AboveDeepBuggy
Some things I liked some I did not.
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Jakoba
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Michael Ledo
The film opens up with all the excitement of watching your neighbor's vacation films...which is what we are doing. Two couples are touring Eurasia. Chris (Jesse McCartney) the sensible one, and Paul (Jonathan Sadowski) the wild man are brothers. There are two lovely young ladies with them, Amanda (Devin Kelley) and Natalie (Olivia Dudley). Paul hooks up with the proverbial Russian named Uri (Dimitri Diatchenko) who offers him a backdoor tour of the abandoned city of Chernobyl (Pripyat). Another couple joins them because seven people make for a better horror film than five...except in this case.While I was waiting for a scene out of "Hostel" or something interesting to happen, it didn't happen. Instead the van breaks down (it would be a quick movie if it didn't) and our group of tourists are stuck in a restricted area with no communication. The movie has that jittery hand held camera action to it, which I have grown to hate. To make the thrills cheaper, they turn out the lights and have everyone scream in terror. Oh, Chris has a boo-boo on his leg.Eventually the film budget allows them to use lighting and then they run the credits.F-bombs, no sex, no nudity.***Possible Plot Spoiler**** This film is similar to "Quarantine" in that you have to wait until the very end to get a glimpse of what is causing the terror. And by end, I mean followed by a credit roll.
am_gh-03573
The movie is absolutely meaningless and the way they were killed was convincing enough and I think this was one of the worst horror movies to be made.
cameronklein-44312
Contrary to all the terrible reviews on this movie, I decided to watch it and boy was I suprised. I had never heard of any of the actors but they all did a very good job portraying beliveable relatable characters. I also found the way they portray the "danger" in this movie to be quite suspecful, they dont show the real threat much so it keeps you on the edge of your seat. This movie has a few cheap jumpscares but other than that it is a quite fun horror movie. Highly recommended.
DBLurker
Chernobyl, Pripyat, the whole area in real life is tailor made for delivering really good horror/suspense, like STALKER game did and Stalker movie years before the game.Instead of coming up with something new and actually scary, Chernobyl Diaries (CD) instead tries to mix Descent with The Hills Have Eyes (except with comically bad monster masks from Halloween store) and fails to give you horror and thrills of either of the movies it is trying to rip-off.While the movie started out fine, with tourists stuck in the hell-hole of Pripyat, the moment it actually starts delivering the "scares", you can kiss all atmosphere goodbye.The director first throws a bear at you for a cheap jump scare, then dogs, yes DOGS, simple dogs which are just hungry.. then they bring out the cliché-fest of cannibals. And they fail at using any of them to actually scare the audience. In-fact, the cannibals apparently spend their time standing in darkness camping and waiting for camera to face them so they can pull a tourist back trying to jump "scare" the audience. They do that till the last shot (last shot is a jump "scare" as well). This is a movie made by someone who thinks jump "scares" are actually scary and not startling.Lemme put it this way. I was expecting Blair Witch like psychological horror set in Chernobyl, but I got hilariously bad "horror" similar to the overrated comedy-horror movies like Insidious and Paranormal Activity (I think PA is actually scarier than this movie haha). This was just bad.This movie is so disappointing that while writing this review, I lowered my score from 3/10 to 1/10.So watch it if you like being disappointed. This movie delivers on that front.
