You needn't be familiar with the true story to anticipate his arc here, but Pilon makes for volatile watching all the same. His gangly body language and penetrating, off-kilter stare suggest a real, bewildered inner rage, not defined simply by the tabloid-ready circumstances of his victimhood. What sparks of strangeness and intrigue 'Most Wanted' has emerge principally from the presence of Antoine-Olivier Pilon - the electric star of Xavier Dolan's 'Mommy' in 2014 - as Olivier, here renamed Daniel Léger for purposes of creative leeway. Victor Malarek, the real-life journo who uncovered the agents' corruption, retains his identity in Roby's telling, though as played with furrowed brow and gruff virtue by Josh Hartnett, he's a movie hero through and through. Writer-director Daniel Roby has fictionalized the grim story of Alain Olivier, a small-time drug dealer tricked in 1989 by Canuck police into traveling to Thailand to orchestrate a major heroin score, landing him several years in a local prison.
So it proves, again, in 'Most Wanted, a fact-based Canadian procedural of police skulduggery and journalistic derring-do that does its own job with proficient integrity, but as much inventiveness as you'd guess from that all-purpose placeholder of a title. The hard-headed reporter who doesn't play by the rules is a stock character of films that invariably do.
0 kommentar(er)
