Looker

As a kid I remember seeing the ads and posters for this and another flick starring Finney called Wolfen. I finally saw Wolfen and loved , and now I got to see looker. But didn’t love it quite as much! Some of the predictions about the digital future is spot on, particularly with that gun, which reminded me of this new virtual gun that can be down loaded from your computer! The case is currently before the courts. But everything else was hockey and slow. The acting seem awkward as nobody seemed sure as how to play it! The great ones like Coburn and particularly Finney seemed wasted. As much as I love Finney, he seemed miscast as the surgeon and the action hero. It is still a worth while movie to watch but not as good as I expected to be.

This right here is my most favorite movie every. Something very good about this movie ever since it came out--I can't quite figure out why I liked it so much. This is what we thought the future would be, and now with technology being able to reach the visual quality of reality and A.I., you can literally create a person digitally on film and you'll never know they were never really there to film it. I remember the intro lady & the male voice for the commercial for "Ravish" perfume. "Put a little behind your ear, a drop behind the knees would please, a dab a bit between your toe. Between my toe? You never know." "Ravish, it fulfills your deepest desires."--Looker movie epic wordages! That Looker theme song is the best 1980's jam ever! Love the arpeggio! Highly Recommended! BUY NOW!

I managed to miss this on its original release, and repeatedly thereafter. The basic premise is typical Michael Crichton — technology will eat us all — but it is slightly prescient, in the idea that digital reproduction could be a big thing, with actors and models being eliminated in favour of their electronic clones. The film itself, however, is a cheesy thriller with a bafflingly stupid plot in which a tech business mogul scans and digitally clones a series of supermodels, then has them killed in the most ludicrous ways (usually with the victims in lingerie.) This was done in the waning years of Crichton’s career as a director, and it wouldn’t be long before he went solely to novel writing. The film world, honestly, lost little.

I first watched this movie when I was 12 and have watched it several times in the past 30 years or so. Seeing Albert Finney in Skyfall as Kincade made me remember to buy this movie so I can watch it when I want. Definitely worth $10 and I think you will find it very entertaining worthy of movie night especially if you haven't seen it since the early 80's.

This movie is rough at many levels but that is what makes it watchable. It has a retro-cheese factor that can not be denied. If you watch it as a drama you will likely be very disappointed. Watch it as a comedy however and it becomes much more entertaining. Gigantic Mirror glasses as a first line of defense against world domination? How can you go wrong?