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DramaCrime

No More Bets

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A depressed programmer and a model decide to seek gold as a seemingly good job opportunity, but they inadvertently become involved in a well-planned Internet scam.

Release Date : 2023-08-05

Language :ThaiMandarinEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Tao Piao PiaoBeijing Shangshi Culture Communication Co., Ltd.裕野(上海)文化传媒有限公司China Film Group Corporation沃栢嘉文化传播(上海)有限公司Dirty Monkeys Studios

Production Country : China

Alternative Titles : no more bets

Cast

Zhang Yixing

Character Name : Pan Sheng

Original Name : 張藝興

Gender : Male

Eric Wang Chuanjun

Character Name : Lu Bingkun

Original Name : 王传君

Gender : Male

Yong Mei

Character Name : Zhao Dongran

Original Name : Yong Mei

Gender : Female

Zhou Ye

Character Name : Song Yu

Original Name : 周也

Gender : Female

Jin Chen

Character Name : Liang Anna

Original Name : 金晨

Gender : Female

Darren Wang

Character Name : Gu Tianzhi

Original Name : 王大陸

Gender : Male

Sunny Sun

Character Name : An Juncai

Original Name : Sunny Sun

Gender : Male

Carmen Tong

Character Name : Li Shuang

Original Name : Carmen Tong

Gender : Female

Gilbert Lam Wai-San

Character Name : Guan Yongchao

Original Name : 林韋辰

Gender : Male

Shu Meiling

Character Name : Lu Yueting

Original Name : 舒美铃

Gender : Male

Xinqi Deng

Character Name : Deng Fangfang

Original Name : Xinqi Deng

Gender : Male

Sheren Tang Shui-Man

Character Name : Gu Tianzhi's Mother

Original Name : 鄧萃雯

Gender : Female

David Lam Wai

Character Name : Gu Tianzhi's Father

Original Name : 林威

Gender : Male

Sire Ma

Character Name : Liang Anna's Former Boss

Original Name : Sire Ma

Gender : Female

Wu Jian

Character Name : Captain Huang

Original Name : Wu Jian

Gender : Male

Song Yuhe

Character Name : Debt Collector

Original Name : Сун Юй Хэ

Gender : Male

Li Donghai

Character Name : Middleman

Original Name : Li Donghai

Gender : Male

Jim Liu

Character Name : Immigration Officer

Original Name : Jim Liu

Gender : Male

Jiang Rongrong

Character Name :

Original Name : 姜蓉蓉

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-10-22

Were this not based on a true story, then I'd have thought you couldn't have made it up! A rather stroppy but brilliant programmer is passed over for promotion and so storms off in a huff. Like a great many clever men, "Pan Sheng" (Yixing Zhang) is a bit thick when it comes to the practical things in life and after a short plane journey finds himself attached to the lively and charismatic "Cai" (Sunny Sun) who is clearly too good to be true. A bus trip ensues and then "Pan" - and the other passengers - are promptly all but imprisoned working in a scam factory where betting odds are controlled and manipulated, where pretty girls are forced to host gaming tables and all essentially work to facilitate a complex fleecing operation that capitalises on the vulnerabilities of people at home who are successfully sucked into a fraud that nets the criminals millions of dollars and causes no end of collateral damage to those who find themselves addicted. "Pan" and former model, turned croupier, "Liang Anna" (Gina Chen Jin) try to concoct a way of escaping; of passing information to the outside summoning help - but their new guardians are savvy to just about every ploy they try. Interestingly, there is a glimmer of hope offered to all of them by their boss "Lu" (Chuan-jun Wang). He does allow them the prospect of buying their freedom - make enough money and off you go? Really? Hmmm. I did find the story fascinating - the use of some of the brightest minds to cleverly massage the data for an industry that is largely unregulated on a transnational basis is breathtaking. These guys basically print their own money as efficiently as if they had their own mint. Zhang does ok, even if he's a bit lightweight; it's Gina Jin who delivers the goods as an actor as the plot heads towards an admittedly rather unpredictable denoument. Sadly, there's far too much dialogue and the film drags it's feet all too often. A stronger, more effective, lead actor and half an hour less of preamble and waffle and Ao Shen could have given us a powerful indictment of human greed - on both sides of the computer screen. It's still watchable, though.