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The Lookout (2007)The Lookout (2007)

The Lookout (2007)

A well-cast and slickly made crime tale told from a unique perspective

Crime, Drama, Thriller

6.9

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United States of America
English
A-list actors, Easy, Suspenseful
2007
Scott Frank
Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Bruce McGill
99 min

Synopsis

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Chris 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.

Our Take

6.9
The Staff

Fans of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit might be curious about its writer/director Scott Frank’s first feature, this small, suspenseful thriller about a young man with anterograde amnesia and the eccentric cast of characters he encounters leading up to a bank heist. These people are brought to life by a number of high-profile actors doing relatively unusual work outside their wheelhouses: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, and an almost unrecognizable Matthew Goode as a scheming robber. It might be a little unclear what The Lookout is trying to say, exactly, but it works as a brief look into a fractured mind trying to hold on to something good in his life.

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