Found footage films have gotten a bad rap over the past year and this is not necessarily because the format is flawed but because the format is being used poorly by bad movies. This is not the case with CHRONICLE, a smart, fun, lean and mean twist on a superhero movie.

Both the superhero origin story and the found footage film have each been done so often - and, frankly, so poorly - that the idea of yet another attempt at each barely registers on the Richter scale of interest. Yet somehow a movie that is both a found footage movie and a superhero origin story manages to inject new and exciting life in each genre.

As the tagline goes, the film subverts the old Uncle Ben maxim and watches what happens when with great power comes no responsibility.

I am still SO excited about this.  

(Source: danhacker)