In the year 2044 time travel has not yet been invented. But in 30 years it will have been...
Willis does the time warp. again
Here's what I've got to say about Looper. It's incredible! It deserves all the praise that it's already gained and more, Looper is, put simply the film of the year; and here's why.
Before I even sat down to watch Looper I was excited, I only knew the outline; which I picked up from the trailer. Set at some point in the future, time travel has been invented but was immediately outlawed by the authorities, only drug barons and gangsters use it now, and they use it for only one reason. To send someone back to the past, to have them assassinated! That's a film I want to see without adding any other elements to it, but Looper is so much more than it's premise.
You know what makes a good film great? It's the tiny things, the little touches, they are what will elevate a film from being cool to amazing, and Looper has details in spades. I could if I chose to use the rest of this review to simply list of all the tiny little details that makes Looper exceptional, but instead I'll site only one. When Emily Blunt's character is first introduced she is shown doing a strange mime which looks highly illogical, until later when all becomes clear.
OK I'll admit it, half way through I did get scared that Looper was going to go all "Twelve Monkeys" on me, not that that's a bad movie to develop into, especially when you have Bruce Willis in your movie; but I knew that Looper had so much more still to give, to create and to challenge, and challenge it does. I suppose at points you do feel like Looper borrows a little too heavily from other movies, but really I can forgive it for that, like Wild Bill in Silence Of The Lambs, it's controversial to wear other peoples skins.
Looper asks us the most hardest of questions of all to face, I won't reveal it here as that's somewhat of a plot spoiler but needless to say, it stays with you. Of course the other nice thing about Looper is, if you want it to be, it's just a cool little sci-fi action movie and nothing more, Looper like The Matrix and the original Total Recall works on more than one level. If you want to see something easy going, see Looper. If you want to see something more see Looper, and if you want to see something mind bending see Looper.
Looper is so much of a visual frenzy, with distinctive ideas that it demands a second viewing, there is no way you can take everything the movie has to offer in, on the first viewing, it is simply impossible. For a start the plot charges towards you with no rest period from beginning to end and the story goes into some truly dark territories (the murdering of innocent children in cold blood, is a complicated sequence to justify), and the direction is in a league of it's own.
Looper's writer and director is a relative unknown in Rian Johnson, I say unknown I'm sure his pervious body of work is strong. However, Looper is made with such precision, such poise, such grace and sophistication; it's hard to imagine a Nolan or a Speilberg or a Scott didn't have a hand in the creation somewhere. The style in which the film is made is second to none, every shot is framed perfectly and the camera work is fluid, the special effects are well paced and somehow Johnson has set Looper in the future, but not in one we couldn't imagine.
One of Looper's best assets is the two main leads, in Joseph Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis both playing Joe in different time periods. Both of these men can carry a film all on their own, so when both join together, it is an unstoppable force (in Levitt's climb to the top) with an immovable object (in Willis' charisma) , needless to say they both bring out the best in each other. A nice element to the movie is that you are always switching sides; there are points where young Joe is the hero, then old Joe, then young again. Ultimately, Looper is a movie without a hero, there is no clear cut good or bad, and it doesn't pretend to give you all the answers.
I suppose one of the most impressive parts of Looper is that the film is out and out just nasty, there are whole sequences that look like they could have walked out of any graphic horror movie you care to name, but of course they are only used to build the tension and build the films' momentum.
Looper is Back To The Future for adults, it's a film that doesn't give you all the answers and asks a lot of questions, it's a thinking man's movie, and I love it!
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play. In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - 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 (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce. Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, Pierce Gagnon, Qing Xu, Tracie Thoms, Frank Brennan, Garret Dillahunt, Nick Gomez, Marcus Hester & Jon Eyez Director Rian Johnson Certificate 15 years and over Year 2012 Screen 1.78:1 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles English
Sci-fi action film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. In the year 2042, time travel exists but is available only on the black market. When the mob wants to kill someone, they send the target 30 years into the past, where they have employed a contract killer to eliminate them. Joe (Gordon-Levitt) works as one of these mob hitmen, killing people whom the mob has sent back in time from the year 2072. But when he recognises one of the targets (Willis) as his own future self, Joe must figure out how to redirect the future and save his own life.
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