Avery Reviews a Thing: Chernobyl Diaries

If you know me in real life, you know that I am an avid go-to-the-movies-every-weekender. I figure based on the sheer amount of movies and books I consume (obviously not literally) and because I struggle with posting things, I could review some of them.
So, just pretend that's there's some kind of jingle that goes along with "Avery Reviews a Thing" and let's get on with it.
Let's start with the short list: what I liked.
Chernobyl Diaries (henceforth CD for efficiency) is set in an absolutely stunning setting. I love the look of derelict building and CD does not disappoint, set against the town of Pripyat. Every scene in that movie is absolutely gorgeous and creepy to the extent of goose bumps.
I found two of the characters likable, Chris (played by Jesse McCartney) and Uri (played by Dimitri Diatchenko). Chris was pleasant and adorable, as Jesse usually is, and I felt he deserved much more screen time than he was allotted.Uri had a beautiful accent and embraced all Russian stereotypes which I found pleasing in this movie.
Now for the things I didn't like.
Let me start with the one that jumps out most obviously to me: the camerawork. It was like a Bourne movie all over again. The camera man was shaky the entire movie and it was hard to focus on anything but how annoying it was.
All of the characters other the two mentioned above that I found likable. They were flat, boring stereotypes and the girls were disappointingly weak, even Amanda, the main female. I never got the feeling that Paul, Chris's brother, cared all that much.
Along the same line, the "monsters" or "patients" or whatever they were didn't scare me at all. In fact, every time someone was grabbed by them, I got the vibe that they were going to have a dance party and get high or something (I have not idea why these thoughts popped in my head when I was watching the movie but they did). I was never really that scared of them and was confused why the characters found them so scary.
Finally, the slaughtering. I found it odd that almost everyone survived up until the end. The entire movie was basically the build up to everyone's death. I didn't like the pacing, basically.
Overall: two out of five exploding nuclear reactors (stars are so over rated, after all).