Review of Chronicle (2012) by Bence L — 29 Mar 2015
Found footage is now a business model exclusively and this horrible thing makes it extremely obvious. Whole plot devices are crafted merely as an alibi for cameras being around in the most implausible situations to accidentally set up a perfect OTS shot.
Being limited in telling a story, when everything needs to fit into a situation with some kind of camera around, the directors elegant solution of course is to convert 85% of the unimaginative dialog into exposition, spoon-feeding you the two dimensional, infantile melodrama, leaving 10% to explain the camera presence in some way and adding 5% of irritating bull crap that I guess the writers thought modern teenagers would say when behaving naturally.
They wouldn't. For action there is no time.
This review of Chronicle (2012) was written by Bence L on 29 Mar 2015.
Chronicle has generally received positive reviews.
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