Chronicle is at all times a wonderful super hero, and coming of age movie for the first half, that segues brilliantly into a fantastic action packed drama in the second half.
I won't spoil much about the story but I will touch on a few things.
The excuse for the "Blair Witch" style is decent, and while it bothered me in the beginning, I got used to it as the film progressed and eventually it wasn't a distraction at all. In fact, the various styles of camera work they incorporated added to the film by the time things got rolling.
The cast, including the lead, are very good. It's very easy to make High School characters annoying and lessen your story, but not here. That aspect is done well.
The origins of the "powers" are dealt with and moved on from, that isn't what the film is about, and I'm glad they didn't waste a lot of time dwelling on things.
The movie traverses the initial excitement and fun of the powers with the eventual problems that they can cause, as well as the leads inner demons.
The last act was just a butt fuck ton of fun. I loved that a lot of the action was filmed from far away, it added a sense of destruction to things and probably allowed them to convey a lot more emotion and provide a lot more thunder than if everything was shot very tightly.
While I would put it slightly behind last years Super 8, Chronicle is a very strong film in it's own right.
This is a Chronicle of how to make a good super hero movie from scratch.
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