There’s an INFERNO in Vietnam and Victor Vu Started It

Well Victor Vu cannot hide forever. He has to face the shameful inferno of his own dishonesty. The truth exploded out all over the Vietnamese press that Victor Vu copied the entire film “Shattered” in making “his film” Inferno. It came out that he did not just copy the story or a few things, Victor Vu duplicated everything from the main story to sub stories to main and supporting characters to each twist in Shattered and its ending. Victor even copied Shattered’s look and music, sounds etc. He is now seen as a big shame of Vietnamese Cinema, just google “Victor Vu Inferno giong y het Shattered” (Victor Vu’s Inferno is a duplicate of Shattered). Victor Vu has have shamed himself and unfortunately the entire Vietnamese Cinema and the image of the Vietnamese people as copycats, because of his shameful dishonesty.

As a Vietnamese I am ashamed we have people like Victor Vu and Irene Trịnh stealing from overseas movies and deceiving the Vietnamese people and making bad name for Vietnam film.

Hy vọng tan nát!
“Shattered” có nghĩa là tan nát.
Tôi đã từng hy vọng và tin vào Victor Vũ nhưng sau khi xem phim Shattered thì hy vọng của tôi tan nát!
Victor Vũ đã làm xấu hổ người Việt! Anh đã bôi nhọ niềm tin của người Việt và lợi dụng nó làm cú lừa đánh lừa khán giả Việt.
Điện ảnh Việt Nam trước giờ đã thiếu sáng tạo vì thường có những đạo diễn hay “mượn” ý tưởng phim ngoại xào nấu lại. Nay lại có người quá thấp kém như Victor Vũ khỏi cần “mượn” ý tưởng mà copy y nguyên bộ phim Shattered luôn rồi nổ là sáng tạo của mình. Thật tội nghiệp cho điện ảnh Việt Nam không được giúp đỡ mà còn bị những con sâu như Victor Vũ lừa bịp bôi nhọ uy tín điện ảnh Việt.
Bây giờ đối với tôi Victor Vũ chỉ còn là một vết dơ xấu hổ cho người Việt Nam.

Victor Vu have made a bad name for all Vietnamese people everywhere when he stole the whole film Shattered and duplicated it into his film Giao Lo Dinh Menh (Inferno). Vietnamese films have tried so hard with slow progress, now one dishonest man have shattered all others’ hard work to build a good reputation for Vietnamese films. Shame on you Victor Vu.

Victor Vu is a dishonest impostor who’s so freakishly obsessed with false fame at all cost no matter who or what he hurts, in this case he’s hurting Vietnamese cinema and the Vietnamese people but he doesn’t care about that. He plagiarized the film “Shattered” copied even the smallest detail to make his film “Inferno” then bragged that it was all his own work and how Hollywood he is. He wanted easy fame by stealing other people’s work. What I can’t believe is even after being caught he and his producer Irene Trịnh continued to lie and said that Vietnamese people are too ignorant to be able to judge their film!!! Victor Vu and Irene Trịnh are disgusting. See both films you’ll see!

Victor Vu picked “Shattered” to plagiarize because it came out in 1991 when Vietnam was completely closed to the outside world and the open-door policy had not started so he was sure no Vietnamese could have ever seen it! That’s why Victor Vu’s film Giao lo dinh menh (Inferno) is exactly IDENTICAL to Shattered! When his copycat film came out he bragged he’s a “Hollywood director in the Hitchcock way”… Now his plot for fame by stealing is uncovered Victor Vu should admit deceit and apologize.

Victor Vu demeaned himself by stealing from an older American film (Shattered, 1991) and present it to the Vietnamese public as his own creative work in his copycat “Inferno” (2010). By his actions Victor Vu continues to debase himself to lower and lower depths, he stole Wolfgang Peterson’ work, used the plagiarized work to claim fame for himself and a PR campaign praising himself as “Hollywood”, “Hitchcockian”, “breath of fresh air for Vietnamese cinema” etc, then when unmasked as a plagiariser by the Vietnamese press he claimed that he wrote the story many years before “Shattered” as though it was Wolfgang Peterson who stole from him. Then he dismissed that Vietnamese audiences are not able to understand film. I guess it’s exactly that contempt he has toward Vietnamese people that made him think he can deceive Vietnamese audiences and get away with it in the first place. That Victor Vu is a Vietnamese trying to deceive his own people is just sad sad sad!

I just got the DVD of “Shattered”, they’re selling Shattered DVD all over Vietnam now and guess what Vietnamese title they gave to Shattered: Giao lo dinh menh, the same title as Victor Vu’s film, because the two films are so identical. I just watched Shattered and 5 minutes into it you can already see Victor Vu’s film was a ripoff of it, same car accident, same memory loss, same characters… except the acting is much better in Shattered. All of Vietnam now knows Victor Vu is a plagiariser. Talk about you can run but you can’t hide.

