What is the right choice?

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2012)

I really enjoyed this movie. Let me start by saying that I did not for one second question any of the information that was presented to me I just accepted it for what it was. I felt like this helped me to understand the movie better and therefore enjoy it that much more.
*******Contains Spoilers************ For a movie that was about the future and time travel it was refreshingly low tech. Even the time travel device resembled an aqualung. The whole Looper occupation centers around killing people from 30 years in the future and disposing of them in the past. The problem then becomes the end of the Looper's career. Each Looper who has an older self that is living 30 years in the future has to "close the loop" by killing that older self when he is sent back into the past. This seems crazy, but these Loopers are given 30 years and a big pay day.
So obviously these 30 year older selves do not want to die. Bruce Willis (Older Joe)'s whole mission when he is taken to be sent back to the past becomes about killing the mob boss (the rainmaker) when he was a kid in the past. His wife gets accidentally shot when he is taken and then he overpowers his captors and goes back in time and overpowers his younger self and escapes.
Older Joe only knows that the Rainmaker can be one of three 5 year old kids that were born on the same day in the same hospital. He goes in search of them to kill them and younger Joe fights him for one of the kid's addresses which leads him to a farm with a single mother and her little boy. Younger Joe stays with the mother and the boy while Older Joe does successfully kill one of the other children (It is never shown and Bruce Willis breaks down afterwards letting you know that it was hard for him to do). Older Joe sets out for the second child on the list while Younger Joe is forming a relationship with the single mother and her little boy.
The second child happens to be the daughter of a dancer that younger Joe knows and older Joe is having an issue with needing to kill her. He goes in and is ready to do it only to realize that it is a trap set up by Younger Joe's employers. They take him in and Older Joe shoots everyone and everything in the whole place. Meanwhile one of Younger Joe's coworkers is at the farm looking for him and his older self. This is when everything gets crazy. Throughout the movie they have told us that about 10% of the population has a mutation which allows them to be telekinetic. The extent of this ability is that they can make quarters float. Apparently this boy can do more. When he gets upset he is able to kill people. He is unable to control his power and kills young Joe's coworker.
Old Joe now knows who the Rainmaker will be and comes to the farm to kill him. The mother is not going to let her son get killed and Older Joe is chasing them and shooting at them. Finally the child gets away and the Mom is standing there trying to protect him from Bruce Willis. Younger Joe comes running up and realizes that there is only one solution. If the Rainmaker would have been able to grow up with his mother then maybe he wouldn't be as evil in the future. He can't let old Joe kill the mother. He shoots himself and old Joe disappears.
The ending was very profound. You then realize that he made a choice. Was it the right choice? Who knows. It saved at least three innocent lives in the process. Bruce Willis' wife, the kid that was not the Rainmaker and the mother. This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It really made me think and not about time travel but about humans and what drives them. I've never written a review before but this movie compelled me to do it.