Wonderful Movie

So much average

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The premise of the movie is no different the movies The Hills have Eyes and The Hills have Eyes 2. People that are living in an area contaminated by radiation. Find people in there area. Abduct them at night. Kill some for food. And maybe even use the women for reproduction. Non affected Russians/Ukraine's know of the people and cover up their being at Chernobyl and any survivors are then thrown to them to get rid of evidence.A Very close plot to the Hills Have Eyes but at Chernobyl. I feel could have been better by showing the animals also have mutated. None of the animals seemed to have been affected by the radiation but the humans/fish have.

Chernobyl Diaries is an effective horror film that provides an ample amount of scares. I don't really get the bad reviews for the movie, I thought it did its job well, and accomplished what it set out for. The movie's mission is to scare the audience and do it in an effective way. The atmosphere in the movie is a big factor in the scariness factor, the creepy, dark atmosphere amped up the scare factor and I thought it did it well. The movie does not actually show you what is after them until towards the very end. I don't think the film is as good as some others, such as insidious or paranormal activity, but I do think, if you like watching horror flicks, then this is definitely worth a watch. The jump scares worked and weren't too cheesy or predictable in my opinion. Jesse McCartney filled his starring role well and I enjoyed seeing him perform on screen, I also think he worked well with his co-stars, had good chemistry with everyone. The ending was a little surprising to me, I was not really expecting it, and I liked how it ended, it wasn't a sunshine and rainbows ending, but it was very eerie and scary. The ending is one of those where you think you can trust some people, but oops, ends up, no you cannot. It's an intriguing ending. 7/10.

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.

A reluctant group of American tourists are persuaded by their chancer buddy to join an extreme tour, led by a local commando, of a city abandoned 25 years earlier after a nuclear reactor disaster. They discover that radiation is not the only hazard ...Great idea for this, so the fact it follows a formula doesn't drain it of interest. The characters are established fairly well, with the actors obviously enjoying themselves, and the pace is good as we soon get inside the danger zone. But there's a steady decline in the quality of story telling following that. The first jump scare, involving a fish, is cocked up badly, which suggests inexperienced director, and that's repeated later on in a scene on a bus. Others have noted the stupidity of the decisions made by the characters, which takes you out of the story, and the characterisation peters out once the action gets heavy. Various aspects aren't explored properly, like the fish threat or the strangeness of Chernobyl's wildlife (eg. well documented that spiders there weave weird webs). And then you have the real threat, suggested with unspooky touches (photo of the window), that then comes to the fore in a rushed climax and twist. Not convincing, and I think they missed a trick in not emphasising the wildlife as a foretaste of the hell about to be unleashed.The camera is mostly 3rd person POV, breaking into 1st person occasionally, and I'm not sure how this affected the story. There is shaky cam, but not nauseating. The music was fine, not overbearing.Overall, the logline to this movie had lots of promise but they probably needed to rip up the screenplay a few more times.