2020 · thriller · crime · spy
Target Number One
Directed by Daniel Roby2h 15m2020
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.
Our read: Target Number One (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · spy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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