{"id":11407,"date":"2023-09-04T08:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/no-more-bets-review-chinese-wolf-of-wall-street-is-marred-by-moralising\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T08:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T06:37:26","slug":"no-more-bets-review-chinese-wolf-of-wall-street-is-marred-by-moralising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/no-more-bets-review-chinese-wolf-of-wall-street-is-marred-by-moralising\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Bets review \u2013 Chinese Wolf of Wall Street is marred by moralising"},"content":{"rendered":"

With its expos\u00e9 of digital scammers, fraud farms and gangmasters, Ao Shen\u2019s thriller is inventive and snappily directed. A shame, then, that it morphs into a public health warning<\/p>\n

It is a shame that either Chinese authorities had a word, or producers decided to aim for brownie points by fitting No More Bets out as an anti-fraud public-messaging spot \u2013 because Ao Shen\u2019s thriller is otherwise a snappily directed and intriguing entr\u00e9e to the industry of online deception. Compared with the unrepentant and far more effective dramatic irony of The Wolf of Wall Street, a film this one often resembles, we get unnecessary scenes of government officials reading the riot act to digital scammers, and a patriotic after-credits montage of fraud and trafficking victims saying how much safer they feel back on Chinese soil.<\/p>\n

An unnamed south-east Asian country is the promised land for cheesed-off programmer Pan (Yixing Zhang), who, having been passed over for promotion, flies off to work for a new gaming company offering big bucks. But instead he finds himself passport-less and strong-armed into grinding for a fraud farm in a rural primary school run by gangmaster Bingkun (Chuan-jun Wang, doing a good approximation of the stooping slimeballs you used to get in old Shaw Brothers films<\/a>). Among their sucker-baiting operations are catfishing, investing and casino gambling, with croupier and former model Anna (Gina Chen Jin) coerced into operating the honeypot.<\/p>\n

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\nWith its expos\u00e9 of digital scammers, fraud farms and gangmasters, Ao Shen\u2019s thriller is inventive and snappily directed. A shame, then, that it morphs into a public health warning
\nIt is a shame that either Chinese authorities had a word, or producers decided to aim for brownie points by fitting No More Bets out as an anti-fraud public-messaging spot \u2013 because Ao Shen\u2019s thriller is otherwise a snappily directed and intriguing entr\u00e9e to the industry of online deception. Compared with the unrepentant and far more effective dramatic irony of The Wolf of Wall Street, a film this one often resembles, we get unnecessary scenes of government officials reading the riot act to digital scammers, and a patriotic after-credits montage of fraud and trafficking victims saying how much safer they feel back on Chinese soil.
\nAn unnamed south-east Asian country is the promised land for cheesed-off programmer Pan (Yixing Zhang), who, having been passed over for promotion, flies off to work for a new gaming company offering big bucks. But instead he finds himself passport-less and strong-armed into grinding for a fraud farm in a rural primary school run by gangmaster Bingkun (Chuan-jun Wang, doing a good approximation of the stooping slimeballs you used to get in old Shaw Brothers films). Among their sucker-baiting operations are catfishing, investing and casino gambling, with croupier and former model Anna (Gina Chen Jin) coerced into operating the honeypot. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With its expos\u00e9 of digital scammers, fraud farms and gangmasters, Ao Shen\u2019s thriller is inventive and snappily directed. A shame, then, that it morphs into a public health warning It is a shame that either Chinese authorities had a word, or producers decided to aim for brownie points by fitting No More Bets out as …<\/p>\n

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