Even allowing for the burdens of low-budget filmmaking, Ethan Mao is little more than a revenge fantasy for anyone whose parents ever gave him or her a hard time.
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06/16/05
Ethan Mao (2005)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:4
Rotten:7
Average Rating:3.8/10
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Top CriticIt builds tension gradually but surely to an exceptionally strong payoff.
08/11/05
Top CriticFor a low-budget indie with no special effects, Ethan Mao is a treat to look at.
04/08/05
Excellent drama, via Quentin Lee.
03/31/05
acting, directing, and production are all B to C level
10/26/05
Overly ambitious in its themes and crude in its execution.
07/15/05
It'd be unfair to reveal whether Ethan's prayers go answered, but viewers can take comfort in knowing that their own prayers will be: Yes, this movie, eventually, comes to an end.
04/08/05
Top CriticAn exhausting exercise in genre mixing.
06/14/05
Top CriticMessy admixtures of drama and mockery crucially undermine pic's serious message.
08/11/05
Top CriticNobody onscreen seems to realize that this deadeningly self-serious treatment of family dysfunction is so overwrought that it becomes a spot-on satire of low-budget ineptitude.
08/11/05
Awkward dialogue, amateurist acting and uninspired direction.
06/17/05
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