Monday, May 28, 2012

Movie Review: Chronicle


Another crazy movie. Chronicle is a fairly recent movie (2012) about a group of angsty teenagers who acquire telekinesis after stumbling upon a mysterious glowing rock underground. Some of them abuse their powers and things eventually get out of hand leading to some pretty bizarre results.

I'm still not quite sure what type of genre this was. Drama/action I guess? Sort of like a super hero movie, without the super hero. There wasn't much music in the movie, but there were a lot of crazy sound effects that were used pretty well and really helped add to the atmosphere. There were three main characters that were all pretty much douchebags, especially the "main" one.

The special effects were pretty cool, even if it was pretty obvious that they were special effects. I thought that the scenes where they flew around the sky were especially entertaining to watch. The plot... pretty good. Decent pacing, plenty of drama, kept you entertained. So yeah, I liked it. A little weird though. I give Chronicle a 7/10.

21 comments:

  1. Ohhh I totally forgot about this movie but I remember I wanted to see it. Thanks for the spoiler free review, I'll have to check it out... 7/10 is a pretty good score.

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  2. I have already watched Chronicle. the story line is good but the cinematography is so poor. well perhaps, thats the reason why it was titled as such because it was a chronicle of an amateur(ist) cameraman.

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  3. i'd watch this on netflix for sure....even if it's about a bunch of douchebags. haha

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  4. A superhero movie without the superhero? Interesting...

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  5. I had seen a trailer for it and thought it looked pretty good, and now I really think it might be something I'll get a kick out of.

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  6. yeah, i saw it, kinda average

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  7. I liked the cast in the film!

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  8. I saw this movie and enjoyed it, I recommend it to everyone.

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  9. Sounds like it's worth a watch.

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  10. I saw this in theaters and I have to admit that it freaked me out! It was the extreme of someone going postal...

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  11. i want to see it in theatre but read bad reiveiws, like it was another blair witch type movie so i siad fuck it

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  12. If only this happened in real life

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  13. I haven't even heard of this movie. I'll have to add it to my list of movies to rent. Thanks for the review!

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  14. 7 stars high ranking havent seen this movie

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  15. That poster reminds me of infamous on ps3

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  16. Saw it recently, agree with your review I do.

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  17. I am inspired to quote Tenacious D. "The power to kill a yak from 200 yards away... with mind bullets! That's telekinesis, Kyle." It's a shame when people use their power of telekinesis for all the wrong reasons. A damn dirty shame...

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  18. I didn't like this movie all that much but it was alright 6-7/10 seems right

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  19. I've seen the trailer to this, it looks pretty good! Defo on my 'to watch' list

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