River Valley Review

Marvel’s last movie… concerning the Ghost Rider… we won’t speak of it. This movie sets out to redeem Marvel’s image and remind the audience why the company started making live action movies about its comic book characters in the first place. Why? Because the story material (decades worth) is already there, so are the characters. Combine that with the financial backing of Disney (who bought Marvel outright) and Paramount (who licensed “The Avengers”), and a there’s quite a bit of potential. 

Now, Marvel has been working up to this film release for years with others like “Iron Man,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor,” “The Incredible Hulk,” and “Captain America: The First Avenger.” With all the millions of dollars spent and made

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I apologize that this review comes late. You see, since I saw the film 72 hours ago, I’ve been vomiting nonstop. I feel now, that I can sit in front of a computer screen long enough to- 

………………………..false alarm.

Before beginning with our first category, allow me to say that Ghost Rider is my favorite Marvel comic book character. “Ghost Rider: Heaven’s on Fire” was the first comic book series I added to my collection. I love the series. Even though I’m a much bigger DC comics fan, I still take time to read anything Ghost Rider related. So, Marvel had some big shoes to fill with this film, especially after how badly they screwed up the first film.

With that said, let’s jump right into our first category.

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That’s right, for the unknown future, all movie reviews will be in written form again. The film in question this week? “Chronicle.” 

I’m still going to be using the same movie rating system as before where I break the film into four categories. That’s enough explanation of current events within the blog revamp, let’s get to the review of “Chronicle.”

Actors/Characters:

The three main characters in this film are written and portrayed brilliantly, which surprised me. Since the movie was set in high school, I had my reservations upon seeing the trailer. This especially worried me because of the character known as Andrew. He is a socially awkward teenager from a broken home.

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