The Lookout
Directed: Scott Frank
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino
A star high school athlete losing his dreams when a car accident leaves him with certain mental deficiencies. He’s working as a janitor at a bank when he gets pulled into a robbery scheme.
Even though I never watched Third Rock From the Sun, I have always enjoyed the movies that I have seen with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I enjoyed him in this movie too as Chris, a guy who is hurt in a bad car accident. He was convincing as the hockey athlete before the accident and then the guy who isn’t completely all there and a little slow after the accident. He seems just fine, but then something really simple throws him for a loop, like counting change. It would just hang him up, he’d stumble and try to work through it. Sometimes he could and other times, he would get so frustrated, it was heartbreaking.
The story itself wasn’t spectacular and easy to predict. I found the characters and their interaction more interesting. He lives with a blind roommate and they make a nice combo since his roommate is very patient with Chris and what he is lacking. His roommate also sees what potential Chris still has if he is given the chance, which his parents have pretty much given up on him since he is no longer perfect.
It does become a bit unpredictable when the bank robbery happens and I wasn’t really sure where it was going, but I did enjoy the ending. It wrapped things up nicely.
Rating: B+
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Cobra Commander in the upcoming live-action GI Joe movie!
You mean this guy?
Excellent.
I actually think he’ll be wearing the chrome face guard since it’s supposed to be the origin story. Maybe he’ll wear both!
From wikimedia.org
The most notable appearance of the character in a Transformers story took place in the third season of the Transformers cartoon (1986), in the episode “Only Human”. Set in the then-future year 2006, a trenchcoated figure — going by the name “Old Snake” — is approached by crime lord Victor Drath, who wishes to purchase synthoid technology, as seen in a few episodes of the GI Joe cartoon series.
This thread just got a whole lot pointier. Look at all that finger pointing!