Armond White's Chronicle review

So.... I'm confused by this review. I can't really get a sense if this is positive or negative.

So.... I'm confused by this review. I can't really get a sense if this is positive or negative.

I'm the ultimate AW translator. Its a negative review. Do you want a more in depth translation?

One more day!

But, he spends most of the review talking about the film positively except for the last two paragraphs.

Well, at least until the final act…

Almost as if the project was subject to a hostile takeover by Michael Bay, Chronicle goes so garishly gangbusters in its final third, you’d be forgiven for reaching for a pair of 3D glasses. This toneless transition completely maligns the tact and playfulness of what preceded it, while the film’s insistence that all the phantasmagorical action be caught on actual cameras forces us to watch a mish-mash of CCTV feeds, phone cameras and news broadcasts (not to mention a few shots I can only conclude were conjured out of thin air). It’s shambolic, to say the least, not only because it’s a sequence better suited to conventional filming practices, but also because it’s a sequence better suited to a bigger budgeted movie, one that can afford flying effects that are the slightest bit convincing.

Ultimately, it’s hard to fault Trank for his ambition, but the same can’t be said for his directorial decisions. With Chronicle, he’s a visionary at odds with his own vision, trying to create something that is intimately epic, not to mention conventionally unconventional — all on a budget James Cameron would consider lunch money. Still, rather than cautiously testing the waters like other first-timers, Trank has jumped in head first, determined to make a splash. Yes, he’s created a bit of a mess in the process, but you just know that when he eventually resurfaces, Hollywood will be the ones holding the towel.

Sounds like he's in between but its Armond White

It must have something to do with the third act from what i gathered from this review.

So.... I'm confused by this review. I can't really get a sense if this is positive or negative.

Hmmmm... That interesting, because I've heard that the best parts of the film is the 3rd act.



Either way, I'm seeing it tomorrow night.

i watched it....it starts off weak, gets decent in the middle and then falls flat at the end

and i wanted this to be good its 3/5 AT BEST

3rd act is dumb......i guess it was needed or their would be no villians but the whole time i was like meh.....

if armonds review is really negative it typically becomes a midnight screening for me. this, ill catch sometime over the weekend

you enjoy watching bad movies.

sorry i dont see eye to eye with him on the genius of jack & jill

i'll just say this....i almost walked out after what happen to my boy wallace plus the main characters suck.......

andrew- social outcast.....loser......!! always carrying the camera

steve- cool popular kid who somehow doesnt mind chilling with lames, and the only liekable charcter

matt- andrew's cousin who hangs out with andrew because...well...its his cousin and he feels dorry for the loser.....he's more popular then andrew but less popular then steve, he consstsntly tries to talk about philosopy and tries to seem smarter then he really is for whatever reason....




and the whole super hero vs super villian aspect was WEAK especially with the scene where andrew is looking at a spider and then elevates the spider and rips him for no reason since he feels he has aapex predator now

and i think i would have enjoyed this move more if it was just a straight up movie and not a movie seen entirely through several camera/video recorder lens..especially at the end with the fight scene its hard to keep your eyes on whats happening when its !!s from camera from a helicopter...camera shot from a cop car....camera shots for that blonde girls camera

at one point i was like...i see andrew and matt fighting but i cant tell which is which and its harder to keep up with it, not because its fast but because its sloppy


and another thing, the Andrew charcter is extremly unlikable which i guess they did on purpose but instead of robbing a store like the dumbhe is he could have just flew to every atm in the nearest location and basically cracked it open and took the money out no one would have got hurt and he would have got what he needed



and the ending.......smh..i get it...you can fly but how the fukk do you fly that far without getting tired....your not superman matt, i loved when matt said "you made it bro..you made it", someone in the back yelled "man sukk a dikk" and the entire theater broke out laughing


this is a straight to dvd or syfy channel movie.....there wasnt !! epic about this movie, it was just alright

3/5