Produced under the guidance of China’s Ministry of State Security, Zhang Yimou’s hi-tech spy thriller Scare Out is the first contemporary Chinese film to tackle the issue of national security head-on.

Slickly executed but narratively muddled, it stars Jackson Yee and Zhu Yilong as security agents who, while on the trail of stolen military secrets, learn there is a mole operating within their own unit.

Shooting on location in the newly modernised metropolis of Shenzhen, Zhang seizes the opportunity to flex his virtuoso visual sensibilities.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here