Left Behind

This movie is a worse disaster than the actual Chernobyl Meltdown itself!!! Where should I begin, well the fact that these nitwits are in Russia and somehow stumble into Ukraine and manage to then unwittingly stumble into the EXCLUSION ZONE which seems to be almost totally unguarded!!! Then the whole nonsense of having both radiated survivors AND the ghosts of dead radiation victims come after them!?!?!? Give me a frigging break!

The writing is totally amateurish with unbelievable lines delivered by some of the worst actors to ever appear in a movie!!! The plotline seems to portray these idiots as too stupid to put two and two together and realize that an abandoned CITY in Ukraine is the site of the Chernobyl Meltdown Site.....Duh!!!

As a "Chernobophile" I rated this garbage 2 stars instead of 1 because they actually filmed in Pripyat, which is always fascinating to see, although I should have watched with the sound off. It boggles the mind how little sense this film makes. After 90 minutes I still didn't quite understand who the characters were or what they were doing together, but that's ok because I didn't care about a single one anyway. Zeno dialogue reflected what actual humans would say in any given situation. The characters seem to exist in an bizarro world in which hiding involves screaming and swearing at each other and the way of escaping a dangerous place is to keep entering the sketchiest of nooks and death traps rather than following a road or attempting to cover ground during daylight. The spooky imagery of Chernobyl (the only worthwhile aspect of the film) is nothing that can't be viewed by executing a simple Google search.

It's not at all difficult to express why this movie was so terribly bad. Everything about it from the very beginning to the very end was absolutely horrendously awful. The supposed "Americans" spoke with such poorly done American accents that they sounded drunk or on some kind of downers. It was actually pathetic. The actors screamed and yelled more than anything, which was beyond annoying! Truly one of the worst portrayals of Americans I have ever seen performed by foreign actors. There was no story, and the scenes made no sense. Why the characters got themselves into the situations they were in was never explained and it probably couldn't be. This film was obviously just a way to pit down Americans by people who quite simply hate them. The film makers might as well have just made a movie called "Americans are ignorant, drunk, and angry people." It would have been more entertaining than this 1 hour and 24 minute long statement of disgust. What an awful movie. Nothing about it was good.

The movie had some positives: I like the setting (ie the abandoned Chernobyl city), a few of the scenes are creepy, and the movie is shot in a grainy manner that works well.

The biggest problem, by far, is that characters are not likable. On the contrary, the characters get so annoying because they just keep arguing and bickering with each non stop. By the time I reached the 40-minute mark, I was ready to turn this movie off because the characters were getting under my skin.

I have never wanted everyone in a horror movie, to be killed off after the first 20 mins of watching, just so they would shut the hell up. I actually feel bad for the cast, because now when anyone sees them in anything else, they will be remembered as the completely annoying people from this terrible movie =(