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The Lookout Trailer - The funniest home videos are here
This trailer managed to do two things to me. First, it confused me. For example, the main character is brain damaged and has to write things in a little notebook. Does that mean he has memory problems? Or what? What does his condition entail? How does it affect the action in the movie? How does it make it more interesting? And is the Jeff Daniels character his shrink? What is this start at the end thing all about? Is the movie structured in some novel way?
Second, it made the parts I could understand seem pretty trivial and unoriginal. Like they could have been taken from any other crime thriller. Hot girl as bait, sleazy guy gets hero involved in heist, tries to screw hero afterwards, hero fights back. Whatever.
I have the impression that The Lookout is a smarter film than the trailer indicates. That impression comes from the people involved, the bits of reviews I have read and the general plot synopsis. But by itself, the trailer would make me think this was a a confused, mess of a movie.