Chronicle

Ok so I watched the movie Chronicle the other day.

And I would like to "apologize" in advance for the lenght of this review, I suppose this is for hardcore readers xD

I think the super-hero/supernatural genre has really taken off recently.
Chronicle is basically a mix between x-men, american pie and cloverfield.

And yeah also a new adition to the "handheld/vlogging" camera style.
I mean when the whole movie is shot like a documentary or a vlog by the characters themselves.
If you have seen movies like "The Blair Witch Project", Cloverfield, REC, Quarantine or Paranormal Activity you get what I mean. There are probably many more like them but that's the once I could think of on top of my head.

Ok guys, brace yourselves for sarcasm for here comes my review :P

So this movie was retarded from the beginning. The main character Andrew has bought a camera and is going to start "filming everything" for no obvious reason. Ok I can accept that for the sake of this movie, I don't like it but I can accept it.
Then he follows his cousin to a party in a barn in the woods where he just goes around and filming everybody.
Then some random dude he never met tells him to follow him into the forest where he has been for no reason and found a hole in the ground.
Andrew tags along and yes there is a hole in the ground.
Then what do they do? What every normal person would do in real life when they find a hole in the ground in the forest, they jump in....
Inside they find a big crystal who changes colours and they faint or something.
The next you know they have superpowers and are video-taping themselves fooling around with it.

In it's wholeness the movie was ok, It wasn't boring enough that I coudn't watch the whole thing atleast. But as you can imagine I think It was really stupid and unmotivated.
There were no answers or logical reason for anything that occured.
It's like the scrips writers came up with a "cool" idea for a movie but put no thought in why or how this would make sense.


Ok I know this is a sci-fi/fantasy and isn't supposed to be realistic or anything but even a fantasy movie can be realistic and thought through! Take the "rise of the planet of the apes" for example.
Yes I know events like that would probably never happen but everything was so though through and well explained and it all made sense and It was very satisfactory in a way fantasy movies sadly very rearely are.


My score for Chronicle is 4 out of 10. Quite entertaining but lacked all the necessary ingredients to make it memerable and the build-up was horribly bad and even frustrating.