Sixty Second Movie Review

Film: The Lookout.

The Good: Jeff "Come to Michigan" Daniels.

The Bad: When the hero of your movie has brain damage, inevitably he's going to bore the audience. There's only so much repetition we can take, especially when it comes to the dismal routine of waking, showering, and eating spaghetti. It'd be better, too, if there were a murder involved or if the hero were enigmatic--you know tattooed with mnemonic clues so he could work his way backwards--and not just some rich high school hockey star suffering the repercussions of a cocky teenage lifestyle.

The Ugly: The film would be umteen times more interesting if when Luvlee finds the guns in the car and begins to realize the sinister things her boyfriend's up to, he embraces her and shows his own confusion. As it is, Matthew Goode's character becomes just unrefined evil. And Bones? A mute Swede with a trenchcoat and a penchant for firing sawed-off shotguns? C'mon. The indubitably cool image of a black figure standing over the flat snow fields of Kansas is not reason enough for such an empty creation.

Our Take: Two snobby fingers down.