Directed by Josh Trank
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/
Three highschool friends gain super-powers from a wierd incident. They are happy that they have something anyone else doesn't have, they could control and do things the way they want. But, what they don't know is 'With great powers, comes great responsibility'. How the misuse of their powers turns the lives of not just these three but the people living in the same city in danger.
In super-power films, one thing is usual that there would be a person who has got some problems in life, here its Andrew (Dane DeHaan) who is shy, gets beaten by school kids, has a mother who is ill and has a abusive drunkard father. Not only Andew, but his two other highschool friends, one being his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and Steve (Micheal. Jordan) also get the power to fly things or themselves. The first 20-30 mins of film is narrated through the point of view of Andrew ala LSD style, a camera Andrew uses throughout the movie to film every incident of his life. One may get little tired of watching it for too long, but it works quite well for me, not over-done at all.
The problem in film comes with the quick change in attitude of Andrew, who firstly mis-uses power during car sequence, then feels humiliated while trying to make out with a girl during a party, and then the lightening sequence with Steve. One may understand why Andrew does all that, but if only that part was higlighted more where Andrew was about to become a massive destructer for every person living in that city, it could had helped a lot in connecting to his reactions towards his dad or friends.
Also, the mystery isn't revealed as to what actually led to those superpowers, the only thing we are told is they visited a rock kind of thing and eventually got those powers. And the plot involving Matt and his girlfriend was not interesting at all, the writing could had been engaging there.
I liked Dane DeHaan performance a lot, specially his dialogue delivery syncs very well with his character sketch which is more of a loser, and a laidback person. Alex was good, while Micheal a bit over the top. The guy enacting Andrew's father was effective in few scenes he had.
Overall, Chronicle is a film that's good for all the stuffs the three friends do with those powers, and the mis-use Andrew does in the end. But, the story as a whole fails to create magic, especially for the treatment of final 30 mins.
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/
Three highschool friends gain super-powers from a wierd incident. They are happy that they have something anyone else doesn't have, they could control and do things the way they want. But, what they don't know is 'With great powers, comes great responsibility'. How the misuse of their powers turns the lives of not just these three but the people living in the same city in danger.
In super-power films, one thing is usual that there would be a person who has got some problems in life, here its Andrew (Dane DeHaan) who is shy, gets beaten by school kids, has a mother who is ill and has a abusive drunkard father. Not only Andew, but his two other highschool friends, one being his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and Steve (Micheal. Jordan) also get the power to fly things or themselves. The first 20-30 mins of film is narrated through the point of view of Andrew ala LSD style, a camera Andrew uses throughout the movie to film every incident of his life. One may get little tired of watching it for too long, but it works quite well for me, not over-done at all.
The problem in film comes with the quick change in attitude of Andrew, who firstly mis-uses power during car sequence, then feels humiliated while trying to make out with a girl during a party, and then the lightening sequence with Steve. One may understand why Andrew does all that, but if only that part was higlighted more where Andrew was about to become a massive destructer for every person living in that city, it could had helped a lot in connecting to his reactions towards his dad or friends.
Also, the mystery isn't revealed as to what actually led to those superpowers, the only thing we are told is they visited a rock kind of thing and eventually got those powers. And the plot involving Matt and his girlfriend was not interesting at all, the writing could had been engaging there.
I liked Dane DeHaan performance a lot, specially his dialogue delivery syncs very well with his character sketch which is more of a loser, and a laidback person. Alex was good, while Micheal a bit over the top. The guy enacting Andrew's father was effective in few scenes he had.
Overall, Chronicle is a film that's good for all the stuffs the three friends do with those powers, and the mis-use Andrew does in the end. But, the story as a whole fails to create magic, especially for the treatment of final 30 mins.
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