Undoubtedly, everything documentarian Darius Marder shows in his debut film Loot actually happened, but Marder’s approach to this “truth is stranger than fiction” story is so forced that the movie feels phony. Loot follows Lance Larson, a Utah used-car salesman and entrepreneur who spends his spare time hunting lost treasures from World War II. The movie opens with Larson staring into an empty pit after wasting $100,000 on one of his adventures, and then it tracks him as he cajoles two elderly veterans into helping him find what they stashed overseas. One of those veterans is Darrel Ross ...
- 12/3/2009
- avclub.com
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