In short: it was entertaining, but utterly predictable.
I know that found-footage movies have to bend believability all the time in order to keep characters filming after the point that anyone in reality would have stopped, but Chronicle has some of the most obscenely contrived “this scene is being filmed” scenes of any movies of this style that I’ve seen*. Normally I’m able to look the other way on that aspect because for me the found-footage aspect can be very effective, but this time was just too much…And it just kept getting worse and worse as it built toward the climax.
Also the acting wasn’t so great.
But otherwise “The movie didn’t totally put me off.” — Me. For the poster.
* And I’m not even talking about the “floating camera” trick. If you see the movie you’ll know what I mean.
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