Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. For their latest "mark," they choose a naive teenager from a small village, and as they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated...... (Full plot summary below)
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Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. For their latest "mark," they choose a naive teenager from a small village, and as they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated...
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| OffoffoffJoshua TanzerA savage swipe at China as the filmmaker finds it. The new China is a place where everyone is for sale, and the lives of the once-exalted working class are the cheapest. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealThe staccato, noirish film is proof, however, that China has no shortage of filmmaking talent. |
| VarietyDerek ElleyHas a low-key power that comes as much from its off-handed approach to the dark material as from any manipulative techniques. |
| Newark Star-LedgerLisa RoseMay be glutted with despair but it has the levity of an involving story and mordant humor. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsGlenn WhippThe end result is somewhat unsatisfying, largely because its twists aren't all that surprising and its outcome seems foreordained. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanFollowing the story is like walking down a mine shaft. Even with a weak headlamp, you kind of know where it's going, and it can't be good. But follow it you do, thanks to Yang's relentless, verite-style filmmaking. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrLess striking for its storyline than for the world it presents -- a rural moonscape of coal-dust, casual environmental disaster, and atavistic behavior. |
| TV GuideKen FoxPowerful stuff from writer-director Li Yang that's both an uncompromising indictment of the human cost of China's evolving market economy and an nail-bitingly suspenseful thriller. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanBlind Shaft means to leave the viewer dazed, and it does. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineGritty and funny, this film beautifully captures the desperation in a world where capitalism has gone mad. |
