Scott Frank
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Like Guy Pearce in "Memento," the title character in writer-director Scott Frank's "The Lookout" needs to write notes to himself so he won't forget what he has to do each day.
Just don't expect another "Memento," despite the superficial similarities.
The story may sound reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's "Memento."
Thrillers featuring characters with short term memory problems risk being mentioned alongside Memento, and that comparison does not favor The Lookout.
The Lookout is Memento set in Mayberry, without any chronological conundrums.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as a fellow who has suffered serious head trauma, comes up with such a moody Method assemblage of twitches, tics, and guilty Memento mannerisms that he's not much fun to watch.
But thankfully " A Walk Among the Tombstones " strolled in not giving a damn about anyone's expectations and delivered a crime thriller well worth your time in the same vein as "Killing Them Softly" and "Zodiac."
David Fincher got eerily close in Zodiac.
From there the film gets unpleasant in a hurry, with the killers ogling a teenage girl in slow motion to the tune of Donovan’s “Atlantis” – a feeble facsimile of David Fincher’s use of “Hurdy Gurdy Man” in his serial killer epic, “Zodiac.”
In many ways, “The Lookout” most resembles the neo-noirs of John Dahl from the ’90s, like “Red Rock West” and “The Last Seduction”.
(Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2007's "The Lookout" was a much smarter movie involving a traumatic brain injury.)
Like Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “The Lookout,” McAdams communicates the alienating, post-brain injury frustration of searching for something upstairs behind a door that refuses to be unlocked.
The Bone Collector (1999)
Directed by Phillip Noyce
influenced A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Plot
As the film shambles along, Frank infers other thematic concerns, from alcoholism and gun control to the nature of vengeance and jealousy, but they all come to be little more than window dressing for a run-of-the-mill detective story in line with '90s thrillers like The Bone Collector.
The 1963 setting allows for retro delights in Strickland's lab and the pie shop Giles frequents until his pass at the Pie Guy (Morgan Kelly, "The Lookout") goes horribly awry.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Directed by Tom Six
influenced A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Themes
For another, it would give The Human Centipede a run for its money.
Sergio Di Zio ("The Boondock Saints," "Cinderella Man"), a young David Paymer lookalike, is also incredibly sympathetic as 'Deputy Donut,' the naive small town cop who checks up on Chris (although Frank's final placement of the character is akin to shooting puppies in a barrel) and Greg Dunham, a shadowy Sam Shepard double, is evil personified as the black clad henchman Bone.