Chronicle

Now for those of you that do not know what the Found Footage is, please allow me to explain what it is. The basic plot is the audience is shown home video footage of someone filming for a verity of reasons. Then without warning something happens and the person filming doesn’t either cut or run out of tape or battery power and it usually ends with the deaths of the characters or we are told what became of the characters. For many years the genre was marketed as a true story and what we are seeing is the footage that was found. Sadly in recent year’s people are much harder to fool.

I love the found footage genre. Most people complain about it but I like it. Now I admit that some of them like Cloverfield gave me a migraine but sometimes that happens. Hell, there are some Video Games that give me a migraine so I am going to leave that there.

Well I recently decided to check out Chronicle which is a different approach to the subgenre. This flick is both a found footage flick as well as a Superhero flick. However it takes its own approach.

The Flick follows three teenagers, cousins Andrew, and Matt and popular teen Steve as they go to a rave and find a hole in the ground with a strange glowing plant inside. Later on the trio discovers that they have strange powers as a result of this encounter.

Andrew who is relentlessly bullied by both his abusive father and classmates becomes the strongest of the three and begins to see himself as the “Apex Predator” and goes down the dark path leading to a confrontation with the other characters.

One interesting thing about the shooting of the film is the fact that it is filmed with not just one camera and that the characters can use the cameras with their powers so making it look like it is being filmed by another person. I also like the visual effects in this flick, especially in the scene where the kids are flying and encounter an airplane.

The characters are likable and the story where we are shown Andrew’s decent into becoming a super villain.

I definitely recommend this flick.

3 Dead Bodies
0 Breasts
2 Beasts
2 Explosions
1 Car Chase

3 Stars