CHRONICLE

A short and enjoyable movie about 3 teens who discover a hole in the ground and during their explorations of the cave (because naturally they had to descend into the hole) they came into contact with a large swirling amalgam of light which they touched.

This led to extraordinary powers mainly involving making things and themselves levitate and fly and moving objects and people. The next part of the movie following their awareness of these powers was the most fun for me. They gradually tested the limits of their newfound abilities and played pranks on other people (like moving a lady's car to another parking spot in the lot  while she was shopping) and the segment which showed them all flying high above the clouds and playing football and almost getting clipped by a jet was very entertaining.

However, shortly after this the powers started to be used to get even and for revenge by Andrew, the shyest and most withdrawn teen who had a dying mom and an abusive dad. Andrew turned out to have a very dark side; swirling mounds of violence that had probably been repressed for years. And what sets him off is not having the money to pay for his mom's pain medicine. as an aside, the copay was over $700.

So the rest of the film was all mayhem as Andrew blew up buildings, overturned cop cars, killed hospital personnel; just went out of control. Andrew had already killed one of the group and the remaining member caused a spear from a statue to skewer Andrew.

The very ending became even stupider as the survivor went to Tibet which is where andrew (in happier days) wanted them all to fly to and  this friend filmed himself in front of very obviously Dollar Tree quality calendar pictures of mountain ranges and temples. He told Andrew he loved him and that he was going to do good with his life.

A lot of the movie especially in the beginning was shot in a Blair witch hurly-gurly shaky-man fashion which made me dizzy. But except for the last 1/4th of the movie i enjoyed it. It also helped that the admission price for Bill and I was only $4.