Two movies in one - Looper Review

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2018)

Looper is a movie about time travel, hitmen, telekinetic powers and a farm...
Anyway
The movie starts out explaining it's concept in a very exciting and really smart way. In the year of 2074, criminals and mobs uses time travel to send back there targets thirty years in time. Hitmen, or so called Loopers, then kills the guy sent back in time and gets paid.
Our main hero(ish) Joe, played excellently by Joseph Gordon Levitt, is a looper with high hopes of life. A man who studies french and has dreams of one day going to France.
This all changes when Joe himself get sent back from the future... to get killed by himself...
This is called closing the loop, in which the mob in the future send back the hitman himself so that he can end his own life, in the future. He get's a big fat reward and can go on about his ways.
I won't spoil anything but, things aren't exactly that easy for Joe.
From a movie perspective this is a great one. The premiss is fantastic and the acting is great, all around the board. The crown is taken by Pierce Gagnon tough, a child actor who really kills it.
The movie starts out with fast paced editing and some great shots of a futuristic society in which we get thrown into. The dialogue is funny, riveting and very smart written by the o-so great Rian Johnsson.
But. The movie lacks in one key element. Pace.
The pace in the movie completely drops towards the middle of the second act and the movie changes it's story fundamentally. It feels like your'e watching a different movie. Not a bad one, but not a fantastic one either.
This is kind of a shame, because the first half is so good, and sets off so many exciting ways to move the story forwards. Rian choose to write his story this way and he went for it.
All and all this is a great movie wheigehed down a bit by its second to third act, but still manages to finish quite strong.
I would recommend this movie to everyone. See it. Just don't have to much expectations over what it's gonna be. Otherwise, you might get kind of disappointed.
TOTAL SCORE:
8**/10
*= MEANS HOW MUCH POTENTIAL THE MOVIE HAD, HOW HIGH IT COULD HAVE BEEN RATED.