The Lookout (2007) 7/10

The Lookout was on plenty of top ten of 2007 lists, and although it's good it's not top ten good.

The Lookout is about a young man with severe mental damage received in a car accident that was his fault. Fast forward a few years and he's barely surviving as a janitor at a bank living off of money given to him by his rich parents. He meets a confident popular man at a bar and becomes friends. Little does he know the man has hand picked him to be involved in a bank heist, planned for his bank.

The film has a great cast including Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Brick) and Jeff Daniels (Squid and the Whale, Dumb and Dumber) among others. Honestly Jeff Daniels does an amazing job playing the young man's blind friend. I'd really like to see a film starring that character. The main character's mental affliction is unique and helps set the film apart from any other heist gone wrong films but not really enough. There isn't anything new in the film although the film does what it sets out to perfectly. The film is solidly written, acted and directed but there's nothing that really makes it stand out either.

In the end The Lookout is a well constructed nicely paced well acted film, but lacks anything to make it stand out amongst other similarly themed films.

Overall - 7/10