A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
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Nate H. parašė atsiliepimą apie Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
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Chernobyl Diaries plays like a found footage movie that isn’t actually a found footage movie. It is shot like one, with lots of choppy camera movements, barely seen baddies in the darkness, and camera angles shot from a first person perspective. All of this is an interesting attempt to capture the creepy feeling of the best of the genre. I will give it one thing: The setting of Chernobyl for a film like this is ideal (even if it is not the real Chernobyl). The ghost town plays its part well. Its empty streets and buildings almost seem to breathe on their own, exuding a sinister sense of foreboding as our heroes (I use that word loosely) make their way into its bowels. Since I mentioned the protagonists, I should also mention there is not much to the plot here. Some dumb westerners decides it’s a good idea to get a private (and illegal) tour of the condemned nuclear power plant and city that surrounds it. They get stuck, of course, and come nightfall things start to go very badly for them. And for viewers as well. Despite all the creepiness of this film’s setting, the events that transpire don’t live up to its potential and ultimately it is all kind of boring.
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