Casshern

1. Referencing or being influenced by highly respected, intelligent work, such as Shakespeare or Blade Runner, does not make your film any more intelligent or deserving of respect.

2. Flash-editing all your fight sequences – to hide the fact that your pretty actors can’t actually do any martial arts, and that you don’t know how to shoot it – is weak. Passing it off as “stylised action” is a joke.

3. Over-saturating every scene in post-production doesn’t make your film “visually stunning”, nor comparable to Hero. Similarly, excessive use of video filters is tacky and crap.

4. Needlessly cross-editing scenes together is not clever storytelling.

5. Slow motion scenes of girls crying while men look out of windows does not mean “drama” – even if you have Beethoven playing the background. Drama is when the audience actually gives a shit about what is happening.

6. Making your film needlessly long – in this case a whole 2hrs 21mins – does not make it an “epic”.

…And so on. These are some of the many reasons why Casshern is pap. Don’t be fooled by the interesting posters and trailer.