If you like true crime documentaries, you'll enjoy this well-made film about an elderly Canadian man who the Ontario police terrified into confessing to a murder he did not commit with an elaborate "Mr. Big" undercover ruse that rivals anything you ever saw on Mission Impossible in its complexity and use of imposters to fool a target. The ENTRAPMENT was so bad, they couldn't convict the man, but he did serve FIVE YEARS in prison, they destroyed his life, they did not compensate him and NO ONE was even reprimanded for it!!!
Supposedly, Canada tightened its laws around "Mr. Big" investigations in which cops pretend to be big time criminals and actually lead people into committing simulated crimes, but I've read the socialist Trudeau state to our north STILL allows this to a much greater degree than other civilized countries.
A couple of things this film proves that aren't in the description: One, marijuana (that friendly and presumably harmless drug) leads to a LOT of violent crime, misery and ruined lives. Two, the loved ones of murder victims will never accept the innocence of someone the police arrest for the crime no matter how compelling the evidence exonerating them. The tendency of the angry relatives to cling to the belief that the murderer was caught and hate that suspect instead of hating the tunnel vision (or just lazy) police for failing to pursue and capture the real criminal is quite a phenomenon. I only took one point off for having a few white subtitles of wiretaps against a white background which made them illegible. Can't read that, eh?!
Supposedly, Canada tightened its laws around "Mr. Big" investigations in which cops pretend to be big time criminals and actually lead people into committing simulated crimes, but I've read the socialist Trudeau state to our north STILL allows this to a much greater degree than other civilized countries.
A couple of things this film proves that aren't in the description: One, marijuana (that friendly and presumably harmless drug) leads to a LOT of violent crime, misery and ruined lives. Two, the loved ones of murder victims will never accept the innocence of someone the police arrest for the crime no matter how compelling the evidence exonerating them. The tendency of the angry relatives to cling to the belief that the murderer was caught and hate that suspect instead of hating the tunnel vision (or just lazy) police for failing to pursue and capture the real criminal is quite a phenomenon. I only took one point off for having a few white subtitles of wiretaps against a white background which made them illegible. Can't read that, eh?!