Entertaining Platt: Chronicle

What's Eating Eric Lensherr?

Be warned: This is NOT a happy-go-lucky superhero movie in the tradition of Spider-Man.

Instead, Josh Trank’s Chronicle is dark, brooding, and uncompromising in the twists and turns that it takes. In moments that another movie might give us a chance of redemption, Chronicle just throws in another instance in which that opportunity is wrecked or rebuffed.

Although the found-footage routine is getting to be old hat, it works for this movie, especially during the third act when the sources become more varied than just the floating camera of our central character, Andrew Detmer (Dane Dahaan, channeling Leonardo DiCaprio from the Gilbert Grape era).

Beware of spoilers beyond the jump…