28/11/2013

The Lookout (2007)

Chris Pratt (John Gordon-Levitt) is a former high school hockey star who's life (and others more seriously) is changed forever whilst showing off with friends, his memory is handicapped, constantly making notes as reminders. He hooks up with some 'random' strangers in a bar, the cool sophisticated hip Gary (Mathew Goode) and starts a relationship with the sexy and sassy Luvlee (Isla  Fisher) but soon he realises he is being manipulated to conspire in the robbery of a bank he works at as a Janitor.

I'd never heard off this movie and only saw it advertised on Netflix one night, Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels and Isla Fisher in a heist movie, got to be worth a play, and boy was it worth it. A heist drama like no other, quite low key, with thoroughly engaging characters, Gordon-Levitt is always a great screen presence and this movie is no different, this guy is one of the best young actors out there, an ingenious intelligent and engrossing movie, well worth seeking out.

*****

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