“No More Bets,” the smash hit Chinese crime thriller that has earned more than half a billion dollars in its home market, is hurriedly adding new territories to release. It will release in the U.K.…
,” the smash hit Chinese crime thriller that has earned more than half a billion dollars in its home market, is hurriedly adding new territories to release.
Said to be based on actual events, the story involves a computer programmer and a model who are lured abroad by a job offer that turns out to be a scam. Instead, they are prevented from leaving and are obliged to work as online scammers, ripping off other unknowing victims. Online fraud and semi-covert scam factories based in imperfectly regulated parts of Southeast Asia are a significant present-day reality. The film has become such a powerful cultural talking point within China that local media has reported Chinese citizens cancelling their planned travel to the region.
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