Josh Hartnett, the Ranger in Black Hawk Down and the hot-blooded teenager in Pearl Harbor, has finally grown up.
Growing up, but it means that he has never worked with a big director and made a high-cost commercial film, which may not be much for Josh Hartnett, who concentrates on character development, and the British drama "Pulp Talk" gives him enough room to play, but the temptation of the big screen is too great.
"Goal One" is a suffocating movie, the film intentionally or unintentionally rehabilitates this righteous reporter for innocent drug addicts, the pace of the plot is slow and lengthy, the whole movie is extremely complicated and stuffy, especially the cross-editing of two characters and two perspectives, which is really not a clever narrative technique.
In the film, he plays a Canadian named Victor Malak, who is an in-depth reporter with fifteen years of investigative journalism experience, and his strong sensitivity makes him realize that a Canadian man who was jointly arrested by the Thai police and held in a Bangkok prison should have a wonderful story, and even smelled a strange smell.
Whether it's to save a career crisis or save milk for a newborn child, Victor has no way out, he has to meet the man, write his story, and in the end, he gets his wish, but the story is more tricky than he thought.
Daniel Jacko, a young canadian white man whose bad life was made worse by being drugged, was driven away by his father and worked everywhere to survive. A good guy who used to go to Thailand to take drugs together introduced him to a fat man named Glenn, and Daniel, who had not used drugs for half a year, was tempted by Glenn to take drugs again, and his life would become worse.
Wandering the gray area, Glenn has two identities, one is a local drug dealer and the other is a police informant. His life was simple, finding drug traffickers and handing them over to the anti-narcotics police in exchange for a lot of "activity money."
For the Canadian Federal Police Anti-Drug Unit E, although Glenn is a big-mouthed city servant, he can bring a lot of clues, crack the big case, the temptation of promotion and salary increase, so that they especially rely on this kind of "internal revelations", after several cooperation, a few small cases, Glenn gave Daniel Jacko to them, and described him as a key person who mastered the Thai drug import route.
Daniel, who is unladylike, is unlucky, and is taken by good buddies to take drugs and sent to the police by drug dealers. When the anti-narcotics officers compared Daniel's records, they found that he had a criminal record, and Glenn described his drug and drug trafficking experience vividly, and it was clear that this time they had good luck and met a big fish.
Under Glenn's coercion, Daniel meets with the anti-drug police who pretend to play the buyer, and both sides feel that the other party is not quite right, the police think that Daniel is a small trash fish, and Daniel feels that the buyer let him go to Thailand to find kilogram-level drugs, which is pure fantasy. Relying on half-truths, Glenn convinces the police that Daniel is the key person.
Daniel wants to escape because he has no money and no passport, and in order to facilitate the big deal, the anti-drug police agree to pay him money to redeem his passport, buy a plane ticket, and stay in a hotel.
Daniel insisted on finding a Thai seller, but the other party could only take out two kilograms of drugs, at the same time, the anti-drug police found that this Daniel was not the Robert Daniel with the case in the database, they may have found the wrong person, but they had to do things hard.
With the assistance of the Thai police, Canadian drug enforcement officers stole Daniel's stolen goods at the cost of one death. Daniel then figured out that he had been betrayed by Glenn and fished by the police. However, after being sentenced to 100 years in prison by a Thai court, it is estimated that he will never return to China for the rest of his life.
The case is closed, the anti-narcotics officer is promoted and paid, Daniel is thrown into a foreign prison, and the story ends.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, the newspaper published his report under pressure but refused his request for follow-up coverage, while a new body called the Public Complaints Commission took note of the matter and asked Victor to know about the situation.
With the help of the Public Complaints Committee, Daniel spent eight years collecting thousands of public documents to defend himself against the government of his home country, and eventually he was able to return to china to serve his sentence.
However, no one is held accountable and nothing has changed.
In the film, the complexity of the character of Daniel is that he is an addict, but he is innocent. Originally holding a bad hand in his hand, he decided to take a risk under coercion and inducement, and was eventually used by drug dealers and anti-drug police, originally, he had confessed his fate, and it was Victor's report and the public complaints committee's defense opportunity that gave him a glimmer of life.
Victor was not a flawless saint, and although he was often worried about his wife and children, he could do whatever it took for his work, in fact, like Daniel, he was a desperate man, but conscience finally triumphed over sensibility.
"Goal One" is a failed work, I am talking about his narrative and character building, the deliberately created depressing atmosphere, does not give this movie extra points, but makes people sleepy, it is difficult to stick to it. A good story has become a pot of porridge, and the main creator of this film can hardly blame it.
Josh Hartnett, who became famous at a young age, still seems to be constantly challenging himself and using different roles to pave the way for his acting career, however, in recent years, the number of films he has starred in is not only small, but also the quality is also good, if you focus on making TV series in the future, it is indeed a pity.
But look at Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe, Little Devil's McCaulay Calkin, ET Alien's Drew Barrymore, and maybe his efforts were worth it.