Reviewed by: j.crawford Date: 02/07/2006 Summary: root for the murderer Herman Yau Lai-To always impress's me as a film artist who loves to shoot film, to work through his camera eye. His films are full of the energy that is drawn from a man who clearly loves what he is doing. With Dating Death, Yau brings his usual high energy to the film. He has to work with a cast of young actors and pop stars hoping to be the movie stars of tomorrow. Weak screenplay brings a group of friends together at a spooky, CGI mansion on a remote island near Hong Kong. A murder mystery dressed up like a ghost movie; this film does not work because the group dynamic is all wrong. These annoying people couldn't possibly be friends, so what you get is a lot of unintentional comedy. Once the killings start, you'll find yourself rooting for the murderer. Yau's films always have great scary moments and he does manage to pull off a few here. This movie is for Herman Yau completists only. [En español]Herman Yau Lai-To impresionar siempre soy yo como artista de cine que le gusta rodar la película, para trabajar a través de su ojo de la cámara. Sus películas están llenas de la energía que se extrae de un hombre que claramente le gusta lo que está haciendo. Con Citas muerte, Yau aporta su alta energía de costumbre a la película. Él tiene que trabajar con un elenco de jóvenes actores y estrellas del pop con la esperanza de ser las estrellas de cine de mañana. Guión débil trae un grupo de amigos en una mansión escalofriante, CGI en una remota isla cerca de Hong Kong. Un misterio de un asesinato disfrazado como una película fantasma, esta película no funciona debido a la dinámica de grupo es un error. Estas personas molestas no podía ser amigos, así que lo que hay es un montón de comedia involuntaria. Una vez que los asesinatos de empezar, usted se encontrará apoyando al asesino. Yau películas siempre tienen grandes momentos de miedo y él se las arregla para sacar un poco aquí. Esta película es de Herman Yau completistas solamente. Reviewer Score: 5

Reviewed by: Brian Thibodeau Date: 01/12/2005 Summary: Herman Yau - it's come to this.... Resolutely stupid teen slasher movie has six friends - four guys and two girls (the latter members of the moderately successful pop group Cookies) - reunited at a computer-generated cliffside villa one year after a drunken and patently unbelievable game of truth-or-dare results in the murder of a seventh friend. Is his ghost picking them off one by one, or has someone in the group lost a few marbles? Whichever, there’s plenty of running and screaming and rolling down staircases and all-around nitwittery, and such instant and constant accusation flinging that you’ll wonder how these kids ever became friends in the first place, let alone remained friends with a murderer clearly in their midst! As in Astonishing, released in theatres the same day, director Yau’s maturation as a visual stylist is evident in slick camera moves and calculated editing, but here he’s saddled with one of the worst scripts ever written for a Hong Kong picture. Reviewer Score: 3