Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 26% (Critics) / 46% (Audience)
Directed By: Bradley Parker
Written By: Oren Peli, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke
Starring: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski and Olivia Dudley
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.
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The Good:
For the most part I liked the doomed group of tourists which is not something I usually experience in these types of movies in recent times. Too many of them tend to spend no time developing the characters in these movies enough so that the audience actually gives a rat’s ass when bad things start happening to them.
There were also some pretty nifty moments of direction where it felt like the audience was one of the members of the extreme tour group.

The Bad:
I’m not one of those people that needs to have everything explained to me or to be shown every detail of a horror movie but the constant vagueness in this movie was just ridiculous. I don’t think there was one clear shot of any of the radioactive baddies in this film that lasted more than a millisecond. And once the big reveal was done to show the audience what the hell was going on all it did was open up more questions that I am not really all that sure I care about whether they are answered or not.

The Ugly:
What was the point of the bear?

Final Verdict: Not nearly as tense or as scary as it should have been, CHERNOBYL DIARIES is not totally without its merits (likeable characters, interesting setting/setup) but also not worth treking to a movie theater to see it either. C-