Looper

Name: Looper
Genre: Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
Released: 2012-09-26
Duration: 118 min

Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.

20121h 58mcritics 6.9/10

Action Thriller Science Fiction

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.

starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano

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Metacritic55 read

“The ending has a very similar twist.”
Vadertimeabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“which starts off with a fair amount of action and drama, the viewer trying to figure out whats going on, how looping works, the characters and their standing etc.”
DawdlingPoetabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“the pace slows down mid way through, with more emphasis on the characters background and your left wondering how things will pan out.”
DawdlingPoetabout 33–66% inread it ↗
“There are some pretty haunting scenes towards the end of the movie when one particular character shows a menacing side.”
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TMDB4 read

“movie was a little slow and drawn out”
rookiebeotchabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“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 th”
Dark Jediread it ↗
“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 i”
jwread it ↗
“**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 i”

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