The Whistleblower

Xue's strengths as a filmmaker may lie more in fluffy comedy than in carefully calibrated tension.

The result is all over the map, in every sense. But despite the stilted acting and artless expository dialogue, the unpredictable shifts of gear hold attention over most if not all of the lengthy running time.

The Whistleblower starts to feel needlessly woolly by the end, and British viewers may find one particular script quirk impassable.

Tang Wei (Lust, Caution) and Lei Jiayin (The Wandering Earth) star in this old-fashioned action-thriller come romance

Everything spreads in an obsessive and anticlimactic way, manipulating the characters capriciously, taking away what little dramatic interest it could have achieved. [Full Review in Spanish]

A Sino-Aussie thriller with plenty of properly potent action beats, a generally engaging cast, a global chase involving wildly improbable escapes and a script rife with knee-slappingly silly plot details.

When it refrains from heavy handed lecturing, The Whistleblower just about passes muster as a slick time-waster, with Andy Canny's taut editing keeping the increasingly improbable developments moving at a decent pace.

Chinese film is coming for Western audiences, but this ludicrous thriller, full of coincidence and contrivance, ain't it. Still, nice to see a global story that doesn't center the US or Europe.