what do you do when you are confronted with a situation where you have to plan a way to outwit a bunch of guys who has kidnappped your best friends and you even have to write down how to fix yourself dinner because your brain cannot handle remembering more than a few minutes of contents ? This is a damn good movie in my books reminding me a lot of another one of my favorites ... Memento. Joseph Gordon-Levitt play Chris Pratt which who life changes after being involved in a prom accident which damages his brain's frontal lobe ( a loooot of movies are using this as a plot device now ). What is this thing with hollywood movies always centering their plots around a theme for a given season ... before it was aliens .. then it was disasters ... now it's brain damage ?!
Anyways, back to the plot, a bunch of bank robbers headed by the charismatic Spargo capitilizing on Christ's disability tricks Chris into commit a crime. As events unfold, with his best friend in their grasp and being framed for a crime he did not commit, Chris's only way out is to outwit the robbers at their own game.
This is a well written thriller which takes a while to pick up but once going will hold you glued to your seat right until the credits roll. Gordon-Levitt's protrayal of Chris is believable and makes us feel his pain of loosing his life to an automobile accident while Matthew Goode's Spargo is charismatic and dangerous at the same time. Though I think the ending could have been better done especially in terms of Spargo's character, this film still earns a respectable 8.5/10 for me.
Cheering Stand Up Moment : The time when Gordon-Levitt's Chris is on the phone with Spargo screaming "The one with the money is the one with power", I lost it and shouted "Yeahhh !!! Alrighttt !!!". Watch out for it ..
A trailer of the movie ....
A good movie this .... thumbs up !
IMBD page : The lookout
The director also directed ...
3 comments:
Uik... I thot I saw 3 updates geh?
Lookout? Lookout for...? :p
umm... i watched this movie last week... i only liked the intro of the movie, the part where Chris was speeding into the night and he switched off the headlight. The sky was literally blanketed with stars and it was awesome. Makes u feel u r floating in space...
i skipped thru most of the scenes in the movie as they were kinda bland... but probably i'll revisit this movie since u liked it that much :)
Yups. Do that. To top it up watch it after seeing Memento. Good stuff.
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