Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This film revolves around the forbidden excursion of a group of students to an abandoned city near the old Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Everything goes well and the film manages to introduce the subject very well. Suddenly, things go wrong and the group becomes isolated and uncontactable in the middle of the city, while nightfall quickly and mysterious things seem to walk in the dark.It's a great idea for a horror movie, no doubt. Original, relatively little explored, the subject touches a situation well known to people. The big problem is that the script did not know how to properly exploit this, it develops well until the terror should begin to feel more intensely, and its at that moment that the script loses itself. After that, it develops in a hurried and predictable way, without scares or fear, in a relatively warm way. The end is disastrous. To make matters worse, the characters almost did not deserve psychological development, they are just meat for the kill. There are absolutely unlikely moments, and the creatures chasing the characters are absolutely rudimentary, undeveloped, and boring. The sound effects are quite elementary. The scenarios are the best of this film: they really can transport us to the original places and give the idea of ​​the drama that was the evacuation of the region around Chernobyl. The radiation issue is addressed, but its very undervalued and has little interest for the plot, which is bad. It could have been used in a smarter way, like all the rest of this film. This was a good idea, but the final product is very dumb.

I think the thing that first drew me to horror films is how, very often, things seem so happy and bright at the start...that you almost wonder how anything could go wrong for the characters at all.This is how The Chernobyl Diaries starts...although thanks to a great use of sound a sense of foreboding and dread slowly seeps in as the creepy events start to unfold.Let me be clear - this isn't a perfect film, and if it wasn't for the use of sound, I'd have probably given it a five star 'average' rating.The plot centres around a few characters who are travelling Europe, they head to Ukraine where a family member lives. He convinces them to go on an 'extreme tourism' excursion to the site of the Chernobyl tragedy.Needless to say, things go a little wrong and they soon find themselves in the supposedly deserted city overnight.The camera-work is varied - ranging from 'handicam' shots to 'found footage' from a digital camera. It can mean things are a tad disjointed in places - and, as with many low-budget films, the story has a few plot holes or stupid moments. However, I was able to overlook these as it's far from a boring film. There's always something going on and it keeps you guessing until near the end as to what the horror is.I appreciate different endings to different films - whether they be good or negative. However, I felt that the ending was a low point in the film - I won't spoil it for you of course, but if you're like me you'll spot it coming a mile off - and I did hold out a little hope that I might be wrong.

well i always like the stories like this and if the good director and producer support it the movie will be one of the top rated and popular between users choosing some charm actor like Olivia Taylor Dudley or Jonathan Sadowski is nice but it's not enough to fill the weak Aspects of scripts and directing ...i think movies like this is better to made like Cloverfield and REC , and show the story from Camera in hand of character , it can cover weak FX and make it more rapturous at end if you like action & horror movies and see too many movies in week and month this movie can be good cause there are no too many movie in this genre but i never put this in my favorite archive and delete it right after see it

The town of Pripyat seems so real. This is really well done. And it adds to how real it feels when people start disappearing and something living in the abandoned city is out to get them.Excellent horror-movie. Well acted, believable characters, good story.And even though there is nothing threatening in Pripyat in real life apart from radiation, I still can't help thinking what if something is hiding in the buildings? One of the best horror-movies i've seen in a long time.I can definitely recommend this.That was 10 lines.