Despite a gimmicky type premise featured in its previews, Chronicle fuels its action with characters you can laugh with, understand, and even take to heart.  The audience member constantly feels on edge and even in awe of the events the movie entails.

The movie starts out with a high school senior named Andrew (Dane DeHaan) who sets up a camera in his bedroom to catch his abusive father (Michael Kelly) punching him while Andrew’s mother lies dying downstairs. Andrew, the shy loner with a shocking end story, finds that chronicling his life with a camcorder is opening his world. That’s especially true when Andrew, his cousin Matt (Alex Russell), and school icon Steve (Michael B.) discover a hole in the ground containing something alien and or radioactive.

Whatever it is gifts them with powers that start slow with magic tricks, messing with girls, and shifting cars in a parking lot, but then leads to more powerful things. DeHaan, Russell, and Jordan all excel in their character roles, especially when the powers extend to unbelievable and astounding heights. The extension of the powers instilled include flying and involvement with things dangerous and brutally destructive .Though the ending is slightly overkill, the potent and provocative journey this movie brings to the audience is one that never stops springing surprises. You’ll be hooked once you see it!