Bone in my throat

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2012)

A very good execution of a flawed concept. (The director did this before with "Brick". It was very interesting but kind of confusing.)
There was a lot about it that I liked. But it raised a lot of questions at the same time.
(Did everyone else see the ode-to the Twilight Zone with the kid with similar powers that wished adults into the corn field?)
I'm going to jump over the platitudes to the acting and film making. (Wasn't the little kid great, too?) Even though Levitt was really a bad guy, I was interested 'cause he was interesting.
The over-riding problem I has was that killing your older self was a very bad idea. And, really, it wasn't clear why they did it. When it failed once wouldn't the mafia rethink the process? We got a good reason why so many were being killed later on with the Rainmaker character, but even then, it was strange for a barbaric bad guy to go through all that trouble. We cut to the future with all hell breaking loose and I'm led to believe that the mafia, at the same time, goes through all that trouble to dispose of bodies.
And another specific example. We're told that the mafia sends the bodies back in time to be disposed of because it's difficult to fully dispose of a body. Right? Okay, so the mafia shows up to kidnap Bruce Willis and accidentally shoot his wife. Do they take the body with them? Apparently not as it's not with them as they leave. They burned it up in the fire? That wasn't enough?
Another side thing. The klutz bad guys captures Willis and brings him back to Jeff Daniels. Just before that we see the cops raiding the bar. But there is nothing with the cops after we enter the bar and have that long shoot out.
But again, those were bones that stuck in my throat but the meal itself was actually very good.
(Now you might mark "Was This Helpful?" What does that mean? Are you reading this before you decide to go to this movie? You'd think that IMDb could come up with more engaging choices.)