Directed By: Josh Trank
Starring: Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, and Michael B. Jordan
Chronicle Movie Summary
Bullied loner Andrew Detmer starts videotaping his life.
Andrew’s cousin Matt invites him to a party where he is persuaded by popular student Steve to record something that he and Matt found in the woods. The trio finds something mysterious. A couple weeks later the trio record themselves as they display telekinetic abilities. They soon bond over developing their new found powers. Andrew soon starts wondering what it might be like to be the one who holds the threat of violence over others. The boys soon learn they are able to use the telekinesis for flight.
Andrew eventually enters a talent competition at school with Steve. They secretly use their powers to easily win. They go to a party afterwards and Andrew is propositioned by a woman who leads him to a bedroom. He pukes on himself and is humiliated.
More depressed and angry than ever Andrew uses his powers to stop his increasingly abusive father from attacking him, ever as his sick mother keeps taking turns for the worse. His outburst is so extreme it catches Steve’s attention. Steve flies up to Andrew in the middle of a storm and is struck by lightning and dies.
Andrew grows more distant. Andrew begins to identify as an apex predator,which rationalizes his use of powers on all those weaker than him, which is starting to look like everyone. ANdrew eventually has to steal money for medication for his mother, and he gets injured and is in the hospital where his father informs him his mother is died, and he blames Andrew for her death Andrew opens his eyes and the walls of his hospital room explodes.
Matt senses Andrew is in trouble. He finds and confronts Andrew in a battle in downtown Seattle that shows the extent to which their powers have grown. Andrew is out of control and is intent on destroying everything. Only one person will come out alive!
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