Film Review - Chronicle (2012)

Chronicle is a found footage superhero movie and concerns three young teenage boys, Andrew (Dane DeHaan), his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and their friend Steve (Michael B. Jordan) who enter a cave one night and find a strange meteorite buried in the ground, the three boys are zapped by it and awaken to find that each of them have super powers, but with great power comes great responsibility.

Chronicle I thought was simply of this year's best films and that's really down to the film's script written by Max Landis, if the last name is familiar it's because of the fact that his father is John Landis, best known for such films as Animal House, Trading Places and an American Werewolf in London and he's clearly learnt a thing or two from his dad as he writes a great script that actually takes the time to develops its three leads and how their powers develop.

The best of the three for me was Andrew and to me watching his story felt like I was watching the origin story of Darth Vader we deserved but sadly never got, we see his background prior to getting his powers, we see him learn to use those powers and how he will eventually turn to the Dark Side through a mixture of his own anger and terrible events that make him snap and in a way that we buy which Revenge of the Sith never ever ever did with Anakin, in that film it was simply a case of "want to turn to the dark side" "okay" and that was it, three movies and over 20 years leading to that one moment and it was so incompetently handled you could scream whereas here in a found footage film we get the true origin of Lord Vader that Star Wars fans had every right to expect and deserve given the long gap between Return of the Jedi in 1983 and Revenge of the Sith in 2005.

So all in all, Chronicle was a film I really loved and I think it stands tall as one of the year's best, 3 and a half out of 5.