Looking Glass

R

Released Feb 16, 2018

1 hr. 44 min.

Mystery & Thriller

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22%

23 Reviews

Tomatometer

10%

100+ Ratings

Audience Score

Ray must race to save his wife and himself from a gruesome secret connected to a desert hotel and the strange people who visit there.

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Critics Consensus

Looking Glass gives Nicolas Cage a chance to turn in an atypically understated performance, but this is still a suspense thriller with a fatal dearth of suspense or thrills.

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Martin B

Cage earns it 3 stars but it is as bad as the ratings suggest. Superficial is the only way to define it. All the characters and plot superficial, very linear with no sub plots that are explored, camera on Nick Cage all the time the way most of his movies are. A predictible ending, Cage commits multiple felonies then gets in his truck and drives away like they ran out of money and had to end it as if running resolved anything.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/26/24

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Mark B

Not horrible but not good. Kind of a who cares. You think there will be some sinister reveal that the movie builds to. There is not.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/24

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Dinos K

Classic Nicolas Cage's movie. Since 2000 he only makes mindless, weird movies with only reason to make wonderful memes. It's so sad cause Cage was once a good actor

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/08/24

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Giorgio G

An interesting idea, unfortunately completely ruined by a lousy script and a very mediocre director. When the movie could actually end with a bang and make it worthwhile, it just receices a simple "Plop", which leaves you with the thought: WtF??? For this I had been watching Nicolas and Robin for nearly 2 hours?! Even I could have done a better directing job. 3 1/2 out of 10 points. P.S: When it comes to the actors and their performances Bill Bolender as the ex-owner of the motel is the only one who does a great job, and he only appears for a few minutes. The others are all extremely pale as if they were tired and just wanted to do the minimum to get their paychecks and leave.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/13/23

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This movie doesn't show the symbolic meanings because of the stupid story.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/14/23

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Stoner J

A decent enough mystery flick, unfairly panned, but I see why. Bottom line is it does keep you guessing why all the secrecy in this small town and, we'll most of the mystery coming to light at the end, except for why everyone requests room number 10???. It is rather annoying though how cage just doesn't open his mouth to communicate with ANYBODY the whole time but I'm glad I gave this a try.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/18/23

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Tim Hunter

Director

Nicolas Cage

Ray

Robin Tunney

Maggie

Marc Blucas

Howard

Ernie Lively

Tommy

Jacque Gray

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Eric Kohn

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The result is a hollow vehicle that Cage simply floats through on autopilot, and he peers through a mirror at a more exciting world beyond his grasp, it's impossible not to relate.

Rated: D

Feb 20, 2018

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Joe Leydon

Variety

Nicolas Cage dials it down a few notches for a derivate thriller about strange doings at a desert motel.

Feb 18, 2018

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

For Cage, this is a big step back toward respectability.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 16, 2018

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

Looking Glass is a surprisingly not unhinged Nicolas Cage film that works.

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 12, 2020

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Ryan Pollard

Starburst

Despite being billed as a suspense thriller, there is zero suspense throughout, questions that are raised never answered satisfyingly, and even as it throws a twist towards the end, there are so few characters here that you just don't give a damn about.

Rated: 2/10

Apr 6, 2018

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Alex Arabian

Film Inquiry

Looking Glass wastes its talented cast on poor writing filled with clich after clich, an odd and uninviting artistic vision from the ground up, thinly developed characters, and an overabundance of narratives and plot devices.

Mar 2, 2018

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Synopsis

Ray must race to save his wife and himself from a gruesome secret connected to a desert hotel and the strange people who visit there.

Director: Tim Hunter
Executive Producer: Arianne Fraser, Kurt Kittleson, Ross Otterman, Delphine Perrier
Screenwriter: Jerry Rapp
Distributor: Momentum Pictures
Production Co: Highland Film Group
Rating: R (Sexual Content|Language|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 16, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 16, 2018

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