When it comes to found footage movies, I am quite skeptical, because to be fair, most of them are terrible. However, Chronicle is by far the best I've seen.
There's not much you can say about this film without spoiling it,but it is easily proof that if you put a decent amount of money into a film like this, then you are going to get great results. It has the pace of a motion picture, a good cast and story, the effects were top notch and in general the whole thing was very well thought through. It actually has better character development than most motion pictures.
The found footage aspect of it is really good, switching from Andrews camera, to other peoples cameras (a blogger, mobile phones ect) and security cameras in order to keep the pace going and make it more believable. There's a great scene near the end with loads of mobile phones, but obviously I'm not going to spoil it for you.
The only complaint about this film is that they have to explain the fact that Andrew starts filming everything, and introduce the girl as a blogger. So in essence, the found footage factor ruins it, because they needed to put dialog in that, people just wouldn't use.
Overall, a truly epic film, I'll probably never see a better found footage movie, just a shame about the flaws from the genre itself.
9/10
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