It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

These days EVERYBODY has some vague idea of what the Chernobyl disaster is, so I won't spend a bunch of time explaining. Basically it was the meltdown of a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, resulting in the town of Chernobyl being evacuated and known for being one of the world's deadliest places.Sounds like something straight out of a horror movie, right? Well, as disturbing as the accident itself was, the effects on the victims of Chernobyl, mainly children, is far more sad than scary.Radiation can cause everything from cancer to poisoning to cerebral palsy to adverse mutations. Chernobyl Heart shows this, how good people have had their lives changed badly by this horrible tragedy. Many of the children affected are orphans, abandoned because of their birth defects. It's extremely sad but an unfortunate truth. The strange thing is, Ukraine is not a bad place, neither was Chernobyl, this is just a result of human error. The same thing could happen in Canada, China, the United States, Great Britain, anywhere.But Chernobyl Heart offers a light at the end of the tunnel. These children are no longer just "victims", they now have a voice.Recently the 2012 horror movie Chernobyl Diaries came out, and it was a disgusting and inaccurate representation of a town where people once were happy, decent, hardworking human beings. Chernobyl is not a horror story, and this amazing documentary tells the honest truth of the matter. I definitely recommend it, it's totally worth your time.

Chernobyl was a tragic event, caused by human error, and a very poor design (The reactors had no containment buildings, just 1 major example!). Not mentioned in the movie, how much pollution is really there. There are many more pollutants than just radioactive materials, all much more mutanogenic than the radioactive ones. Moreover, the narrator just cites the nuclear disaster as the cause. This is at a time when nuclear power is necessary to our economy.The birth defects shown are horrific and tragic, and all very heart wrenching, but truly how many children are effected? There are 1,000's of birth defects in the US and other countries, all can be attributed to causes other than nuclear radiation. Ever hear of the "March of Dimes"?As for the scene when she holds up the Geiger counter, and says how scarred she is, either by a lie or incompetence, she is using it inaccurately. The selector switch is on Total Count, not on a count by minute (CPM rate), as it should be. Is the total count on over 1 minute, five minutes, several hours, several days? The "clicks" registered do not match up with the count displayed either. It appears to me that it is at maybe a couple of hundred counts per minute, not 13,000 counts every single minute (The LED would look steady at that rate!). Yes there is radiation levels higher than average world background, but there are beaches in France and India, Ramsar Iran, and other places that have very high background counts, and there are relatively few incidences of cancer and birth defects. Are children with birth defects a good charity? Of course! But one should not lie, by omission or ignorance about it to collect funds.

Chernobyl Heart is a reflection of the growing dis-ease spreading like a cancer around planet earth....we think that because we don't know about the acute suffering of children,and others, thousands of miles away, or are not aware of the severe poisoning of a portion of Mother Earth's body, that it does not directly affect us. But like any cancer that begins to grow in our body, we are usually not aware of it's presence until it reaches a certain critical point...then we begin to FEEL it directly and can no longer deny its existence. What will it take for us to collectively wake up from our self-absorbed coma that refuses to understand anything at all until it's too late. We can donate our money or time in helping victims of disasters, and this is always needed, but why is this never enough? Have we not noticed that throwing money at calamitous situations never seems to solve the systemic problem of greed and corruption in the consciousness of MEN basically in charge of running everything on this planet? Maybe we all need to awaken our OWN Chernobyl Heart, first............before it is too late.

To say I was affected by Chernobyl Heart would be putting it mildly. Like many people I imagine, I first viewed Chernobyl Heart on HBO and was reduced to tears at the sight of so many suffering children. It is beyond cliché, however watching children suffer so makes me feel like rubbish for ever complaining about anything in my life. On a positive note, I did begin to involve myself with the Chernobyl Children's Project International, and last Christmas donated money and collected money at my job for their obviously worthwhile cause. Now that I'm back at school, I hope I might continue my work with the organisation. I didn't mean to turn this into a plug for CCPI, however it goes hand in glove with watching such an inspiring film.