Marval Movie

"If you had almighty powers, why would you use them for justice, or villainy?"
-Grant Morrison Supergods

Chronicle is the story of three boys who acquire superpowers from a mysterious source, they are the only people in the world with these incredible powers, they could shape the world, so naturally they make a bunch of viral videos.

Chronicle starts with Andrew (Dane DeHanan) a loner who's father beats him and his mother is very sick. He has decided to film his life, for whatever reason. We then see him in school and interact in social situations, and would you have guessed he's not very good. When Andrew gets dragged to a party by his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) he gets burned by nearly everyone at the party so he goes outside. While he is outside the popular kid, Steve (Michael B. Jordan), finds him whimpering and says that he has to come and film what they've found. Andrew gets led to a hole in the ground where his cousin is waiting for him, there's a noise coming from the hole. The boys go into the hole and they find some kind of glowing spiky disco ball, it disrupts the camera and seems to have some kind of gravitational pull, the cave collapses and the boys make it out safe, ow and they can move things with their mind.

The power to move objects with ones mind is called Telekinesis, and the boys along with Andrew's new camera tape themselves using it. They assemble Lego, throw balls at each-other and move a car from one spot to another. The absolute selfishness of how they decide to use their powers is great, these boys either have not had much interaction with comic characters or think there too cool for them.

The movie uses the found footage technique that seems to be popular with hits like Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity. I think Cloverfield is OK, I've never bothered with the Paranormal Activity series. The persoalan is that why would anyone keep filming with this obviously serious situation going on. Here Andrew is weird and obsessed so I believe with the shock of being granted great power, he would want to keep filming every bit of this.

Grant Morrison once wrote a Comic strip called Zenith, this was about a young twenty something British kid who acquired superpowers and did not fight for Justice or Injustice, he used his amazing powers to become a celebrity. I think that Chronicle uses the theory of having powers and not using the superhero formula in this movie they never say superhero or superpowers.

Whenever I am asked if I could have any superpower (it comes up surprisingly regular) I would pick telekinesis and this movie shows why. Its useful, if I don't want to be a satria or villain I can move things around without having to get off the chair, it can be used in defense and attack. I decided this before I watched the movie and now I'm one hundred percent certain.

Having a hand held direction in a movie can be quite nauseating, especially if it gets really shaky but Andrew uses his Telekinesis to suspend the camera in mid air which leads to some graceful camera movement, persoalan solved.

Chronicle does what Unbreakable did, turn the superhero genre on its head. It has all the funny quick humor of those viral Youtube videos combined with the idea of teenagers with a superpower and has serious hard edged themes for the characters to tackle. I predict that Director Josh Trank has a good future.

Rating 3 1/2 stars out of 4