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Action duo Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis play the same character decades apart in this exciting sci-fi thriller. More Details. Watch offline. Available to download. This movie is Dark, Suspenseful. More Like This. Coming Soon. Could be a cult classic. Here's sci-fi that will happily fry your brain as you figure out the implications of changing the future by altering the present. But as Sinatra sings, "Regrets I've had a few, but then too few to really mention," this film challenges you to think of the implications of reversing those regrets or keeping the future the same because you kind of like the way things went.

Joseph Gordon Levitt's Joe is a "looper," an assassin who goes into the past to murder someone needed to be absent in the future, The Mob, headed by a very relaxed and dangerous Jeff Daniels as Abe, determines to eliminate all loopers, and Joe is next on the list to kill himself by flashing back.

Yes, it's existentially a difficult task, and therein lies the drama of this satisfying sci-fi. With less CGI and few glitzy machines in fact most of the vehicles look shabby and the loopers' weapon is a sawed-off Steampunk shot gun—how's that for past and future? Because it's an intelligent tale, the overall theme of responsibility for our actions the existential part flows quietly from the action, be it as simple as running from the bad guys to the complexity of deciding on the sacrifices willing to be made to alter the future.

A leitmotiv of this film is that no one is immune from the effects of the past, Sinatra notwithstanding in his apparent satisfaction with how things turned out. For Looper, cult status is its future. FAQ 6. What's "Looper" about? Why didn't they just timetravel people into space if they wanted to kill them cleanly?

Why did they need Loopers at all? What is the first song as Joe drives to meet Seth? Details Edit. Release date September 28, United States. United States China. Official site. English French. Asesino del Futuro. Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 53 minutes. Related news. Aug 19 MovieWeb. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content.

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Real love. To Old Joe, the person responsible for taking what was his is someone named the Rainmaker, who is basically the all-powerful telekinetic Hitler of , controlling everything in society from the government to the citizenry to the mobs and their operations.

Only, Old Joe has three names on a list flimsy intel — three children — who could be telekinetic Hitler, and therefore he must kill all three. Even when Cid inadvertently blows up a gatman Garrett Dillahunt , and Young Joe knows this kid is telekinetic Hitler, the compassion he sees Sara showing her son, and the effect it has, marks for Young Joe the difference between becoming men like him and baby-killing future him , and possibly becoming what Young Joe secretly always wanted to be: a better kind of man.

However, murder-spree Old Joe is too far gone to turn back. Looper , unfortunately, suffers this problem as well. The biggest issue, as always, is the multiverse factor: if a guy from the future comes to the past and starts mucking with history, it either A creates a separate timeline that runs parallel to the original one allowing for two versions of history , or B The actions in the past forever alter the flow of a single timeline, allowing for just one version of events.

Looper plays fast and loose with this time travel mechanic, at times relying on both single timeline and multiverse timeline approaches to push the story forward. For example: Old Joe still existing after he meets and affects Young Joe shows that multiple timelines are possible — but tricks like Young Joe carving messages in his arm that show up on Old Joe as scars would have us assume that there is one timeline that wherein the fate of one Joe is directly tied to the other.

Or is he open to remember several versions of history? Old Joe then jumps back to the past to change this course of events, and the movie we witness is therefore the alternate timeline where Old Joe escapes his execution. A version of history wherein Old Joe kills Sara and creates the Rainmaker is also a paradox. Old Joe cannot be the origin of the Rainmaker as we are told he is.

In a climatic moment, Young Joe via voiceover describes seeing an unending cycle of time travel violence that creates monsters like the Rainmaker and Old Joe — and the only way to break it is suicide. This tangential subplot to the film actually raises quite a few paradoxal issues. Young Joe had already started down a path of emotional growth and change, meaning he could never become the Old Joe we meet — yet when Young Joe kills himself, poof! Old Joe is gone as if they are directly tied to one another.

Looper crafts a very good story out of a wild sci-fi premise, and while it dodges a lot of its own potholes scene-to-scene, when viewed from a distance its clear that Rian Johnson has not yet cracked the time travel movie conundrum.

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