The one good thing I can say about Chernobyl Diaries: Jesse McCartney was not as horrible of an actor as he usually is. But...that's about all that's "shocking" in this not-so-horrific horror movie.
It's sad too because there's so much to work with here! Scripted by the same writer who wrote Paranormal Activity, the movie Chernobyl Diaries falls short of expectations of what a good, scary movie should be like, but also of any post-disaster film that's based on a true event.
The main story line is predictable and we've all seen it a zillion times:
Group of college-aged adults go somewhere secluded to find that it isn't so secluded after all aaaaand they all end up dead.
A little more specifically, these kids are going to see the city of Chernobyl, or what's left of it to take pictures and just basically check it out. They take some ho-dunk tour given by a local man with a shitty van.
Good plan, right?
Here's a clip of the tour guide finding something he didn't expect to in a supposedly abandoned building in Chernobyl:
Well, he shows them around and who would of thought...he ends up dying leaving them to fend for themselves in this not-so-abandoned chemically infested wasteland of what used to be Chernobyl.
The biggest downfall of this movie besides the constantly overused plotline is the disappointing and almost nonexistent images of the "mutants" that still reside in the town. Even now I am researching for even just one photo of them or a short clip and there's none to be found.
This is the only picture I found and it's the only inhabitant of Chernobyl that we didn't get to witness her face.
In the movie, the only shots of the mutants were very short, sparse, and in the pitch dark. Disappointed doesn't begin to describe my feelings when leaving the theater after seeing this one.
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