The Lookout
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Carla Gugino, Isla Fisher, Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode Director: Scott Frank Brand: Buena Vista Home Video DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 2.40:1 Running Time: 99 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Miramax |
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Movie Reviews of The Lookout
Movie Review: A compelling film noir, with unusual twists.
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Lookout," Scott Frank's debut as a director, is a thoroughly professional, thrilling film noir; one would expect nothing less from the screenwriter of "Dead Again," "Get Shorty," and "Out of Sight." In thinking about the film after seeing it, however, I grew more and more impressed with the depth of its characterizations and its treatment of disabled characters not as plot points or plaster saints, but as fully fleshed, three-dimensional people. Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a former high-school athlete and all-around Golden Boy, is still picking up the pieces of his life four years after a horrible auto accident. Afflicted with a brain injury that makes it difficult for him to sequence his thoughts, he must write down all his daily activities in order, in a notepad, even to the point of remembering to use soap in the shower and not to lock his keys in his car. Afflicted with unbearable feelings of rage, guilt, and loss, Chris is an easy mark for the friendly attentions of Gary (Matthew Goode), who claims to have been a classmate of Chris' older sister, and Gary's ex-stripper girlfriend Luvlee (Isla Fisher), who comes on to Chris immediately. At once we sense that Gary's interest is less in Chris and more in the bank in which Chris works as night janitor. The story is of how Gary sucks Chris into the heist, and how later Chris must overcome his disabilities to save himself and those he cares about. As director and screenwriter, Frank is a master of building suspense, slowly and almost imperceptibly, to palm-sweating intensity. But, even more, he is extremely astute in creating characters, and in choosing and directing actors to play them. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has become something of a specialist in playing damaged characters, and "The Lookout" continues the impressive string of performances he created in "Manic," "Mysterious Skin," and "Brick." From the jerky, limping gait he gives Chris to the barely perceptible movements of his eyes, Gordon-Levitt creates an unforgettable, deeply moving character in Chris, one we root for all the way. Matthew Goode, on the other hand, transcends the bland pretty boys he played in "Match Point" and other films, playing Gary as a charming but suspiciously oily con man at the beginning and slowly revealing him to be a seething, murderous sociopath. It's a performance of great intensity and skill. Also outstanding is the great Jeff Daniels as Lewis, Chris' roommate and only close friend. Lewis is blind, but he's a most unusual blind man for the movies; gruff, sardonic and profane, he reveals great depths of wisdom, kindness and courage without the slightest whiff of the plaster sanctity with which Hollywood loves to coat the blind. "The Lookout" is superbly acted down to the smallest bit part; besides the aforementioned actors, I particularly loved Sergio Di Zio as Ted, the hapless, good-natured cop who befriends Chris and brings him doughnuts. "The Lookout" isn't quite perfect; for example, one major character disappears halfway through with no real explanation. (That character's disappearance is logical and even foreshadowed when you think about it, but some may think the matter requires more thought than it's worth.) However, the totality of the film is so impressive that its flaws are negligible. Some may object that Chris in "The Lookout" is too close to Leonard in "Memento," and insist as a consequence that the film's ending is unbelievable. Chris, however, is much more fleshed out than Leonard, and his brain injury isn't the same; Chris is capable of sustained thought, he simply has to unscramble his thoughts. "The Lookout" is a movie you'll want to see more than once--and to tell your friends about.