Chronicle PG-13
A relatively new director, John Trank and a cast of unknowns do a mockumentary superhero movie, set in a Seattle area high school. The protagonist is a young journalism and movie buff who uses a camera to record his messed up life, including his abusive alcoholic father and his dying mother, and also his friends. One night after a lame party, the boys go down into a weird cave and find a glowing crystal thing that turns from white to pink and makes their noses bleed. Then some time later, they have a new camera and they find the cave sealed off. Then they begin to develop hyper kinetic powers which manifest depending on their brain training, and they eventually can move objects, cars and even themselves, and can fly. The three friends though begin to take on unusual angst as they are all teenagers, and the camera boy eventually develops a psychosis and thinks he is an apex predator, or super villain. The film is shot kind of like Cloverfield but less jumpy and it has some amazing flying sequences. Although really they said nothing about having the ability to breathe with little oxygen while flying through the clouds. Also during the epic battles, it seems the flying heroes don't simply freak the tar out of the cops and make them run away. Sort of like that scene in the recent Planet of the Apes prequel. If you have a butt load of monsters chasing you, you don't stand there and try to shoot them. You get out of there. So flying teenagers might not be as scary, either that or the cops are just so mad at the town's many flying teenagers it's like nothing to see therm out there, but the movie never establishes that there are more of them. It's a fun little film that tries to be Kick Ass and Scott Pilgrim but with telekinesis.
Review by Adam Browne
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