Director: Rian Johnson
Story: Rian Johnson
Camera: Steve Yedlin
Studio: FilmDistrict
Release date:September 28, 2012
Running time:118 minutes
Rian Johnson’s stunning science-fiction thriller "Looper" is a movie that works because it takes time travel seriously.The movie begins with a fascinating premise: In the future, about 2070 or so, time travel will be invented but it will be outlawed, and only crime syndicates will be able to use it. Also, crime lords will take care of matters by sending unwanted people 30 years into the past, where assassins called "loopers" will wait to kill the person and burn the evidence.
In Kansas, 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a "looper" and gets paid handsomely for his work. Silver ingots are strapped to his victims just before they are sent back to him. Joe saves his money, except for what he uses to buy the era’s current designer drug and entertain his stripper girlfriend (Piper Perabo).
Joe knows he won’t live forever, because at some point the bosses in the future will "close the loop" by sending his older self back to be killed. His best friend, played by Paul Dano, becomes a case study in why it’s not smart to "let your loop run" allowing your future self to live as Johnson reveals in an early sequence that’s cleverly shocking.
But when Joe does meets his older self (played by Bruce Willis), something interesting happens. Actually, two interesting things happen. Johnson shows us the aftermath of one outcome which leads to another outcome 30 years later. Without getting all timey-wimey, just know that there’s a multileveled chase as young Joe tries to find old Joe, while old Joe embarks on a desperate mission of his own.
Website: http://www.loopermovie.com/
Review Courtesy: www.sltrib.com/movies
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