Review – The Chernobyl Diaries

Obnoxious, quarrelsome twentysomethings pay for a guided tour of the reactor-leak-ravaged ghost city of Chernobyl, where naturally they end up in a life-and-death struggle with irradiated mutants. So this could either have been an awesome use of a creepy location for a well-planned creature feature, or it could have been yet another feature-length parade of obnoxious twentysomethings quarreling with each other. Any guesses as to which path the filmmakers chose? A damn shame, too, because some of the effects shots early in the picture suggested that they could have made a good monster movie if they’d been inclined to do so. See if desperate