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My review of the French Police Thriller, The LookoutScore - 4/5
The Lookout: Directed by Michele Placido. With Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet, Francis Renaud. A detective hunts for the marksman who foiled the plan to catch a notorious team of bank robbers.
- (2.9K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Michele Placido
- 2012-09-05
The Lookout (French: Le guetteur, Italian: Il cecchino) is a French-Belgian-Italian crime film from 2012, directed by Michele Placido and starring Daniel Auteuil and Mathieu Kassovitz. It marked Placido's directorial debut outside Italy, as a result of the French box office success of his 2010 film Angel of Evil .
A cracking French thriller that involves a bank robbery and it's fallout. It opens with a spectacular heist scene, and grabs you from that moment on. I don't think I can recall a film in recent memory, that had a plot which moved as fast as this one did. The increasingly twisty screenplay uses a lot of characters, and it demands you keep up.
- An Accident, A Heist, and A Slick Script
- Why It Is Worth Your Time: The Little Neo-Noir That Could
- Conclusion: The Lookout
After a prom night accident, athlete Chris Pratt’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) life is drastically changed. As we learn in the opening moments, he tries to have a very regimented routine, after suffering a severe brain injury. Through his class, where he practices sequencing, he goes through his list of daily activities, and he’s floundering. He’s forge...
Written and directed by Scott Frank, the dialogue is sharp, yet sincere, and the conversations feel genuine because of the great ensemble cast. In ways, The Lookoutdraws inspiration from several films before it, but still manages to piece together a narrative that’s distinctive. As the movie builds, so does the pace, reminding you efficiently of th...
The Lookout boasts a talented cast and manages to be fun while maintaining suspense. It uses its strengths to keep you guessing, but it also ensures emotive heft. The movie could have easily been unbalanced, but instead it’s uniquely engaging. What will happen? Will he make it out of this? Check it out! The Lookout is available to watch on Sundance...
Sep 6, 2012 · This French-language feature from Italian actor-director Michele Placido ( Crime Novel, Angel of Evil) should run up decent homeland numbers thanks to stars Daniel Auteuil and Mathieu Kassovitz ...
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Sep 9, 2012 · Overview. When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves. Michele Placido.
