it was cool
Added 3/10/2010
While I'm not familiar with any of the actors/actresses in the movie. I find that to be a good thing sometimes.
Look...It's a different way of filming and looking at things. As the movie progresses through the eyes several different characters throughout. Yes, this style has been done before but with "Look". It seems a bit different and adds a bit to the movie as a whole. I would recommend it to fans of this style of movie. If nothing else give it a chance via renting and then form a different opinion of this yourself.
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Who's Watching You?
Added 1/5/2010
Director Adam Rifkin does it again, with this new smash hit entitled LOOK. A film shot all entirely through the POV of survelience cameras from start to finish. LOOK has you on the edge of your seats and has you wondering what is to happen next as your watching the shocking and terrifying events that the characters do and go through in which all the stories interlude with each other. It's a very serious/dark film that is well done (on a low budget) and shows the world of how it really is, and how people really are. This is like NO other film and deserves more credit than it has, so sit back relax and watch LOOK. For a low budget film, LOOK sure LOOK's professional (and is!)and has you hooked right from the opening sequence.
With a great cast, excellent music/story, and Amazing direction, LOOK is an inspirational piece of art to the INDEPENDENT film world that changes the way we see life as it records us unknowingly.
CHECK IT OUT NOW AND SUPPORT ADAM RIFKIN AND INDEPENDENT FILM.
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One step beyond CRASH and SHORT CUTS...
Added 12/15/2009
Not a movie for paranoids, it definitely feeds a certain misanthropy. At first, I thought it might be from actual security cameras, but the film is, indeed, fiction. While being a nagging reminder of the plusses and minuses of our constant surveillance, the film does a great job at creating emotional arcs that often made me forget I was watching a series of security-cam edits. The film was honest... uncomfortably so. It makes a good case for humans being pretty sleazy. It also does a fairly good job of mitigating the sleaze and paranoia by showing good people doing good things and security cams used for the forces of justice. I won't say it was too little too late, because I liked the movie a lot, but the saving moments are really last-minute. Overall, a movie like this was inevitable and I'm glad to see that its execution was handled so deftly. If you enjoyed CRASH -- another great Los Angeles film about intertwined lives, this should also appeal to you. The stories are engaging, the acting is solid, and the directing/writing is incredibly nimble and confident.
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Interesting Premise; Horrible Execution
Added 10/7/2009
After about 20 minutes I disliked this film. The potential, how cool is this, security camera footage blended together into a story? What an awesome idea. Oh but what a bad film, so poorly made.
The film opens with these very serious titles, there's some bazillions of hours of security camera footage, every American is filmed at least some incredible number of times a day... And then what does the film cut to? Two girls naked in a changing room. Yes they are both very cute, they have very pretty bodies, and nobody can ever deny that. But come on Adam Rifkin, could he have chosen a more hackneyed, prurient choice? Any belief that this might be some form of documentary or study of security camera video, as the opening titles suggest; went 100% completely out the window. The film follows a number of stories and people that ultimately cross paths and end up with a very neat tidy bow at the end of the film. Sadly, just about every cliché imaginable is covered in this film.
From a technical standpoint, the concept of security camera works for about 5 minutes. Nobody wants to watch an almost two hour movie of grainy, out of focus, fixed position cameras. So Rifkin decided to do away with that concept, and only occasionally reminds us that this is supposed to be surveillance cameras. The film has virtually no rhythm. It tries to create some complication by cutting between story lines. In the end, he spends infinitely too much time in the convenience store, and just about every other set he's chosen. Near the end some cutting between stories gets an interesting pace; otherwise, the whole film just plods along. In fact the salt in the wound, there's several scenes where Rifkin fast forwards the video tape, so we don't have to sit listening to some character natter on about nothing. The worst part of this, in the extended scene bonus features; he plays each of those scenes out - there's 45 minutes of this garbage.
The film is rated R, and deserves every bit of that rating. There's no fear in showing Tony having sex with several female employees of the department store; a male shipping clerk masturbating behind his computer; and the two girls trying on clothes. But all the male parts are pixellated. It is pathetic. There's plenty of strong language. Drug use. And violence.
The bonus features are just horrible. They are incredibly long and tiresome. There is a reel of extended scenes. Another reel of director deleted scenes (the last one of this series is so worth watching, it is the only funny moment in the film that isn't included in the film). Another reel of 'behind the scenes,' where somebody with an absolutely awful voice talks about the preproduction and production work of this film. It is one of the worst films of this type I've ever seen. If anyone could stand to watch this film over again, there is director commentary.
Such a bad film. Every cliché in the world is shown. The concept was decent, but the actual film is just plain pitiful.
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LOOK is not what I expected!
Added 9/24/2009
This video documentary has some interesting points, but its production values are poor and amateurish. I found it difficult to finish watching the documentary, simply because it didn't hold my interest. I admit am not a documentary fan, but with all due respect to the production team, this one just didn't hit the spot for me.
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