Despite the sequel's poor critical reception, most people seeing it find the acting and cinematography at least as good or even better than the original.

most people seeing it find the acting and cinematography at least as good or even better than the original
most people seeing it find the acting and cinematography at least as good or even better than the original's
most people who see the film find the acting and cinematography at least as good as or even better than those in the original
most people who see it find the acting and cinematography at least as good or even better than those in the original
most people seeing the film find the acting and cinematography at least as good as or even better than those of the original's

The answer is stated as most people who see the film find the acting and cinematography at least as good as or even better than those in the original (in the explanation given)

I feel the word those is inappropriate in this sentence structure.Should it not be that.What is the antecedent for those.Please help on this.Is this a flaw in the question.

I created the first split on the correct usage of AS.....AS

so , it needs to be as good as

So ruled out A,B and D
Another way of ruling out A,B & D is the incorrect usage of pronoun "it". We want "it" to refer to the sequel but the sequel is in possessive case ad so it cannot refer to the SEQUEL.

In E, "those of the original's" kind of incorrect because those points to acting and cinematography and then again by using "original's", one is pointing at the "acting and cinematography"

Tutors -
Please provide the correct and better way of tackling this correction

"those" refers to "acting and cinematography". Plural, hence the need for "those"..

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