Review of The Lookout (2007) by Teddy V — 13 Sep 2012
This film may not make you feel good or feel good about Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but that doesn't make it a bad film. It also, unlike basically every bullshit Hollywood production these days, doesn't pussy out when it comes to the hard hitting scenes and development a real film needs to turn heads and push asses into seats.
The "talk his ass into this crazy bank robbery shit" scene in this film pulls no punches; it's a hundred times as hardcore as any scene the horseshit "The Town" has. Also, the film revolves around a conceit that is dormant if not completely absent in modern filmmaking, the pattern of life that befuddles and becomes the reality of the mental handicapped by accident.
That is until the inevitable Hollywood horseshit takes over and evil dark-glasses guy starts acting like a bad-ass, after which ... well ... you get the picture. Too bad, because this movie had "film" written all over it, and it really wanted to deliver, but in the end it just wasn't all that great.
Like the main character, it just wasn't 100% there...
This review of The Lookout (2007) was written by Teddy V on 13 Sep 2012.
The Lookout has generally received positive reviews.
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