Normally I really can't imaging that a horror movie can put you to
sleep but with this movie I can definitely understand how it can put
someone to sleep. It's hard to stay awake during this movie really,
since there really isn't all that much going on in it.
Guess that everybody can make a horror movie, the same way this one got
made. It's an extremely cheaply shot and made movie and relies purely
on its locations. But if you are a bit familiar with the Chernobyl area
and its history, you know that everything in this movie is basically
being a bunch of nonsense and the movie doesn't exactly do a good job
at making it all remotely believable.
Basically all this movie features is a bunch of people walking around
in the abandoned city of Pripyat. And really, that is about all there
is to this movie. A bunch of people walking around, without anything
happening, for the longest time. Horrorwise it's such an extremely
lacking movie, though its concept still might sound good and
interesting on paper to you. In that regard this movie is also being
some real wasted potential and it's just too much of a totally
uninspired movie, without any original- or just simply good ideas in
it.
Really, the movie could had used a clear main villain or monster in it.
It would had kept the movie still formulaic but at least it would had
made things somewhat exciting and good to watch. Besides, it could had
remotely pleased some of the horror fans but now there is absolutely
nothing to enjoy for them. No blood, no gore, no original or good
killings, no good monster/villains, no scares, no tension, no nothing!
I don't even really know what to make of this movie. It seemed like it
was going somewhat for a found footage type of approach. It's filled
with shaky cams and is showing the stuff from the perspective of the
characters, at all time but no one in this movie ever gets identified
as the girl or guy with the camera and the camera also keeps on
changing positions, so it doesn't even make sense all, if it truly
wanted to be taken as a found footage genre movie. I don't know, it
just confused me all but it seems to me that this approach was simply
picked because it was the most cheap and simple way to make the movie.
Another thing that makes this movie bad to watch is that you never feel
for any of its characters. Really no one is developed- or likable
enough and I don't even know who is who in this movie exactly. Thing
that perhaps also makes them far from likable is because they make some
stupid discussions throughout the entire movie, that also don't help to
make this movie a more credible one.
It is true that I have seen worse genre movies and this one didn't
angered or annoyed me all that much, which is the one and only reason
why I'm still giving it a 'mild' rating. But seriously, there is no
good reason why anyone should ever watch this movie!
4/10
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