Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
pointyfilippa
The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
memebigboy-98803
Looper takes a dump idea and makes it interesting, the acting is well done not sure how i feel about the makeup on the main character, it's interesting to see protagonist and antagonist are the same person, the future looks realistic in this film, overall go watch it it's very interesting
syllee
B for originality, at least compared to what's out these days.
F for gratuitous violence which completely detracts from a potentially good story line. Makes one wonder about the mind of someone who feels the need to create something like this.
F for failure to create any sympathetic characters. You *want* to *like* someone, anyone! Sorry. By end of the movie I didn't care about any of them.
grottmannen67
Looper is a movie about time travel, hitmen, telekinetic powers and a farm...AnywayThe movie starts out explaining it's concept in a very exciting and really smart way. In the year of 2074, criminals and mobs uses time travel to send back there targets thirty years in time. Hitmen, or so called Loopers, then kills the guy sent back in time and gets paid.
Our main hero(ish) Joe, played excellently by Joseph Gordon Levitt, is a looper with high hopes of life. A man who studies french and has dreams of one day going to France.
This all changes when Joe himself get sent back from the future... to get killed by himself...
This is called closing the loop, in which the mob in the future send back the hitman himself so that he can end his own life, in the future. He get's a big fat reward and can go on about his ways.
I won't spoil anything but, things aren't exactly that easy for Joe. From a movie perspective this is a great one. The premiss is fantastic and the acting is great, all around the board. The crown is taken by Pierce Gagnon tough, a child actor who really kills it. The movie starts out with fast paced editing and some great shots of a futuristic society in which we get thrown into. The dialogue is funny, riveting and very smart written by the o-so great Rian Johnsson. But. The movie lacks in one key element. Pace.
The pace in the movie completely drops towards the middle of the second act and the movie changes it's story fundamentally. It feels like your'e watching a different movie. Not a bad one, but not a fantastic one either.
This is kind of a shame, because the first half is so good, and sets off so many exciting ways to move the story forwards. Rian choose to write his story this way and he went for it. All and all this is a great movie wheigehed down a bit by its second to third act, but still manages to finish quite strong.
I would recommend this movie to everyone. See it. Just don't have to much expectations over what it's gonna be. Otherwise, you might get kind of disappointed. TOTAL SCORE:8**/10 *= MEANS HOW MUCH POTENTIAL THE MOVIE HAD, HOW HIGH IT COULD HAVE BEEN RATED.
muvi-fan-73
Tone & Story: Time travel movies generally appeal to the sci-fi watching audience. No one knows how accurately they are made, but they ,when made nicely, give you best two hour time spent or so. This movie deals with time travel and assassins whose lives are bounded to be spent till there time is over. They are called Loopers. Rainmaker is a person coming into future existence who kills every looper. The story is further based on how this mass assassination is changed. I liked the script developed on TK mutation as well as revelation of final scene before the movie ends (4.5/5).Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography: They were all very good (4/5).Music: Music was good (3/5).Acting: Acting was very good as well (3.5/5).Final Verdict: It is worth adding to your DVD collection [(4/5) (9/10)].