The Lookout

A bank heist is planned, with Joseph Gordon Levitt unknowingly being part of the plan until he is befriended by the bad guys. Jeff Daniels is his blind room mate who is similarly screwed up, as both have had accidents in their past to make living a normal life tough.

There is more to the story than that, but you get the idea.

The movie starts off kind of slow, with it more about establishing the characters of everybody in the movie, and driving the point home that the 3rd Rock From the Sun kid is fucked up because of the car accident he was in. Thinking back, with all of the character development, and one scene in particular in the coffee shop, I wish there was a payoff with him and the shrink lady, but we see her once and thats it.

Anyways, once the whole movie is set up, we get to the heist itself. This is where I became more interested, not that the other shit was bad, but I knew it was coming so I wanted to see it. This part moves by pretty quickly, maybe too quickly compared to the rest of the movie.

I dont really want to say much about it so as to not ruin anything, but there was some good action in there, nothing blow away. Some good acting, and Getty Lee from RUSH is one of the bad guys. Whether its really him or not, I am not sure.

Overall I liked the movie, didnt love it. I also dont know why people are blowing Levitt up to be the next big thing as I thought he was pretty good, but nothing blow away. I like him as an actor and all, I just hate when it seems like the big wigs are trying to push somebody as the next big thing, as opposed to it happening naturally.

3 and a half assholes out of 5. I'd say check it out if you have extra cash floating around, if not, wait two months and rent it. As I said, I liked it but didnt love it.

Jeff Daniels was good though. I think its the first thing I've seen him in since Dumb and Dumber. I am sure thats not true, but I cant remember anything since.


COMING SOON: Bloodrayne, Turistas, Children of Men, Shooter (with Marky Mark, not the biography of Shooter McGavin)