If you're unaware on chernoybl which everybody should be a aware of it, a couple of people that I encountered today didn't know what chernobyl was and I had to explain to them what it was.
It was an event that happened in 1978 that involved a nuclear power plant in chernobyl blowing up and causing all the citizens to flea for their lifes leaving all the possessions, just anything that they could grab quickly. A housing estate that hosted 1500 hundred, most of the citziens escape but some were left to either die or get exposed to the radition and mutanting in some sick and horrible way.
This is where chernoybl diaries comes in, a group of tourists are visiting the great monuments of the world and as they're in russia visiting one of the members brothers, The brother suggests visiting the land that has never been forgotten about but nevee visited. Chernoybl.
As they visit the dead silent town of chernoybl they realise that they aren't alone, they came across bears, dogs and a some spesics that i'm assuming can only be created with the assistance of radition. The creatures were like the characters off timesplitter future perfect, they were cows with open cactus's revealing all their intestines. I'll put a picture at the bottom to show what these characters were like.
When i've seen pictures of people who escaped chernobyl and the cause of the radition caused them to grow an extra limb or an extra body part. These kind of people, there personalitys were the same but with an added limb well these characters wouldn't have made the film. The people that didn't escape would turn into complete ripping apart the flesh and get in on the good stuff, these people were ravagness beasts that wouldn't stop at nothing.
The characters
I won't spoil anything but the characters with an undeveloped back story die. The brother got the idea to go to chernoybl was by a russian extreme tourist guider called ura was the first to die and he was a very nice characterr and not like a traditional thriller movie were the mean people would be the first to die. I'll be honest I didn't think he'd be dying first, his character was very nicely portrayed on the rest of the group members.
The girl in this film was the most developed character out of them, she was willing to give adventure a try, she was the only professional photography.
There's another girl that's not the professonal photography but I honestly think she was only there for the lads. Pre chernoybl the girl must have had her boobs in every shot and every scene and let's just say they took my mind of what was going on.
The order of which the characters was kinda predictble, I knew that the hiker's wouldn't have survived since they were only add on characters that tagged along on the trip.
The camera wasn't anything special, it's a standard POV camera, the same camera that they've used in the likes of cloverfield, chronicle and project x except the camera man had nothing to do with the cast, just like saving private ryan.
One of the shots that I found idiotic was when the people were getting attacked inside their van the camera man was on the outside of it leaving the camera man exposed to all the violence but as I said the camera man had nothing to do with any of the cast members.
I'll talk about POV camera more in one single blog because those types of cameras really bug me.
The suspense was brilliant and well reserved for those bits in the film it was needed. Ura puts his hand into the river and pretends to get bitten by something and this caused a few people in the audience to jump which was well received by the audience.
Just two days I wasn't looking forward to this film at all, I saw it advertised but never really took notice until I was told I was watching it and I watched the trailer of the film and even the trailer amazed me by how scary the entire film could be and the film lived up to that promise.
I'm giving it 8 out of 10.
One reason why it's not a 10 is because the camera... I really don't like the camera. Originally I gave this film a 7 out of 10 but thinking about the entire film, I think they should have increased the duration of the film because it was that good.
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