Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Bruce Willis

Emily Blunt

Paul Dano

Noah Segan

Piper Perabo

Jeff Daniels

Pierce Gagnon

Xu Qing

Tracie Thoms

Frank Brennan

Garret Dillahunt

Nick Gomez

Marcus Hester

Jon Eyez

Kevin Stillwell

Thirl Haston

James Landry Hébert

Kenneth Brown Jr.

Cody Wood

Adam Boyer

Jeff Chase

Ritchie Montgomery

David Jensen

Kamden Beauchamp

Josh Perry

David Joseph Martinez

Wayne Dehart

Ian Patrick

Craig Johnson

Robert Harvey

Sylvia Jefferies

Lauren Alexandra

D.J. Mills

Brea Grant

Sam Medina

Rhonda Floyd Aguillard

Jay Amor

Amy Le

Wayne Douglas Morgan

Kristyl Dawn Tift

Dallas West

Steve Yedlin

Rian Johnson

Ram Bergman

Douglas Hansen

Mary Vernieu

Sharen Davis

Bob Ducsay

Lindsay Graham Ahanonu

Nathan Johnson

Peter Schlessel

James D. Stern

Julie Goldstein

Ed Verreaux

Han Soto

Greg Uddo

Tom Sicola

John Zimmerman

Wendy Talazac

Tara Feldstein Bennett

Brandon Hemmerling

Mike Wilson

Elena Sanchez

Lisa Mae Fincannon

Craig Fincannon

Ashley Carmichael

Alec Rayme

Lex D. Geddings

Shaun Grant

Stanton Barrett

Bruce Sanders Jr.

Matthew R. Staley

William Scharpf

Joe Nin Williams

Eric VanArsdale

Greg Sproles

Stuart F. Wilson

Sean Paul Braud

Tony Vo

Eric Salas

Mike Mayhall

Junwei Liu

Adam Gomez

Christian J. Fletcher

Tom Proctor

Dion Lam

Andy Abele

Ross Morgan Ruben

Tom Akos

Jeff Brockton

Rose Leiker

Chris Bryant

Chuck Picerni Jr.

Amy Lee

Tim Bell

Trace Cheramie

Emily Brobst

Brian Oerly

Pok Yan Leung

Hunter Baxley

Eddie Matthews

Regis Harrington

Andy Cheng

Brian Nguyen

John Bernecker

Katherine Verreaux

Nikki I Brown

James A. Gelarden

Kristin Lekki

Dale Myrand

Alan Markfield

Scott Plauche

Leoisick Castro

Melizah Anguiano Wheat

Stacy Kelly

Tony Ward

Dana Kay Hart

Yvonne Bastidos

Sam Sullivan

John Houlihan

Karen E. Goulekas

Christopher C. Chen

David Pomier

Drew DeAscentis

Eleanor Nett

Joseph Kirkland

Lucas Smith

Steven Ritzi

Mark Edward Wright

Ryan Lott

Dan Mintz

Kazu Hiro

Jaron Presant

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Ram Bergman Productions

United States of America

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At the start this reminded me a little of “Jumper” (2008) as it delivers a cleverly crafted idea of how murder might look in the 22nd century. It’s the ruthless “Joe” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is in the employ of the mob and is routinely and lucratively waiting for their troublemakers to be sent back a few decades in time so he can eliminate them and leave no modern day traces of the crime.  The snag with this operation for the “looper” is, though, that sooner or later they themselves have to get rubbed out and so as they age, they (now Bruce Willis) have to anticipate that they will be attacked. It’s Bruce who has well prepared for this eventuality and manages to thwart the attempts of his younger self - thanks to some well placed gold bars - and that leaves them both playing a deadly game of cat and mouse so as not to earn the enmity of their maniacal boss (Jeff Daniels). This is one of my favourite time travel action movies with an on form action hero in Willis looking like he is enjoying himself being chased by his own heroin addicted alter-ego, and each time the story resets it does so with additional information about not just these characters but also of the world that they are indirectly helping to create in the future. This helps stop this becoming a repetitive recycling of events and the arrival of the young “Sara” (Emily Blunt) and her own son (Pierce Gagnon) who has his own form of superpower adds a familial dynamic to the mystery that augments rather clutters up the mystery. There are visual effects but they are used sparingly, and despite a slight dry spell in the middle whilst the story seems to recalibrate a little, it’s held together well by two stars who enter into the spirit of the things and by a plot that’s eerily realistic (in a “Dr. Who” sort of fashion). It’s not perfect, but it is quirky, imaginative and I enjoyed it.

<em>'Looper'</em> is entertaining!

I had a fun time with this one. I guess that would come as little surprise given I do like basically everyone onscreen from other flicks, while that is true that isn't the sole reason for my enjoyment. The story is intruiging and is presented nicely by the filmmakers, I found it to be well paced too.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a strong performance, even with make-up that occasionally makes him look just like Sean Connery's 'disguise' in 1967's <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/you-only-live-twice/">You Only Live Twice</a>'</em>. Bruce Willis is solid throughout, as are Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels. There are a few other noteworthy faces in there too, like Paul Dano and Garret Dillahunt.

Well made and well worth a watch. Recommended.

**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 love story(s) is or are hardly comprehensible. And many plot elements are started without being brought to a meaningful end. Too bad - there was potentials there. So the whole thing is nothing more than a solid ordinary movie, despite all the genres that are (unnecessarily) mixed up in it.

The only ray of light for me in the movie: The mask and facial expressions by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who manages to give a fun impression of a young Bruce Willis.

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 turned out to be full of wasted potential. Good ideas, characters, situations, plot elements it all had at some points - but none developed, really. 

That's more disappointing that if it had had no potential. Wasted opportunities... in a loop.

Andres Gomez

The plot is full of flaws. Quite like a even worse inception.

Dark Jedi

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 too stupid to realise that it is just going to be a mess, or they do not really care about the issues hoping that the audience also will not care.

This movie is really proof of this. It is full of paradoxes and annoying “but if this happened now then that couldn’t have happened then and vice versa”. Maybe some people can force themselves overlooking these things but I have some difficulty doing so. I fully agree with the statement that one of the characters in the movie was making: “"This time travel crap, just fries your brain like an egg…".

Anyway, trying to pierce through the cloud of time-travel issues and enjoy the movie, it is not a bad movie. Given that it really had no chance of succeeding in the science area, or have a plot which didn’t defy all logic (time travel you know) it does indeed make a valiant try to entertain. It is not one of Bruce Willies standard all-out action-filled roller-coasters. That is not to say that there is no action but there is also plenty of time for trying to actually tell the story in the movie. The movie is actually quite dark and melancholic. The future seems to be fairly dirty, run down and ridden with criminal organisations.

As if time-travel itself wasn’t bad enough the story also involves 10% of the population having developed psychic powers. Most of them good for nothing except cheap show tricks like levitating small objects. Most of them…except our future crime lord which of course is found to have super-psychic powers. Also, of course, the kid had to behave like a spoiled brat with anger problems which was somewhat annoying.

The ending, which I will not divulge here of course, was not very surprising and left quite a few open questions. On the whole I would say that the movie was entertaining but it is far from going on my top ten list.

movie was a little slow and drawn out.  action was ok but story was little weak.

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