2007 · thriller · crime · drama
The Lookout
Directed by Scott Frank1h 39m2007
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Our read: The Lookout (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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