everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Best movie ever!

Blistering performances.

Although the found-footage genre has overstayed its welcome, this film was quite interesting and very different. A subtle supernatural start soon goes very wrong. The climax is insanely entertaining and incredibly well made! Dane DeHaan is excellent.

What a pleasant surprise. Upon Chronicle's release in 2012, it looked like another smaller budget, Project X mixed with Final Destination high school movie. This of course was not the case at all, and I have decided to rate Chronicle at a 7 out of 10 due to its originality. Since this film has come out we have seen Stranger Things and some superhero movies blend in Chronicle's take on telekinesis and super powers. What is really fun about this movie is that even though it becomes a good guy verses the bad guy story, it's really about the evolution that gets us to that point. We also get to see two blossoming young actors that no one heard of at the time in Dane DeHaan and Michael B. Jordan. The three amigos in this story drive our interest as their friendship becomes stronger, as does their powers. As always, conflict grows when one person does not feel the same as the group. This in turn creates our bigger storyline and fuels the story to its conclusion.I would rate this higher, but I felt it was not quite on the scale of ground breaking movie making. It was however refreshing, and much better than what it's previews suggested. The usage of the title Chronicle was clever. However, the utilization of POV camera shots does get old in some scenes, but is brought back through the creativity of the telekenis camera techniques. If you like super hero movies...you may not love Chronicle. If you're like me, and really done with everything Marvel and DC studios has to throw at you, then perhaps you will enjoy it more than the next Batman vs. Aquaman vs. Antman, or whatever else they can piece together. Quick and dirty at just under 90 minutes, and most importantly, fun.

I'm normally not a big fan of the handycam filming technique. In the beginning it was all new and okay but personally I think they should stop that technique. It doesn't do movies any good. Not that Chronicle is a bad movie though. It's definitely something else then the usual superhero movies that we see so much lately. Here three kids get telekinetic super powers after discovering a strange thing underground. What starts as a bit of fun quickly escalates in catastrophes. The story is easy to follow. It's different then the usual action heroes that use their powers to fight evil. The actors are all quite young and are not bad. Thinking about what they do with their powers makes me realize that I would probably try the same things. But it's all fiction. So all in all it's an entertaining movie to watch.

Chronicle tells the story of three friends who upon attending a party fall upon a mysterious rock that grants them superpowers. Although it was outstanding for a superhero movie and certainly took risks that the M.C.U. as well as Fox's X-Men universes would dare to try, as a stand alone film its predictable as can be. But it was good.Chronicle was good because of its fleshed out characters that all felt relatable. And to add on to the fact that the main trio in the film are teenagers it feels all the more relatable through how they react to the events in the film. And although the promotional material might show this movies plot being simply about superpowers it surprisingly has an emotionally gripping though predictable main plot about the main character that makes this movie all the more riveting.The main complaints I have with this movie is how the effects did not look convincing. This problem is pretty visibly due to the films budget. Thankfully since the movie was done on a smaller scale this problem did not take me out of the movie. There were also some character decision's that did not make the most since, but this movie was enjoyable as well as unique.In conclusion Chronicle was good, I thought. I'm glad that it tried something new, and I'm even happier that the movie was able to grip me in way I did not think a superhero movie could. This is without a doubt one of my favorite films of 2012, and will probably be making my list. And I'm giving this one a 7/10.