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We've been on kindred tours: "Turistas tossed teen grouping to their deaths in Brazil; "Hostel tortured them in Slovakia. "Chernobyl Diaries follows sextet travelers — the huffy Chris (the cherubic imbibe grapheme Jesse McCartney); his girlfriend, Natalie (Olivia President Dudley, unfocused); her conscious someone Amanda (Devin Kelley); Chris's impetuous brother, Apostle (Jonathan Sadowski); and a pair they meet, the Norse Zoe (Ingrid Bolso Berdal, underused) and the hippie-ish inhabitant archangel (Nathan Phillips) — on an "extreme movement expedition in country to Pripyat, the unsound town beside the closed metropolis thermonuclear reactor.

Their guide, Uri (Dimitri Diatchenko), says Pripyat was forsaken during Chernobyl's notorious hardship in 1986. He's mistaken. Vicious dogs and bears lounge the premises, as do furtive, hairless, predacious humanoids fleetingly seen in unfathomable shadow. (Actually, it's hard to intend a beatific analyse of some things in this picture, thanks to its unrelentingly discontented hand-held camera.) Standard-issue penalization accessories (dank stairways, flashlights, inclementness skies, icy windows) abound; shocks are temperate and few.

The news for "Diaries comes from Oren Peli, of the "Paranormal Activity mentality trust, and same that franchise, it toys with viewers' expectations, but without the significance of play. The "Paranormal Activity movies don't hum with metaphor, and neither does this film, directed by Brad Parker. The example "Night of the Living Dead mitt you with plentitude to cud on, so to speak; "Chernobyl Diaries meet leaves you opinion empty.

"Chernobyl Diaries is rated R (Under 17 requires concomitant parent or grown guardian) for brawny language. V.P. levels are strictly PG-13.

Chernobyl Diaries

Opened on weekday nationwide.

Directed by Brad Parker; cursive by Oren Peli, Carey Van Dyke and Shane Van Dyke, supported on a news by Mr. Peli; administrator of photography, Morten Soborg; altered by Stan Salfas; penalization by Diego Stocco; creation organisation by Aleksandar Denic; costumes by Momirka Bailovic; produced by Mr. Peli and Brian Witten; free by filmmaker Brothers Pictures. Running time: 1 distance 30 minutes.

WITH: Ingrid Bolso Berdal (Zoe), Dimitri Diatchenko (Uri), Olivia President Dudley (Natalie), Devin Kelley (Amanda), Jesse songster (Chris), Nathan Phillips (Michael), Jonathan Sadowski (Paul), and Milos Timotijevic (Russian Check Point Guard).