Chronicle is yet another movie I've
never heard of until I saw a trailer for it a few weeks ago. It
looked interesting enough as I'm a sucker for a “person gets super
powers and starts going crazy” stories, so I bought it as the
blu-ray is quite cheap. However, it turns out there's a Director's
Cut version which is not the one I purchased, so this review is just
for the theatrical edition.
This is the first “found footage”
movie on this site, a genre which I am sick and tired of not because
it's overdone, but because they almost never make sense from a
realistic standpoint. No one would be able to capture most of the
moments you see in the angles they get, and it constantly takes me
out of the film. Not to mention issues like sound quality, battery
life, memory limitations... yes, I overthink everything.
I suppose one could also point how most
are woefully low budget and contain terrible writing, acting,
directing, editing, and then there's the endings... oh Good God, the
endings. You know it says a lot about the state of today's
movies when found footage film the Blair Witch Project is
now considered the Citizen Kane of the genre. But why am I ranting about horror found
footage movies? We have a sci-fi one to watch! Let's see how this
story fares, with A Ghoul Versus Chronicle.
