A friend of mine recommended this movie and suggested I write a review about it...so there I was last night in a nearly empty theatre with a bunch of my buddies waiting for Chronicle to start. I've read a few reviews on the film before watching it and people either loved it for what it is or found it lame. Here's what I thought.
For those who don't know much about the movie, the story centers around 3 teenagers who happen to stumble upon a blue glowing giant meteor and gain super powers from it. The whole film is shot with a "found footage" method, meaning its shot in a documentary type style with a hand-held camera, think of movies like, Cloverfield, Catfish, Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project. So it's safe to say, if you are not fan of that type of filmmaking, this movie might not be for you but having said that, I personally think that Chronicle does it in a pretty creative way that makes it different from the other films I've listed above especially since its a film about superheroes and superpowers. If I had to choose, I'd say this film is much more like Cloverfield in the sense its using found footage containing a lot of action sequences where as other films are usually portrayed like a reality TV series or a documentary film.
The three main characters include: the main camera man of the film, Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHann), Matt Garetty (Alex Russell) and Steve Montgomery (Michael B. Jordan, best known as the QB for East Dillon in Friday Night Lights). Andrew is a very emotionally disturbed individual, who is the victim of insulting jokes, school bullies and a drunk abusive father. Andrew's cousin, Matt is a level headed all around cool, nice guy of the group. And Steve is the funny, popular teen who's running for school president. The three teens all gain super powers from the aforementioned meteor, giving them telekentic abilities, super human strength and the ability to fly—all while giving the 3 of them a special bond and connection with one another. The three start off using their powers as practical jokes which include a lot of laugh out loud moments in a American Pie-esqe manner but to no one surprises, it soon gets them into a lot of serious trouble, all self inflicted—mainly by Andrew.
It takes awhile to get use to the camera style because throughout most of the film, its told through the eyes of Andrew who's basically a newbie cameraman, meaning there's a lot of hand shakiness but as the film progresses, (much like his superpowers and camera skills) the camera-work becomes more and more smoother and we also start to see the film told through other different cameras as well. I was pretty impressed with all the flying sequences because I don't think I've seen anything from the eyes of the "flyer" to this degree. A lot of very visually satisfying shots, great action sequences and like I said, a lot of funny moments.
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For those who don't know much about the movie, the story centers around 3 teenagers who happen to stumble upon a blue glowing giant meteor and gain super powers from it. The whole film is shot with a "found footage" method, meaning its shot in a documentary type style with a hand-held camera, think of movies like, Cloverfield, Catfish, Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project. So it's safe to say, if you are not fan of that type of filmmaking, this movie might not be for you but having said that, I personally think that Chronicle does it in a pretty creative way that makes it different from the other films I've listed above especially since its a film about superheroes and superpowers. If I had to choose, I'd say this film is much more like Cloverfield in the sense its using found footage containing a lot of action sequences where as other films are usually portrayed like a reality TV series or a documentary film.
The three main characters include: the main camera man of the film, Andrew Detmer (Dane DeHann), Matt Garetty (Alex Russell) and Steve Montgomery (Michael B. Jordan, best known as the QB for East Dillon in Friday Night Lights). Andrew is a very emotionally disturbed individual, who is the victim of insulting jokes, school bullies and a drunk abusive father. Andrew's cousin, Matt is a level headed all around cool, nice guy of the group. And Steve is the funny, popular teen who's running for school president. The three teens all gain super powers from the aforementioned meteor, giving them telekentic abilities, super human strength and the ability to fly—all while giving the 3 of them a special bond and connection with one another. The three start off using their powers as practical jokes which include a lot of laugh out loud moments in a American Pie-esqe manner but to no one surprises, it soon gets them into a lot of serious trouble, all self inflicted—mainly by Andrew.
It takes awhile to get use to the camera style because throughout most of the film, its told through the eyes of Andrew who's basically a newbie cameraman, meaning there's a lot of hand shakiness but as the film progresses, (much like his superpowers and camera skills) the camera-work becomes more and more smoother and we also start to see the film told through other different cameras as well. I was pretty impressed with all the flying sequences because I don't think I've seen anything from the eyes of the "flyer" to this degree. A lot of very visually satisfying shots, great action sequences and like I said, a lot of funny moments.
Please continue reading the full review at:
http://www.thetvsamurai.com/2012/02/chronicle-review.html
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