Looker
by Michael Crichton
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Actor: Albert Finney, Dorian Harewood, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young, Susan DeyDirector: Michael Crichton
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Looker
Movie Review: Looker - I can't believe this is a movie by Michael Crichton!
Summary: 1 Stars
Speaking for myself Looker was a terrible movie experience. Based on my lofty expectations for a Michael Crichton (MC) production I can only score it at one star. I realize the majority of Amazon reviewers don't agree with me, but I have loved everything done by this amazing science fiction writer in the past, and this film just didn't do it for me. I even watched this movie twice, once without commentary and a second time with MC narration. It just didn't work. I am glad to see that the majority of reviewers really appreciate what MC can do, even on what for me was one of his "off days". I also think the actors did a fine job under very difficult circumstances. I scarcely need mention some of my favorite MC films but I absolutely loved the Andromeda Strain, Coma, Jurassic Park, Congo, not to mention all of his other fine science fiction and non scifi novels.
Summary of Looker
A plastic surgeon (Albert Finney) gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways. With the help of Cindy (Susan Dey), the next in line to be killed, he traces the deaths to a mysterious corporation which develops new technologies. Directed and written by Michael Crichton (Westworld, Coma).Someone is killing the supermodel clients of Hollywood plastic surgeon Albert Finney, and because this is a Michael Crichton movie, there has to be a pop-techno-scientific reason for it. Welcome to the daffy world of Looker, a 1981 film that manages to blend one or two interesting cultural ideas with a dismal storyline and a wonderfully cheesy early-Reagan-era look. The trail of murders leads to a corporation called Digital Matrix (Crichton always was prophetic about naming things), where head honcho James Coburn has launched a nonsensical plan involving TV commercials and mind control. Accused of the model deaths, Finney must track down the real culprit, aided by client Susan Dey (in her most appealing non-TV role). There's also a crazy "light gun" that causes victims to black out, a device that leads to some very strange shoot-outs. All of this might have been fun if the movie had any kind of suspense or distinctive characters. Albert Finney made this the same year he did Wolfen, after a hiatus from movie acting--a pair of eccentric choices, to be sure. Adding to the silliness is a truly wretched theme song, made the way they made 'em in the early '80s. --Robert Horton
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