I love action movies that could pass as a video game. Although, yes.. the plot sounds really common, there are things that are interesting.
Robert Carlyle played here as Father McCoy, a priest who has a very low self esteem and always drinks. I love the irony of his character there. The idea that he became one of the players of the game without knowing it, made the game a little bit more fun.
I forgot a lot of things-- I don't even remember the ending. Of course I know it has a happy ending, I just don't remember how it ended. I remember removing chips, then a name disappearing from the list, then appearing again. Oh my, memory what happen to you?
Now... character development is kinda shaky. There are only three characters that the audience would stay focused on, and yet it feels that they had a bad job on developing them. I feel that the presentation of Lai Lai Zhen's back story, abrupt, like it is not yet ripe on the audience's head-- but they placed it there without cooking it anyways. Same with all the character's back stories. You couldn't emphatize with the characters because their back story was just presented like they just served it on the table for a few minutes, and only after it is about to end. AH!! Character's back story was placed near the ending, I just realized it is not a good idea to do that! WOW I LEARNED SOMETHING!
I need to rewatch the ending. Again, I appreciate the movie because it is like a video game.
I give this movie 2.25/5
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