The interesting part of this movie is to see how the Soviets see things as opposed to the western world (which we've seen in HBO's Chernobyl).
All government officials are amazing, helpful and only care about the well being of the country and its citizens. Seems somewhat unbelievable...
Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 [RUSSIAN]
Action / Comedy / Drama / History / Romance
Plot summary
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
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July 05, 2021 at 08:19 PM
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Soviet Propaganda
A cheap imitation of the vastly superior HBO Series
No spoilers here, but if you want to watch a movie about Chernobyl.. don't waste your time. Every event, and the timeline itself, is fabricated. There's not an ounce of historical truth here, but plenty of made up drama. Skip, and watch the vastly, vastly superior HBO Series.
Boiling soup on brittle bones...
This 2021 movie titled "Chernobyl" (aka "Chernobyl: Abyss") actually felt like a very, very unnecessary movie to have been made. Why? Well, because the story has been told many times before in other movies or TV series, and often with more impact and entertainment value.
Well sure, I will say that if you haven't seen other movies or TV series that deal with the tragedy that took place with the Chernobyl power plant, then sure this 2021 movie will provide adequate, if not actually good, entertainment. I will give that much credit to writers
Elena Ivanova and Aleksey Kazakov, sure.
The storyline told in "Chernobyl" was one that I was well familiar with already, as I am no newcomer to movies or TV series that depict the events that took place on April 26th, 1986, and the aftermath in its wake. So because of that, then this 2021 movie felt sort of obsolete and wholly unnecessary.
The acting in the movie was good, and I can't claim to be familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, as I am not well-traversed in the Russian cinema. But the people cast for the various roles definitely did good jobs in bringing the characters to life.
And the atmosphere in the movie was definitely good as well, adding a lot to the movie in overall.
My rating of director Danila Kozlovskiy's 2021 movie "Chernobyl" lands on a very bland and mediocre five out of ten stars. This was definitely a watchable movie, but for us that are already well-familiar with cinematic representations of the accident, then this movie was just not delivering where it mattered.