Have you seen both movies? Plagiariser con man Victor Vu has no shame he copied Wolfgang Petersen’s film “Shattered” scene by scene, character by character for his “Inferno” (Giao lo dinh menh) he even copied Shattered’s poster and music design, everything. By the way Roger Ebert wrote in his review of Wolfgang Petersen’s Shattered in 1991 that “This movie is one vast secret that shouldn’t be revealed”. So guess what slogan Victor Vu used for his copycat “Inferno” in Vietnam: “Some secret shouldn’t be revealed”, my god even the slogan is copied! And Victor Vu is still telling the Vietnamese that he’s never seen, never heard of and knows nothing about Wolfgang Petersen’s Shattered and that his film’s identicalness to Shattered is just “a completely normal coincidence”… What a liar! Well at least one secret that he thought would never be revealed has been uncovered by Vietnamese audiences: that he’s a swindler!

So sad that some bad Vietnamese Americans use what they know in the US to go back to Vietnam to prey on fellow Vietnamese people. Victor Vu and Irene Trinh carefully picked Shattered from 1991 cause they knew in 1991 Vietnam was shut to the outside so no Vietnamese ever saw Shattered. Sad to see people like that but I guess they underestimated Vietnamese people.

Unfortunately there exist some Vietnamese Americans without conscience like Victor Vu and Irene Trinh who use what they know in America to go back to their motherland and cheat their own people to get fame and money, and give a bad name to Vietnamese people as plagiarizers. That they picked Shattered from 1991 to copy since no Vietnamese could have seen it shows their motive and planning.

I laughed out loud when I saw both films. Victor Vu copied Shattered down to the tiny details, not only the story is exact same but he had the same characters with same profession working in the same business doing the same actions holding same props speaking the same dialogue in the same location as in Shattered! And he shot it the same way and had actors do the same acting with the same facial expression. Laughed so hard at this impostor Victor Vu’s extreme plagiarism, this guy really proved Vietnamese copy and steal from others, he took plagiarism to a new height… sorry, to a new low!

My fiancee from Vietnam took me to see Inferno, I saw Shattered before so knew right off it’s a plagiarized movie and told her this was no Vietnamese film, just a ripoff. We later read that Victor Vu was bragging all over newspapers that he can make such good thriller cause he’s “Hitchcock, Hollywood director, New wind in cinema, made for the American market” etc. This joker impostor Victor Vu is so disgusting makes me sick, we found out he only made video movies in Little Saigon, nothing “Hollywood” at all except steal from it to cheat Vietnamese investors and Vietnamese audiences!

Damn devious fraud uncovered! Victor Vu and co-conspirator Irene Trinh took advantage of Vietnam’s isolation from the world in the 90s to hatch this fraud plagiarizing Hollywood movies from that period and release in Vietnam today with hoopla as their own work to exploit vietnamese investors and people, Victor Vu gets both money and fame using others’ work. Devious way to get rich and famous, just requires a lack of conscience.

Seems Inferno was not Victor Vu’s first plagiarism. Apparently he also plagiarized the series of Chinese Ghost Stories movies to make his short video Spirits. Also some music in Inferno was copied from the Jason Bourne movies.

I think a film director got to have creativity, integrity and responsibility. By copying wholesale Wolfgang Petersen’s Shattered Victor Vu showed he has no creativity, by using plagiarized work to brag to Vietnamese people that he’s Hitchcock in Hollywood Victor Vu showed he has no integrity, and by holding press conferences in Vietnam to tell more lies like “everybody in Hollywood knows making identical movies is no problem but Vietnamese can’t understand Hollywood things” Victor Vu showed he has no responsibility.

Victor Vu must be the new master plagiarizer. Copying Wolfgang Petersen’s Shattered, plagiarizing Chinese Ghost Stories films, stealing Jason Bourne music? That ain’t all. In 1991 Roger Ebert said in his review of Shattered “This entire movie is one vast secret that shouldn’t be revealed” Guess Victor Vu liked it, his slogan for his copycat inferno is “Some secrets shouldn’t be revealed”. I cringe to think of how many more plagiarism secrets we’ll get from Victor Vu. By the way he’s still denying it all saying “any similarities are just coincidental”…

I see Timothy found that out too. Did you read it in the Vietnamese forums?

Why I read all the same comments regarding this topic in different articles from different websites?????

Who are these people trying to post the same thing over and over again from many places on the internet???? What are their purposes????

I got curious about Victor Vu stealing Shattered and searched around the internet for reader’s comments. Unbelievably, there are a number of people posted the same comments from ANY articles or website mentioning about Inferno. Must be something going on here. What are their purposes?????

I got curious about Victor Vu stealing Shattered and searched around the internet for reader’s comments. Unbelievably, there are a number of people posted the same comments from ANY articles or website mentioning about Inferno. Must be something going on here. What are their purposes?????

I got curious so I looked around the internet. Supprisingly everywhere I went, I felt like I saw the same people making the same kind of angry comments, then there are followers sharing their anger.

Then I looked into movies similarity and movie copyright infringement cases because I don’t believe that this Vietnamese film is the only case in the world. And supprisingly again, here what I found. You will be supprised.

Steven Spielberg’s Disturbia v.s. Alfred Hitcook’s Rear Window

Micheal Bay’s The Island v.s. The Clonus Horror

I can post link here but you can search info on imdb.

You could tell them thiefs as they were called when there movies came out. But the court did not think so. And they are the best Directors in the movie world.