Thiên Than Ho Menh

After the commercial hit that is Dream Eyes (2019) followed by a dreadful year of the rampant Covid-19 pandemic, Victor Vu finally returns to his roots with the third unofficial installment of his famous Scandal franchise title The Guardian (2021) with yet, another tale about superstitious in the Vietnamese show business to little success because this is no doubt the most run off the mill movie he ever makes. The writing of The Guardian down to its characters beat and development is just a weak rehash version of the first Scandal movie only with a bigger budget now and although the first Scandal movie was ridden with plot holes it still accomplished what it set out to be while The Guardian strength relies on how much you know this famous guest star singer or care about the V-pop genre, to begin with. The movie got some nice spooky moments that will scare off the general audience who looking for a cheap thrill so watch it with caution.

Do you need to watch a whole film to know whether it is good or bad? Well, that depends on the film. Sometimes a well-made yet bad film will only reveal itself to me upon reflection after the end credits, this however, is clearly awful. Let's start with the opening scene, a woman unconvincingly committing suicide - I immediately found myself exclaiming "down the street, not across the road!", the lack of blood and consistency between shots just made it all the more unconvincing. In our next scene, we see a young woman singing possibly the worst lyrics I have ever seen, accompanied by an out-of-tune ukelele. That's really all I, or anybody else, needs to know.

May con nay nhin giong nhu dong ho nha Annabelle.

I swear to god this is one of the biggest piece of crap that I have seen. This director should stick to drama. It's like he took an intro to horror filmmaking, learned some basic elements, dropped the class, and made this amateur movie.

After the first hour I basically checked out. The second hour was just suffering hoping this trash would end as quick as possible. No it didn't end quick.

A cringe fest in almost every aspect: acting, dialogue, horror, pacing, everything.

Overall, a crappy version of Annabelle, which is already crappy. 1/10.

Gave it a chance because recent 'spirit dolls' trend in Indonesia. Not only little scares over long duration, Victor Vu also provided little insights on how these pretty singers get into showbiz easily. Final act and twisted ending were quite interesting tho.

This is a movie written and directed by people who were in coma for 20 years due to head trauma, woke up and got accidentally kicked in the head by a donkey and wrote this while being extremely concussed.

Seriously, did the movie blame a victim for the crime? Did an entire family come together to enact vengeance on a girl who is a victim of a crime just like their daughter? To everyone involved in the writing of this abomination.... You suck!!