Cyber Wars

Cyber Wars

You Don't Play the Game, The Game Plays You.

PG-13 2004 · 103 min · ★ 5.1 · Action, Science Fiction

In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose.

Directed by Jian Hong Kuo · Written by Christopher Hatton

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