Diaries repeats every bad trick in the book

Chernobyl Diaries (15)

HH

Dir: Bradley Parker

With: Jesse McCartney, Olivia Dudley, Jonathan Sadowski

Running time: 87 minutes

DESPITE the silly amount of money it makes from them, cinema is awfully mean to young people. When not portraying them as hoodies you'd not want to hug (Ben Drew's recent Ill Manors), or callow and sex-obsessed (American Pie and every other teen comedy), film-makers like nothing more than taking a group of youthful sorts and scaring the skinny jeans off them.

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