The Lookout (2007)

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Starring:	Joseph Gordon-Levitt \| Isla Fisher \| Jeff Daniels \| Matthew Goode \| Carla Gugino \| Alex Borstein \| Janaya Stephens \| Aaron Berg \| Kalyn Bomback \| Paul Christie \| Morgan Kelly \| Laura Vandervoort \| Sergio Di Zio
Director:	Scott Frank
Studio:	BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time:	99 mins
Collections:	New releases
Genres:	Drama \| Thriller
Languages:	English
Hearing-impaired:	English
Released:	March 31, 2008
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Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

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Enjoyable

Kinger from from Petersfield, 4th July, 2008

Ex high school jock has an accident and now has learning difficulties. Now works at a bank cleaning the floors in the evening and trying to get by the best he can. I'm not sure how much sympathy we're supposed to have with the lead character ( you get the impression he was a bit full of himself in his pomp), but you do feel for hm in his day to day struggles. Sharing an apartment with a blind man and befriended by a 'cool' ex school collegue with an ulterior motive for wanting to be mates, the story unfolds in a fluid manner exploring his relatonship with his flatmate , his parents and his new found friend and also the struggle to break free from his mental shackles. A good story well acted, with just enough suspense thrown in to keep you interested.

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Good but Disappointing,

crockery from from Belfast, 29th June, 2008

Gary Spargo: My old man used to say to me, probably the only thing we ever really agreed on, was that whoever has the money has the power. You might wanna jot that down in your book. It's something you're gonna need to remember. Disappointing would be the best adjective to describe very talented screenwriter Scott Frank''s (Out of Sight, Minority Report) directorial debut. A great plot is ruined by unrealistic dialogue and a cop-out ending. 'The Lookout' builds up this great story, but it never takes off. I kept waiting for the film to get interesting and when it finally did it only had 15 minutes left in the runtime. The best aspect about the movie is perhaps the acting. Joseph Gordon Levitt is outstanding as always as the film's hero suffering brain damage, while Jeff Daniels provides a powerful dramatic turn as Levitt's blind roommate. Isla Fisher is solid in an unimportant role, but I was not impressed with Mathew Goode's inarguably average performance as the movie's antagonist. Scott Frank's direction has moments of innovative brilliance but for the most it's average and uninteresting. Scott Frank's screenplay is absolutely devastating though. For such a great screenwriter, Frank turns out some pretty trite stuff. Like I previously mentioned, the plot is solid but the dialogue needs some serious work. All in all, 'The Lookout' was disappointing to me after reading all these positive reviews in the press and on internet. 'The Lookout' is overall a good film whose positive qualities outweigh the bad qualities. I recommend it, but just don't be expecting anything groundbreaking or Oscar-worthy.

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