Scare Out

Very few westerners are paying much attention to Zhang Yimou anymore, but I still roll out for his movies when they slink unannounced into my local multiplex. I'm just about ready to stop trying to reconcile 21st century Zhang with his 20th century counterpart, because the…

Will Sloan

who tf edited this lmao

ash

Dramatically and borderline narratively inept - in fact, I won't make any concessions to what seems to be a complete dogshit screenplay. This is Zhang Yimou in sludge-mode and yet I can't help but agree with what another writer on this website affectionately termed this…

Neil Bahadur

Much of the film is predicated on the interplay of faces, so much so that most of the film’s elaborate montage is on either the constant back and forth between close shots of different faces or around the same one as their action or space changes. With that, the magnitude…

yammy

So this is the same guy who directed “Raise the Red Lantern.” This would be like if Stanley Kubrick directed “Transformers: The Last Knight.”

evanleiser

Score : 4.5/10 ✅ Most annoying editing of the year? Well, for now, Scare Out gets my vote. It's kind of sad that the director of Hero (2002) and Shadow (2018), two movies that were genuinely interesting to look at, is getting the opposite treatment here. In Scare Out,…

Deathy

Zhang Yimou going into mainstream blockbuster filmmaking by riffing Tony Scott, with all the robotic acting you'd expect from public official characters, infinite cuts and zooms that would make you question the welfare of the editor and no subtlety whatsoever. Entertaining…

Harris Dang

This might be some of the worst editing I’ve ever seen. So many cuts in this film don’t even line up with each other that it was laughable. Every conversation seems to have a million camera angle switches that makes it jarring to watch. The screenplay here is also terrible…

smegmagic

Like late style Tony Scott being thrust headfirst into the Chinese century captured by Bay's work with drones. Safe to say I adored every second of this from front to back.

Luke