Looper

2012 "Hunted by your future, haunted by your past."
7.4| 1h58m| R| en
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In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

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ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
memebigboy-98803 Looper takes a dump idea and makes it interesting, the acting is well done not sure how i feel about the makeup on the main character, it's interesting to see protagonist and antagonist are the same person, the future looks realistic in this film, overall go watch it it's very interesting
benjaminweber First of all, there was some attempt to make an original time travel film here. Secondly, it was well-acted by everyone in the cast, including the child actors. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were great choices for the hardened, older and brash, younger versions of the same man. It is well scored, and well directed. Sadly, this cannot save a film that has a hastily written plot just to make a time travel film.The central premise of the film, that in the future time travel is used to send people back in time to be assassinated because it is impossible to dispose of bodies, is immediately flawed when you realise they could just send the dead body back in time and directly into a furnace, cutting out the middleman. This is particularly of note when we see gangsters actually kill a civilian in the future, indicating they're more than happy to do the deed just to keep their operations silent and that they more than likely kill just as many in the future as they send back. So again, why bother with time travel, especially seeing as the film emphasises that time travel is especially illegal?!The actual mechanisms of time travel seem to be as confused as the reasons for it as well. It spends a lot of time setting up that when someone travels into the past, changes to the past only catch up with them once they pass the point when the change physically occurs. There is one scene making this gruesomely clear, in which a young looper is dismembered as his older self falls apart on the street outside. This is later reinforced with Bruce Willis' memories. This raises another fundamental question with the plot: why did the Rainmaker rise to power on account of his rough upbringing before Bruce Willis travelled back in time to cause his rough upbringing? In Willis' future, he shot his older self as a young man and never went near the farm, meaning the Rainmaker would not exist, at least not as a hardened criminal. He would have no one to stop upon travelling to the past, and would not have even had his loop closed since the Rainmaker was the one closing the loops. As a side note on the same topic, why did he vanish when Gordon-Levitt shot himself? As established earlier, he should have simply turned into a corpse!These weren't the only two issues I had with the plot, but they were the two that really crippled it for me. The earlier throwaway line about telekinesis seemed like forced foreshadowing in hindsight, but at least didn't create plot holes. There were other issues, but I've already written too much! 5/10
Pjtaylor-96-138044 'Looper (2012)' is surprisingly dark and properly grisly at times, especially during its first act. It navigates its complex, non-pandering sci-fi premise with poise and aplomb, but does take quite a turn around its mid-point while also including quite a few odd character choices that see our protagonist betray himself in more ways than one. Still, it's an entertainingly pulpy and simultaneously intelligent affair, blending its grandiose themes with its gritty presentation almost impeccably. It knows exactly what it is while also conveying its deeper messages, though they can be diluted at times through strange conceits and annoying - if interesting - characters introduced fairly late into the flick. The flick is always trying to do something unique and equally impressive even when it falls a little short of doing so. 7/10
Carlos André The idea of this movie is incredible, also execution of it, in fact, everything with this film it's amazing.Starting with the concept, I never saw something like that in other media, maybe there is something like that, but unless, I didn't now any, so the movie improve even more.Some movies has amazing ideas, but fail on the execution. That's not the case here. The structure of it works since the beginning, when the editing is use to explain in a gradual way all the things that you need to know, while set some pieces that will be very useful in the future. Amazing script, amazing direction, amazing editing.The cast is terrific too. Joseph Gordon-Levitt simply destroys in the main role, I think I never had seeing him on a action role (or something like that) so it was a very good surprise for me. Bruce Willis is awesome too, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, you know, the cast is fantastic. Another performance that deserves to be honor is the little kid, Pierce Gagnon, who plays Cid. Every time that he spoke I was like "WOW", you know, there's no big deal about the role, but he is thinking to sound like a little genius guy, and it works very well! He had like 8 years at the time? Less? I don't know, but really impress me. Well, and this is another point to the directing of Rian Johnson, good performance of the whole cast, almost always has the "finger" of a good director.Maybe the only thing that someone can say about the movie is some "cliches" that it may fall into. Like, you know that "Blue Kid" will do some dumb thing and screw up in some point, you get very fast too that the kid is the rainmaker, but come on! It's fine, it's almost impossible do some kind of film, book or anything else without something like that, it's impossible be 100% unpredictable this days, and besides that, I was always thinking that I knew what is going too happening next, but I almost always was wrong.In short, Looper is a fantastic movie, I can't recommend you more too see it. And OMG I'm EVEN MORE EXCITED FOR THE LAST JEDI NOW! But seriously, I'm can't wait to see more of Rian Johnson's movies, this was my first one, and I'm already a fan.9,5/10