Nice Saturday night movie

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2012)

For starters I enjoy the type of movies that star Bruce Willis so my opinion is a little biased. That being said, the main reason I went to see this movie is because of the time travel aspect. This is a very complicated subject and I was very interesting as to how they where going to incorporate this and solve "the problem".
And it started out very good, the story was very plausible and the moral dilemma that comes with being a looper gave you enough to think about. Up until this point I really though this movie was going to be a "9" for sure. However Then it changed and the story became less and less plausible and the plot wasn't as strong as I would have liked.
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The point where it went wrong was when they introduced TK (telekinesis), This didn't add anything to the story. Of course they had to think of a way to make the "rainmaker" figure exceptional and very strong I personally just thought this just was not the way to go. It felt like they where blending two different stories into one.
second point was the plot, as I said the time travel subject is very complicated so if you start thinking about the plot you start to see the error because when he commits suicide in the past then his older self will never come to exist. This will then lead to him never meeting his older self which in turn will lead to him never being in the situation that he has to kill himself. And this would create a loop where still in 50% of the "time" the world is ruled by the "rainmaker". Personally I would have liked an ending that he would have killed "cid" and then just stood there for a few moments then cut to the other child (where he got caught by kid blue) and then see all kinds of metal items floating around that kid and fade to black.
In sum, a very intriguing movie, very good acting and the resemblance between Bruce Willis and his younger self was very striking. So if you don't over think/analyze every movie you watch you will be enjoying this movie a lot!