Left Behind

This is just a poorly executed film from top to bottom. Zero redeeming qualities. Annoying characters and meandering to the thousandth degree.

Question-- Why waste so much time exploring a city you were desperate to leave the night before???

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 =(

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.

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!!!

There are a lot of ways in which this movie fails, but I want to point out this one in particular. Conflict between characters can be interesting when there are interesting points of view behind the conflict. This film, on the other hand, doesn't understand the use of conflict: the characters all just hate each other and bicker constantly. The movie tries to tell us these are friends and romantic partners, but what it shows us is a group of people that hate each other's guts, and not in an interesting way. Their bickering never advances the plot; it's usually just about whether they'll keep walking or stop for the night, and there's no difference between these options that we, as audience members, should care about.

Without a particularly interesting premise or compelling characters, this flaw sinks the movie from "nothing of interest" to "actually grating".