In 1999 rumours started going around that a camera was found in the woods and the film was still intact, the footage was released and showed three high school students making a documentary about a local curse that haunts the woods. Later on they get lost, and die supposdly from who they were looking for. This was The Blair Witch Project, and started the trend of The "Found Footage" movie. However this trend has not seemed to have become as popular as it has today since J.J Abrams Colverfield. Chronicle is the next movie to follow in the growing list that is the "Found Footage" format.
Chronilce is anout high school students Andrew Detmer, the outcast of the group, who is being beaten by his father and looking after his terminanally ill mother. Steve Montgomery, the popular kid who is running for class president and Matt Garetty, Andrews cousin, who is just your average joe. The three attened a party, and then discover a hole in the ground with a strange sound emitting from within. Curious, they enter and find a high-tech possibly alien related technology inside which leads them to have "superpowers" or super physic abilities. The three just use their powers for kicks until Andrews life collides with his powers making him cause havok to the streetsm forcing him to be stopped. If he can??
Although Chronicle is an enjoyable movie and I myself enjoyed watching it, the movie does have a hell of a lot of flaws which toned down the experience of the film, which I will touch on and try to explain.
The first one is that they picked possibly the worst three people to gain these powers. Although I can understand Andrews reason, because I myself have been through what he has in school and felt connected to him. However he was still unlikeable as a character from the begining. Steve and Matt I could not possibly understand. Steve is one of the most popular kids in school why does he need powers? But possibly it adds to the realsim, that he acts cool and shows no fear so he would go hunting in the ground if he came across it. Matt I couldn't tell why either. Probably because he was the most underdeveloped character that there was. In fact all three seemed underdeveloped in some ways. Again it probably adds to the realsim, but I think for something like this, it would have been more realistic if three normal people got the powers instead of these three idiots. In fact no, hypocrites. Because of their rule "Don't show/use these powers in front of people or in public" but fot the best part of the movie that's what they were doing, especially when they enter that talent show.
Second flaw was why the hell was Andrew filming everything? To show proof of his dad beating him up, which I would have got. If so why take it to school and everwhere else. Did he want to look back on the footage and say. Yup my life is truly one pain in the ass. Talking of cameras, one thing Chroncile got right was the floating camera, this technique was pretty cool, and the way that they develpoed it actually worked. However there was no reason to cut to all the different cameras that they were, sercurity footage, news footage, police footage,the "Who the hell are you?" girl with her blogging camera, (Casey) They did overdue it and just I found it taking off the found footage format a little bit.
Last one I am going to touch one is the end. The end seemed rushed, now a lot of people would have preferd the end, but I liked the rest of the movie, with them testing out their powers in fun ways and everything. But the way took the end it was cringewrothy, again the cut to cut camera ruined the movie for me and then format of this was stupid. It would have been a hell of a lot better if Andrew just went around beating up everyone and robbing stores like he was insted ending up in freaking hospital, waking up then casuing hovok. It just didn't work out for me.
Now final point I want to mention again that Chroncile is an enjoyable movie, and I liked it it just has soom massive flaws within it that needed to be improved on.
Thanks for reading to the end guys if you have.
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