Movie Review

The Lookout (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Mar 30, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Release Date: Mar 30, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 98 Minutes; Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery; With: Matthew Goode and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

HEAD GAMES Gordon-Levitt (left) is an impaired accomplice roped into a heist scheme by Goode in the unappealing thriller The... The Lookout

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HEAD GAMES Gordon-Levitt (left) is an impaired accomplice roped into a heist scheme by Goode in the unappealing thriller The Lookout

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as a fellow who has suffered serious head trauma, comes up with such a moody Method assemblage of twitches, tics, and guilty Memento mannerisms that he's not much fun to watch. The Lookout, the first movie directed by screenwriter Scott Frank (Out of Sight), is a thriller that wheezes along on bits and pieces of ''character.'' The hero gets hoodwinked by a local scuzz (Matthew Goode) into assisting in a bank robbery, which puts us in the unpleasurable position of feeling sorry for a protagonist too out-of-it to grasp what the audience already knows.

Originally posted Mar 28, 2007 Published in issue #928 Apr 06, 2007 Order article reprints

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