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Film Summary

The film opens up in Los Angeles where we see a woman called "Katie”, on the bus, she is planning to return into acting career. While on the bus a father scolded his daughter, Katie saw it, pretending to be child protection officer and warns the father not to repeat, an elderly passenger congratulated her for guarding a child, minutes later Katie became aware that her watch has been snatched by an elderly woman. At the same time a 3 million jackpot is announced across the city.

After Katie reaches her destination, she occupies a very poor quality, dirty, uncomfortable room also their couples "Shadi and DJ" living in the same room as her. Katie was trying to rest, when she discovered a broken bathroom pipe after dirty water from leakage made her clothes dirty, she had no choice but using her remaining cash to purchase new clothes special for acting performance test. Back in the room, Katie was looking for her notebook instead she discovers a jackpot ticket belongs to Shadi, by mistake her thumbprint trigger the ticket which enroll her as a participant.

On the other scene, Katie failed  acting trial but things turned more worse for her as soon as she was announced as a prize winner for 3 million dollar, immediately other participants began assaulting her eager to obtain a winning lottery ticket, luckily , she has basic knowledge of fighting which helps her to escape from hungry people but hungry people did not stop they went after her, running across the building, she hides into one room, sadly it was dojo "karate training room”, karate trainer and students began attacking Katie.

One Karate trainer was choking her, suddenly a guy named Noel, broke through the roof and climbed down and helps Katie, then he introduce himself as professional bodyguard and propose to her 10 percent share of her winning prize but he will save her five times for free, Noel presents the contract, Katie had no choice but to agree to the terms and put her signature on the contract. 

After the completion of agreement, Noel starts to disclose some details to Katie about the game, first he tells her that there is a presence of drone which airs her whereabout always after 14 minutes, which gives the participants an opportunity to pursue her, also the participants are not allowed to murder each other only the prize winner is targeted until sundown. The details made Katie so scared to the extent that she gave up and asking Noel to help her reaching exit point, Noel accepted. The trip was dangerous; Noel and Katie were assaulted by angry people from every angle including bikers and normal civilian.

Police Officers shows up, Katie moves fast towards them to seek assistance, surprisingly, they also want the prize money, Noel beats the officers, took Katie and fled. Katie took cover in house of wax, the she calls her roommate Shadi for assistance, believing that Shadi is not part of the hunting game, minutes later Shadi and DJ shows up at wax house, looking for Katie, they found her and start assaulting her, Katie had no choice but to fight back to protect herself, she managed to get away. While on the road, a bus trip instructor saw Katie and told everyone her presence on the road, luckily, Noel shows up in Police vehicle and saves her as usual.

After all they have been through, Katie has some doubt about the true intentions of Noel, she fears that he also might turn against her because of cash. Players are still chasing them. Something came into Noel minds, he recalls about one of his friends who goes by the nickname "Machine Gun Kelly”, who has a secret safe room inside his house. They arrive at Machine Gun Kelly house, while they are talking to him, the hunters arrive, Noel and Katie had to force their way inside the secret safe room by shooting Machine Gun Kelly with a sedative gun. Inside the safe room Katie began to talk about how her life has been difficult in growing up. Noel gave her courage, insist that her life is more important to him more than money.

Angry players including Shadi and DJ were able to find the saferoom entrance password. Noel set a trap which interferes with players phones, resulted to phone buzzing then blow up, causing confusion among players which gives Noel and Katie a chance to flee, outside the house armed security guard from Lewis Protection Agency (LPA) were waiting for them, demanding to take Katie alone but she resisted and insist on letting Noel to accompany her. Together Katie and Noel were taken direct to the security company CEO named "Lewis”, to provide protection for Katie, she is required to give 30 percent to Lewis, Katie agrees and put her signature on the contract. 

Something about the Security Company did not sit well with Noel because the company is handling a very high-cost stuff regardless of having small number of customers. Noel recall a memory working together with Lewis as a private army contractor. Noel resigned soon after he found out that Lewis and other soldiers were murdering harmless people, immediately he understood the intentions of Lewis and warns Katie. Lewis does not plan to keep Katie safe rather to kill her. The security company main objective all along was to kill Jackpot winners and stole their prize cash.

 

As Lewis getting ready to escort Katie to the below ground bunker, left Noel behind. Katie did not want to go alone so she causes a scene which shift attention of Lewis and his guards, Noel saw a chance, immediately he began attacking security officers, stole the door access card, hand it over to Katie and continue fighting. Lewis captured Noel and took him to abandoned cinema hall, while there Lewis confesses murdering innocent people.

Katie managed to flee, minutes later she realizes Noel has been captured so she decided to went back to help Noel and ensure he is out of the hands of bad people. Katie shows up at the abandoned cinema hall with stun gun on her hands, making suicides threats and disclose that she recorded everything Lewis admitted to do.

Suddenly, several game participants shows up, barge into the hall, attacking Katie which compelled her to fight back to save herself, as the game time almost over, she decided to mount to a temporary stage to avoid being murdered. The chaos in the hall was over the top, Noel managed to overwhelm Lewis and keeps fighting with other participants who are trying to kill Katie. With the security guard assistance Lewis was able to climb up and reaching Katie but she managed to trigger a bomb on Lewis which goes off and kills him instantly, the force from explosion pushes Katie and she drop down, luckily her fans uses large sheet to protect her from hitting the ground hard.

 When Katie reaches the ground, the time was already zero, she remains alive and swear to give Noel 50 percent of her winning prize. Katie stops to pursue career in acting and spends her money to help the community which involves self-defense training center, saving children institute especially from cruel parents.in the Final moment, Noel and Katie are seen enjoying life in a luxury boat after they has been through tough time together.

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