Looker | Albert Finney, James Coburn

Looker | Albert Finney, James Coburn | Kinda offbeat but good

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Looker

	Looker Albert Finney, James Coburn Warner Home Video, 2007 average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A plastic surgeon (Albert Finney) gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways. With the help of Cindy (Susan Dey) the next in line to be killed he traces the deaths to a mysterious corporation which develops new technologies. Directed and written by Michael Crichton (Westworld Coma).Running Time: 93 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 085391112044 Manufacturer No: 111204

Looker

This is an excellent thriller for the time period in which it was created.

Kinda offbeat but good

This is a kinda offbeat but interesting movie. James Coburn and Albert Finny give somewhat believable performances. Susan Dey is very good, and there is more to this movie then seeing Laurie Partridge nude, however having said that, Susan Day nude is a plus. Some of the other cast need to take acting classes, and there is a change to see a young Tom Sellec lookalike.

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She's a Looker!!!

When I first saw this movie I thought it was wierd but then I fell in love with it. James Coburn, Albery Finney and the mustache guy who always plays an evil henchman were great. The movie starts out were models were murdered while their faces and bodies were copied for a big company for commericals. Albert Finney plays a plastic surgeon who's looking for answers then gets tangled into the mysterious web. A high-tech gun transforms people into freeze and do the person who used the weapon's bidding. James Coburn plays the mysterious head of the company who is possibly behind the mysterious murders of the models. Check it out if you want to really know. Great 80's movie.

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Wonderful old movie!

I'm so happy this movie came out on DVD. It has a very catchy theme song as well as a great story line.

LOOKER -- Crichton's future is once again too plausible

Though it doesn't stand up as well as I hoped it would after 20+ years, it still retains some of the fun elements that captivated me when I saw it as a teenager. And I'm not just talking about Laurie Partridge in the altogether....

Many of Crichton's novels and movies seem to be close kin to each other -- "Jurassic Park" isn't too far removed from "Westworld", and "Looker" even has a shade or two in common with "Runaway". Despite the overlapping premises, Crichton has a compellingly interesting way of portraying developing technologies as a weapon best left out of the hands of Corporate America, and Criminal America too, for that matter.

The developing technology in "Looker" might have seemed a bit absurdly fantastical in the film's day, but it sure looks reasonable now given the nature of the corporate segment the ill-used technology appeals to. Or perhaps I am just more cynical now than I was when the film came out.

As thrillers go this film is tame by today's standards but was sufficiently intruiguing back in the early 1980s. But everyone should have a few Michael Crichton films in their DVD libraries, and at the low price offered here I recommend you add this one.

Also get:

"Westworld"
"The Great Train Robbery"
"Coma" (from the Robin Cook novel but directed by Crichton)
"Runaway"
"Jurassic Park" (from Crichton's novel)
and "The Andromeda Strain" (also from a Crichton novel)

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