Looper is set in the future where time travel is illegal and used by criminal organizations on the black market. Once the person is caught by the mob, they are sent back thirty years to a looper. A looper's job is to kill those sent back in time and is how Joe (Gordon-Levitt) makes his money. One day though, his future self comes back to be killed causing an interesting situation for him. Though this is an original plot, there is just too much to grasp here and it is a confusing piece. This film could have went many different ways but it ends up going many places we didn't want it to go. You can like some aspects of this movie but not all of them.
As with most films he is in, Gordon-Levitt delivers a very well done performance and has a cast to support him. Emily Blunt plays a different role and she is much more gritty than she has ever been before. Bruce Willis is the future Joe who does not put out a bad performance but he doesn't at all look like Gordon-Levitt which is a problem. Willis does get some makeup but it doesn't go hand in hand enough to be the future Joe. All these characters are well developed and do have a lot to them.
Director Rian Johnson sets this film in 2044 and in the future realistic world. All we really see though is rundown buildings, poor looking towns and no color in this world. In the third act, the film's setting is a farm where we feel like Shoeless Joe Jackson and kids from Nebraska are going to be coming out of the fields but this setting ultimately makes us feel like we are back in the present time and it's takes us away from the film. Basically, Rian Johnson wanted to portray a future world but he didn't have any ideas for it.
A second viewing might be interesting but for now I think Looper is potentially a good film but with a few bad ideas. This film seemed to forgotten once 2013 came along and you wonder if anybody will have heard of it twenty years from now. For now, Looper is an overrated film from 2012.
3/5
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