Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 14
Though Adam Rifkin's voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
Though Adam Rifkin's voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.
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At times, it seems video surveillance is omnipresent in America, and Adam Rifkin (Underdog) spends the better part of two hours asserting just that in his fiction feature Look. This motion picture gains a historical footnote as the first U.S. mainstream movie to depict events solely through the "eyes" of surveillance video cameras. The preponderance of action unfurls in San Fernando Valley offices, stores, and shopping malls, where we witness security-camera footage of character interactions and
Dec 14, 2007 Limited
May 5, 2009
Liberated Artists
All Critics (37) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (14) | DVD (3)
The performances feel natural, improvised, and it's easy to believe this is the world we inhabit.
There are some funny moments, plus occasional nudity and sex, but the joke quickly wears off. What might have worked as a half-hour TV show doesn't suit itself to a feature-length film.
Orwell would have loved it.
With its emphasis on its interweaving stories, the movie offers no commentary on the phenomenon of increasingly pried-apart privacy, positive or negative.
Look, an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance.
Beginning and ending his film with a strip tease, Rifkin suggests some leering adolescent who's gotten his hands on a pair of X-ray glasses and sees nothing but randy, flatulent fools in his midst.
Rifkin has a cynical view of human behavior and he plays it for cheap titillation and bleak humor, which is mean-spirited at best and glib at worst.
By the end, you're ready to call for the abolition of video surveillance, if only so that you can stop watching all these irritating characters.
Not much is what you get with this bargain-basement attempt at Altman. It has 'direct to video' written all over it
If Crash had been this interesting it might have deserved that Oscar; this movie lacks polish but that is precisely what makes it work. It's a very interesting experiment, one which I found entertaining, nervewracking, and rewarding.
The effectiveness of it in capturing our attention attests to very fine writing and editing which serve the mockumentary framework with immediate gripping power.
This could have amounted to nothing more than a clever trick, but it's much more than that.
If the idea is that we're always being watched, why does it seem that in this movie, no one's really paying attention?
Rifkin skillfully interweaves plotlines in a way that makes this currently much overused device seem perkily adroit rather than tiresome.
This is a great example of what you can do with not a lot of money as long as you're willing to think outside the box.
Rifkin's film is surprisingly compelling, if not up to dealing with the larger political issues it raises.
Look just wallows in the shameful acts. Nobody need watch.
Some of this isn't easy to watch, but it's all worth a Look.
heavy on concept, not content
I expected a lot more from this movie then what I got. Lots of T&A, beautiful young women, not real point other then we are on camera where ever we go and when someone wants to use it against us they will. One of those put the kids to bed early movies. Really not a Movie but a Documentary. 1/2 star, pointless.
June 16, 2009Super Reviewer
The stated intention of "Look" is to show how much time we spend being captured on cameras, by staging the action as if it was being filmed by security cameras. So far, so good. But the movie cheats by including dialogue that would not normally be taped, robbing the movie of any ambiguity that the far superior "Red
March 4, 2010Super Reviewer
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