This film revolves around the forbidden excursion of a group of students to an abandoned city near the old Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Everything goes well and the film manages to introduce the subject very well. Suddenly, things go wrong and the group becomes isolated and uncontactable in the middle of the city, while nightfall quickly and mysterious things seem to walk in the dark.It's a great idea for a horror movie, no doubt. Original, relatively little explored, the subject touches a situation well known to people. The big problem is that the script did not know how to properly exploit this, it develops well until the terror should begin to feel more intensely, and its at that moment that the script loses itself. After that, it develops in a hurried and predictable way, without scares or fear, in a relatively warm way. The end is disastrous. To make matters worse, the characters almost did not deserve psychological development, they are just meat for the kill. There are absolutely unlikely moments, and the creatures chasing the characters are absolutely rudimentary, undeveloped, and boring. The sound effects are quite elementary. The scenarios are the best of this film: they really can transport us to the original places and give the idea of ​​the drama that was the evacuation of the region around Chernobyl. The radiation issue is addressed, but its very undervalued and has little interest for the plot, which is bad. It could have been used in a smarter way, like all the rest of this film. This was a good idea, but the final product is very dumb.

well i always like the stories like this and if the good director and producer support it the movie will be one of the top rated and popular between users choosing some charm actor like Olivia Taylor Dudley or Jonathan Sadowski is nice but it's not enough to fill the weak Aspects of scripts and directing ...i think movies like this is better to made like Cloverfield and REC , and show the story from Camera in hand of character , it can cover weak FX and make it more rapturous at end if you like action & horror movies and see too many movies in week and month this movie can be good cause there are no too many movie in this genre but i never put this in my favorite archive and delete it right after see it

The town of Pripyat seems so real. This is really well done. And it adds to how real it feels when people start disappearing and something living in the abandoned city is out to get them.Excellent horror-movie. Well acted, believable characters, good story.And even though there is nothing threatening in Pripyat in real life apart from radiation, I still can't help thinking what if something is hiding in the buildings? One of the best horror-movies i've seen in a long time.I can definitely recommend this.That was 10 lines.

A reluctant group of American tourists are persuaded by their chancer buddy to join an extreme tour, led by a local commando, of a city abandoned 25 years earlier after a nuclear reactor disaster. They discover that radiation is not the only hazard ...Great idea for this, so the fact it follows a formula doesn't drain it of interest. The characters are established fairly well, with the actors obviously enjoying themselves, and the pace is good as we soon get inside the danger zone. But there's a steady decline in the quality of story telling following that. The first jump scare, involving a fish, is cocked up badly, which suggests inexperienced director, and that's repeated later on in a scene on a bus. Others have noted the stupidity of the decisions made by the characters, which takes you out of the story, and the characterisation peters out once the action gets heavy. Various aspects aren't explored properly, like the fish threat or the strangeness of Chernobyl's wildlife (eg. well documented that spiders there weave weird webs). And then you have the real threat, suggested with unspooky touches (photo of the window), that then comes to the fore in a rushed climax and twist. Not convincing, and I think they missed a trick in not emphasising the wildlife as a foretaste of the hell about to be unleashed.The camera is mostly 3rd person POV, breaking into 1st person occasionally, and I'm not sure how this affected the story. There is shaky cam, but not nauseating. The music was fine, not overbearing.Overall, the logline to this movie had lots of promise but they probably needed to rip up the screenplay a few more times.