Chronicle is a movie about three kids Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Matt (Alex Russell), and Steve (Michael B. Jordan). Andrew is the outcast kid, Matt is his more popular and I guess smarter cousin, and Steve is the uber popular kid running for student president. Andrew has decided to film his life and so most of the movie is from this "found footage" point of view.
Andrew's confidence and popularity grows as his friendship grows with Matt and particularly Steve, all which crashes down at a party. Andrew gets all angry and ends up accidentally killing Steve. Andrew's popularity dies along with Steve and he decides he's an apex predator and then goes on a violence spree. I suppose some of this parallels Akira, as was intended by the director.
It was an interesting concept. Admittedly, I grew a bit bored of the kids doing their parlor tricks as the movie spends quite a bit of time on this. It's not a long movie, but something like half of this was spent on them discovering their powers and building upon it. The instant friendship between the three also seemed a bit hard to believe. I suppose all having a power like this would serve as a bonding mechanism, but Andrew is still very much unlike the other two so I found it hard to believe they'd be so close so quickly. It's a minor nitpick though.
The movie ends with a fairly cringy scene, that I don't think was needed. I think we knew Matt was guilty for what he did. They also had a subplot with Matt developing a relationship with Casey, that really didn't go anywhere and was pretty much pointless. Maybe this was for a possible sequel?
6/10. I can see how some would like this more, and I wanted to like it more, but it just didn't quite do it for me.
Andrew's confidence and popularity grows as his friendship grows with Matt and particularly Steve, all which crashes down at a party. Andrew gets all angry and ends up accidentally killing Steve. Andrew's popularity dies along with Steve and he decides he's an apex predator and then goes on a violence spree. I suppose some of this parallels Akira, as was intended by the director.
It was an interesting concept. Admittedly, I grew a bit bored of the kids doing their parlor tricks as the movie spends quite a bit of time on this. It's not a long movie, but something like half of this was spent on them discovering their powers and building upon it. The instant friendship between the three also seemed a bit hard to believe. I suppose all having a power like this would serve as a bonding mechanism, but Andrew is still very much unlike the other two so I found it hard to believe they'd be so close so quickly. It's a minor nitpick though.
The movie ends with a fairly cringy scene, that I don't think was needed. I think we knew Matt was guilty for what he did. They also had a subplot with Matt developing a relationship with Casey, that really didn't go anywhere and was pretty much pointless. Maybe this was for a possible sequel?
6/10. I can see how some would like this more, and I wanted to like it more, but it just didn't quite do it for me.