Looper
“Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.”
Director: Rian Johnson
Producer: Ram Bergman, James D. Stern
Overview
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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rookiebeotch
December 28, 2012
movie was a little slow and drawn out. action was ok but story was little weak.
- D6.0
Dark Jedi
March 24, 2013
I am normally fairly hesitant concerning time-travel movies because it is next to impossible to get them right. They more or less always become very unrealistic and full of paradoxes. I would almost go as far as to say that producers making serious (non-comedy) time travel movies are the ones that are scientifically to…
- A4.0
Andres Gomez
August 21, 2013
The plot is full of flaws. Quite like a even worse inception.
- J5.0
jw
December 18, 2019
neither here nor there Time travel can be an exciting plot device - if the writers take time to check and get everything right. Unfortunately, with Looper, they did not. Nor did director or producers choose a clear direction what this movie was supposed to be, what its pace and atmosphere should be like. So it turne…
5.0cineast78
February 9, 2023
**Half-baked and weak genre mix with a pale Bruce Willis** The main character is an anti-hero and isn't able to win the viewer over story emotionally - that would be OK if the story were at least coherent - but it isn't. The time travel logic doesn't work. The telekinesis nonsense seems incredibly pointless. The lov…