Ren Pengyuan’s tale of a banker forced to make Saw-style choices has some smart ideas but struggles to tie them togetherDespite some wildly implausible plot twists and a flashy high concept this Chinese thriller is a film to induce a gentle drooping of the eyelids.
Xu Zheng plays Zhong Xiaonian, a filthy rich investor who has been rigging the stock market for years.
He groggily wakes up one morning to find himself trapped inside his Bond villain-ish modernist pad with no mobile reception and just his sanctimonious kidnapper at the end of a walkie-talkie for company.His mysterious captor announces that Zhong must pay the price for his dodgy dealings (a plotline that could charitably be described as inspired by the Saw franchise).
For the next five days, when the markets open at 9.30am, Zhong will be made to choose which of his secrets is revealed to a TV news channel.
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