What's it all About? Crims in the future use illegal time travel to send people into the past to have them disposed of by 'loopers'. Joe (Levitt) is one such looper who freaks out when his future self appears before him ready for execution.
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| Levitt doing his best Bruce imperssion |
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| And again....what a jawline |
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I knew I was onto a loser in the first 20 seconds when the lead character explains that future criminals need to use time travel to dispose of dead bodies. Wait a minute, huge criminal empires can't dispose of bodies? What kind of joke outfits are they running? Also, if they persist in this time travel looping nonsense why not either kill the person before they send them back in time to avoid the 'oh no he's run away' dilemma or even better why not just send them back to the Jurassic era and have a T-Rex munch them up.
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Aside from Jeff Daniels, the one tiny bright spot is that Joseph Gordon-Levitt does an ok job in the acting department but why oh why did the makers decide to add those facial prosthetics to make him look like a young Brucie. He looked awful and it really put me off. Add in the fact that his character is wildly unlikeable and we're left with an odd choice of 'hero'.
Oh yeah, Bruce seems to feel, physically, anything that happens to Joey but how come when Joe falls 50ft out of a top floor window onto a car, Bruce is absolutely fine? Hhhmm.
Other notable flat spots. The middle section is flabby, the end unsatisfying and the 'kid' part of the plot terrible.
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| Here's Bruce to show us how it's done |
Rating (out of 100%): A message for film makers everywhere. Unless you have the words Back to the Future in your title, don't bother including time travel. I give Looper a dismal 25%
