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Hundreds of cash-strapped contestants accept an invitation to compete in children’s games for a tempting prize, but the stakes are deadly.

Matt Roush

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Finally, the endgame. Or is it? Surely feels that way for Season 1 champ Gi-hun (Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae), who returned in a bloated and incomplete Season 2 of the global hit thriller to take down the game from within. The third and allegedly final season of the grueling action phenomenon opens with Gi-hun in a numbed stupor — we know how he feels — after leading a failed rebellion against the masterminds of the nihilistic survival contest involving perverted and deadly twists on classic children’s games. He eventually rallies on behalf of the game’s most defenseless players — with pregnant contestant No. 222 (Jo Yu-ri) still in the mix, you can guess what that means. Though the novelty has worn off the franchise, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk wrings suspense as the net tightens around the elaborate arena and its secret island. Can anything or anyone stop this sadistic enterprise? Probably not when it’s this successful.

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