Chronicle
**** = Contains Spoilers
At first I was really stunned by the movie, the trailers were elusive enough to make me curious and action filled enough to catch my Amurican instinct of violence! It was a good plot, it really was! People in their late 20's play as seniors in high school who find a mysterious rock that somehow gives them all super powers! Golly gee wilikers Batman!
So the main trio, a kid, his older cousin, and the black fellow to even it out, are all three given these super telekinetic powers where they can lift objects with their minds. The movie starts out with the nerdy kid, no friends, abusive dad, sick mom. Throughout the movie the plot unfolds into an even thicker nerdy kid, no friends, abusive dad, sicker mom, and older cousin has a love intrest. The kid, grabs a video camera to practically catch his dad wailing on him. Don't really know why the kid just never called 911 to get the dad in prison, but the dad gets drunk every day, and got hurt doing some boring job that was mentioned once in the movie and never again. So lazy drunk dad is beating on his kid, and the kid gets the camera, and takes it with him everywhere. This reveals that shockingly the kid is picked on everywhere he goes, and the camera doesn't help but to get the kid's ass kicked more.
Cousin gets black friend for diversity reasons, and the kid for the camera to go down into a dark hole in the ground. Now, I am no scientist, but I am pretty sure perfectly round caves do not form in the middle of wheat fields in no where. They find a stone, gives them all powers blah blah blah.
From the beginning you can tell that nerdy kid is far stronger mentally than the other two, and surpases them in power, because let's face it when the other two are off socializing and having friends, nerd is getting powerful >:D. Okay no seriously the kid soon finds himself among new friends and starts doing all these cool things with his powers. This part of the movie kind of hits home with anyone who has ever flet abandoned. Now after about an hour of this happy fun time fooling around shenanigans with the kids I got bored, really really fucking bored. This is when the main focal point of the entire movie shifts.
****
So the gang are driving down the road, some asshole is behind him blaring on the horn, he probably was going to see his son who had cancer and really needed to get there, but we never find out because nerdy kid swipes his car off into a lake! Well, the black friend, who is honor roll, never in trouble, pinnacle of all that is right in the world, dives right in to save the redneck who is now sinking to his doom. Of corse the guy is alright, at least that is what we are lead to believe because the entire movie just calls 911, and leaves and doesn't mention him or his possibly cancer ridden son.
So now the nerd kid becomes probably evil kid, and the rest of the movie is the kid getting stronger, like the first half of the movie. I will leave a ton of the story out because I did actually enjoy it, but the whole movie ends with more holes than a swiss cheese factory, and it left me annoyed that I did not know the end, but un caring about a sequel.
****
MY FINAL THOUGHTS
- Bad special effects, obvious hang wire flight.
- Odd camera angles, didn't need to be the main focus of the story.
- Good story, bad acting, lame ending
The only thing I learned from this movie is when I get super powers with my friends, I need to kill them to ensure my dominance over you puny mortals.
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