[A] low stakes, but hugely impactful, village-set action movie, in which even time stamps on surveillance footage are exciting.

Chen is delightfully wicked as the morally compromised chief of a corrupt and abusive police department, however, and the plot is engrossing enough to forgive the movie's excesses.

...a good remake with a lot of emotions put into its runtime.

The plot requires a huge suspension of disbelief. Those who are willing to take that leap are in for a thrilling cat and mouse game.

With a carefully constructed, multi-layered screenplay, great performances and some inspired directorial flourishes, Sheep Without a Shepherd is a thrilling game of cat-and-mouse with a wicked sense of humor and a genuinely surprising conclusion.

Few directors knock it out of the park their first time around yet on his first time directing a feature film Quah has found a perfect balance of thrills and chills, and rolling emotions.

A divertingly clever cat-and-mouse thriller, the editing is niftier than the script.

Although the premise is undoubtedly far-fetched, Malaysian director Sam Quah succeeds in constructing the kind of tightly wound suspense piece for which disbelief can be suspended.

Sheep Without a Shepherd is an exceptional ode to crime thrillers and cinema lovers, with the affecting relevance of how the roar of the victimized can topple their oppressors.

Weijie namechecks Hitchcock and the grandmaster might have approved of the jaunty tone at work in this story of blackmail, death and deception: equal parts folktale and internet-age morality yarn.