The premise is thrilling for its own right, even though it tries to capture the audience with what Saw already captured years ago. The entire movie is based on total gray shaded characters without any protagonist and antagonist where everyone is a danger to others. Each character is forced to talk, and so we get an anthology of back stories - mostly tragic - learning how each of them got on their dark path to murder, misery and mayhem. The movie also hones in on societal factors that led everyone to kill that first time. Amadu turned to a hitman after seeing such trauma and bloodshed. Lucia's life turned upside down after her mother was wrongfully accused by a jealous white woman. Romero turned into a killer after the Russian mafia killed his friends. And then there's Marlene, I think her story is the most tragic of all, you just have to sympathize with her at some point. She's been abused both physical and emotional and as a result of such awful acts, she changed into a completely different person. All above them is Emaramus, whose presence is completely metaphorical to how the justice system works.
Overall, I like the movie, as it never gets boring thanks to the thrilling storytelling, and the music by Pancho Burgos-Goizueta is popping, exciting and adds energy to some of the scenes. The cast performances are decent all around. The cinematography is fine. But the editing is dodgy in some places especially the 'voting' sequence. The sound mixing could have been too as the score overpowers the dialogs at times.
