the little spectral boy we see in the Kinect dots?!), and it's too much that amounts to too little. Little quirks abound, too. Example: when Alex finds Ben's body in her closet, she gets pulled by Toby out of the room. The very next scene, she's running. Why? It would have been much more effective to have us see her dragged by Toby out of the house and across the street. I want so much to love PA4 and I just... don't. It's a good movie for the series, but the other three (now four) films outshine it in many ways.
With that said, I'm eagerly anticipating this October for PA5. I can only imagine what they will do next.
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scarsick
11 years ago
I like them all, including the japanese remake/alternate sequel Tokyo Nights. I love the first and third movies, I like the second, and the fourth is... ok. My major problem with PA4 is that it's not very scary, quite a few pointless jump scares. Actually, there's only one scene that made me hold my breath (3 words: Katie and Ben). The ending jumped the shark in my opinon, but the story was interesting, and even with that ending it kept my interest in the series enough to wait for PA5.
The Marked Ones is a piece of *beep* though. I'm glad it's not a direct sequel to the series.
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