I'm normally not a big fan of the handycam filming technique. In the beginning it was all new and okay but personally I think they should stop that technique. It doesn't do movies any good. Not that Chronicle is a bad movie though. It's definitely something else then the usual superhero movies that we see so much lately. Here three kids get telekinetic super powers after discovering a strange thing underground. What starts as a bit of fun quickly escalates in catastrophes. The story is easy to follow. It's different then the usual action heroes that use their powers to fight evil. The actors are all quite young and are not bad. Thinking about what they do with their powers makes me realize that I would probably try the same things. But it's all fiction. So all in all it's an entertaining movie to watch.

So many movies consist of a band of unlikely people who are brought together by something intense - it's also common nowadays for films to be about teenagers acquiring powers. However, Chronicle is a new twist on the cliché. The way of filming is already the first obvious twist as it is shot in "found footage" style. The added fact that the camera is supposedly moved by the boys mind is even more interesting. Not only did the cinematography bring a fresh take on such a common basic story, the actual plot in it's entirety really added a boost of something new. I can't say too much as I don't want to spoil the movie, but I would highly recommend this movie to somebody who's interested in "found footage" style of films and films that defy the clichés.

Josh Trank may get a bad wrap for Fantastic 4, but Chronicle is something amazing. It uses the found footage genre, but in such a way that it's intense and makes you feel like the main character. The story centers around Andrew, a troubled and depressed teen with no friends or anyone to talk to. He likes to shoot things on his camera, yet is bullied for almost everything he does, including this. Without giving away too much, he quickly makes some friends after receiving telekinesis at a barn party. Because Andrew records everything, we feel like we are a part of him, like his imaginary friend and we begin to feel for him as he makes new friends. After a while, he begins showing his darker side, after trying to rescue is mother, dying with Caner, and being abused by his alcoholic father. His friends attempt to stop him from becoming depressed and resentful again, but he fights back, accidentally killing one of his friends in the process. The other, his cousin, knows exactly what he has done, and why he's filming everything, makes it the even more scary. But when he stops filming, the footage from car dash cams and helicopter cameras makes us feel as if we are no longer Andrew's friend, and we cannot help to feel sorry for him as he fights his only friend to the death.Overall, Chronicle is a very good film and for a low budget is phenomenal.

I confess that I am a pretty big fan of found footage films, and if the screenplay is really good, the movie can be absolutely epic! I really wanted to love this movie because it had so much potential, but it didn't quite get there for me. The idea of a large underground, glowing, foreign object that has the ability to give people telekinesis while being within a certain vicinity of it is an interesting and intriguing concept, but the story-line was very 2 dimensional. It was heavily based on the lives and actions of 3 protagonist teenagers whom possessed telekinetic abilities after contact, and the film never veered back to this object underground. We learned absolutely nothing about this object whatsoever. We don't know if anybody else discovered this object or if it ended up in government possession; we just don't know. Toward the end of the movie it felt like just another revenge/betrayal film as one of the teenagers turned on everybody and ended up feeling all too cliché for my liking. The special effects weren't horrendous, but they weren't amazing. In saying that though, you can't expect pure greatness with only a 12 million dollar budget. I do praise the film for its ability to accumulate 126.6 million USD in the box office off of only 10 million USD. I think a reboot of this movie with an altered story-line and a higher budget could be phenomenal. Bring in depth and sense of intrigue with better characters, an extremely enjoyable cast and limited cliché moments and you have yourself a stupendous film. I personally feel that IMDb's rating of 7.1/10 is a little overrated for what, I feel, the film is as a whole, but I have a bad habit of looking too far into a movie; I always wait for and want the moments that truly blow me away so I'm okay with being picky. All in all, it is an OKAY movie that you should watch once just for the sake of it. Everybody's preference in movies varies, but it's good to hire for a one time watch (to me).Mediocre. Not for me. 5/10