Chronicle

Actors:  Dane Dehaan, Alex Russell, Michael B Jordan, Ashley Hinshaw, Michael Kelly
Rating:  8 out of 10, this movie was a lot of fun despite the annoying use of the documentary film motif where the characters are actually filming the action.  This is mitigated to a certain extent when they acquire their powers and can levitate the camera so it follows them.  I really liked how truthful it seemed.  If three adolescents suddenly acquired these superhuman abilities this is what they would do with them.  They’d blow girls’ skirts up, hit each other with rocks, and taken mediocre revenge against tormentors.  The three main leads were all very good and seemed to channel their high school years experience.  The special effects sneak up on you because they are played as nothing special – all of a sudden they’re flying- like it was no big thing.  That is the strength of the movie - the interplay between the young men as they struggle withier new god-like powers.  Jordan is someone to keep an eye on because he just oozed charisma which is what his character called for but all too often that comes across as arrogance – not here.  Dehaan is appropriately creepy as the one who eventually is corrupted by absolute power.  A movie I wasn’t expecting a lot from that delivered in spades – great watch. 
MVP:  Jordan as Steve Montgomery the charismatically doomed good guy