The real question is, is this film more offensive to Russians than Blair Witch Project was to witches?

It would be a better origin for the rebooted Ninja Turtles than Michael Bay is providing.

Large portions of Europe were affected, too, not just Russians. I remember hearing about England "waiting for the cloud".

But yeah, mostly this film is just dumb.

someone please make the WTF 911 zombie film NOW.

Why do 3/5 of commenters above seem to think the Chernobyl disaster happened in Russia?

@Geyser - Because they're right? It's the Ukraine now, but it was part of the Soviet Union until 1991. The Chernobyl disaster was in 1986.

At least, this is what Wikipedia tells me....

Yes, it was in the Soviet Union, but not in Russia. Those two aren't the same thing, nor are Ukraine and Russia interchangeable. During the Cold War, I used to sometimes hear people say "the Russians" etc. as shorthand for the Soviet Union as a whole, but it seemed especially odd here to see "Russia" used to refer to a specific event that happened in the Ukrainian republic, so I just wondered if the Chernobyl thing had been largely forgotten or something (I mostly see it invoked only in a vague metaphorical way).

I was mainly offended by the use of the Cyrillic "backward R" as a stand-in for a normal Latin R. I'm tired of that.

Im not Russian, but if I was, I would be quite offended by this movie, especially since it deals with a moment that haunts its victims till this day. First introduced to the event in high school, I was shocked to see the after effects of such a catastrophe. All the children being born with missing body parts, the agony they were all in. It was quite traumatizing. To even think about making a horror film that uses a location where tragedy once took place kinda makes me want to throw up. It simply allows me to see that there are people out there, who truly sustain tainted minds. Minds that would film anything in order to grab any little attention possible. Money drives people yes indeed, but there should be a limit to filming certain delicate and tragic events. I honestly would rather see a documentary on Chernobyl, than the depiction of some mockery.