Chronicle – MD Review

Blimey this was fun. Just when ‘found footage’ seemed to have hit the nadir (Paranormal 3) this reinvigorates the genre. Intelligent, funny and moving – three high-school students discover (via a presumed extra-terrestrial mishap) and share a superpower and react like… well three high-school students.

This is essential a teen staple about school hierarchy, popularity and alienation. But done with some great geekiness, humour and real pathos as we see that with great power come great personal responsibility; it’s not about saving others but whether we can ultimately save ourselves. With its knowing nods to comic book mythology, clever use of multi-perspective found footage and some cool SFX, Chronicle thankfully leaves the 3D to the characterisation.

It’s alienation courtesy of an alien nation. Great stuff

Score 8/10