Saw The Lookout today, and was quite pleased. I really liked it a lot. I didn't know too much about it, other than what I had read in few quick one-liners about its quality. What I thought was going to be a well developed caper movie was actually more of an examination of the main character's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) fall from grace and struggle to co-exist in the the very new adult world that he has created for himself in a fleeting moment of adolescent irresponsibility.
Jeff Daniels was also very good as a sort of mentor/buddy figure, playing one of the more convincing blind men I've seen in a long time, such that it's not just a caricature of the sardonic old man, but a true friend bearing some warmth and wisdom in a seemingly bleak existence for the both of them.
Best Movie I've seen this year so far.
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1 comment:
Cool Tom, I'm really looking forward to The Lookout. (Now even more so!) I was a little skeptical when it first came out... Hearing it's plot got me thinking about The Score (I think that's the one), where Edward Norton plays a bank robber who fakes some kind of retardation to become the inside man on the job... but from what I've heard that's where the similarities end with these two, including the fact that in The Lookout we have good actors giving good performances (Norton is one of my favs, but has definitely been unimpressive in some roles).
Thanks for the post Tom.
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