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Looker

Looker

1981
Drama, Sci-fi
1h 33m
A plastic surgeon gets suspicious when models he has operated on begin to die in mysterious ways. With the help of Cindy, the next in line to be killed, he traces the deaths to a mysterious corporation which develops new technologies. (imdb)
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Looker

1981
Drama, Sci-fi
1h 33m
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Avg Percentile 38.27% from 118 total ratings

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Rated 05 Aug 2012
5
28th
That's not to say that the film can't be enjoyed as good cheese, however -- there are some amusingly inept moments (watch for the car "crashing" into the fountain), and the few special effects are decent enough. Overall, Looker is probably more interesting as a historical piece than as a thriller -- though it's dated badly on a number of levels, the ideas of dehumanization and artifice that it puts forth were, for 1981, surprisingly forward-thinking.
Rated 24 Jul 2023
55
39th
Terri Welles is, indeed, a looker and it's too bad she's not the female lead. The first half of the film is enticingly mysterious but Crichton kind of pisses it all away.
Rated 26 May 2009
0
12th
A too deeply submerged mystery movie. It's evident immediately that something funny is going on, but it takes exasperatingly long to find out just what. Mind-control through TV commercials turns out to be Crichton's primary bone to pick -- a well-picked bone, of course, long before he gets hold of it. Even his most original concept -- some sort of flashlight gun that hypnotizes and paralyzes -- comes to seem old and worn-out by the time he is through playing with it.
Rated 20 Mar 2008
68
24th
If you want to see a really dated 80's movie, here's my pick
Rated 15 Mar 2016
27
10th
Some good ideas. But a plot hole as huge as can be, it never explains why the models get killed.
Rated 28 Feb 2009
40
21st
"As you can imagine there are too many things going on here and the film suffers from it."
Rated 23 Feb 2007
50
35th
Not bad.
Rated 07 Oct 2008
70
61st
All I remember was an intriguing premise and a silly ending
Rated 31 Mar 2007
50
33rd
Could have been a lot better done
Rated 14 Jan 2009
100
95th
80s sci-chedelic fun... Light Oriented Ocular Kinetic Emotive Response!
Rated 23 Jun 2012
53
18th
53.000
Rated 11 Aug 2019
30
15th
Neat characters and premise but the movie never really went anywhere. It could have been a decent thriller, mystery, horror...instead they defaulted to bland action. Fav scene: ridiculous car chase scene in which Finney keeps covering his eyes in reaction to getting shot at, even though earlier in the movie we're shown that it's too quick to react to.
Rated 15 Aug 2020
50
13th
There's a kernel of a good idea in this movie, but it's execution is ridiculously sloppy. The plot is so rife with holes that it actually forgets to provide any reason for the murders. Probably realizing that "extremely effective commercials" is hardly the biggest threat, Crichton throws in the idea that they are also putting hypnotic suggestions in the commercials, but he doesn't bother to explain what their goal is.
Rated 03 Apr 2023
90
52nd
For a sci-fi action, this is kind of in a class by itself. Very unique plot, and it was quite entertaining overall.
Rated 25 Jan 2024
70
72nd
Anticipates AI frenzy in decades by creating a conspiracy around big billion-dollar corp running scientific commercials with computer-generated actors -- mostly already beautiful young actress trying to make it in LA -- and a new flashing light tech to hypnotize viewers and make them buy this or that, vote for that senator. Songs are a blast, Finney delivers and what about that crazy climax -- dudes firing virtual and real guns while ads are being made live with AI and real settings.

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