After Chernobyl (I) (2021)
2/10
Move along folks, nothing to see here...
19 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Idiots go on a road trip. Idiots can't read a map and get lost. Idiots get their vehicle stuck. Idiots abandon the vehicle and head off with absolutely no idea where they're going. Idiots argue. Idiots fight. Idiots get drunk while lost in the forest. One member of the group mysteriously goes missing, and no one seems particularly concerned for quite some time.

This is the same basic premise as in about a thousand other horror movies that I've seen. None of the characters get along. None of the characters are even remotely likeable. For people who are supposed to be family, friends, and sweethearts, they bicker and fight almost constantly. Before the movie was a third of the way over, I was practically praying for each character to get picked off and killed.

The actress playing the female lead spends more time hysterically screaming her lines than she does speaking in a normal voice. It's a found footage movie, so there is the requisite, annoying, blurry, poorly lit footage featured in almost every found footage movie ever. We have flashbacks interspersed with current actions in the movie to give us glimpses into the lives of the characters prior to their misadventure. It doesn't help. They're all shrill, shallow cretins.

This is basically an inferior version of "The Chernobyl Diaries". There is nothing new, nothing remotely imaginative. It's the same old tired cliches in yet another disappointing movie. Do yourself a favor; move along, folks; nothing new to see here.
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