Boring and disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (7 October 2012)

On my way home I was thinking about what was wrong with this movie and why I didn't like it. It wanted to be too many things at once, and didn't deliver any of those. If you expect good action , you won't find it here. If you expect a good story, you won't find it either. If you expect drama , there is a little . Special effects, some really good , some really bad. The first 30-40 minutes are the best , the time travel is not a plausible reality but it is cool to imagine and with suspension of disbelief i was really into it and it was quite original too. Then it started falling apart. It turned into a drama of some kind that seemed to be the slo-motion version of what just preceded it. And it made you wonder, 'where are they going with this?'. Then three quarters into the movie everything is revealed to the audience with the most absurd and un-original idea that they could possibly come out with. Let's just say that if a wizard had come into the middle of this movie and had started doing some magic tricks it would have made as much sense as the actual story plot of looper. (As a side note the special effect in this revealing scene is very good and I think it makes people forget how bad the whole movie has just become.)
Think about Minority Report. Not among my favorites movies because of the implausible premise but it's a good solid sci-fi and it's everything that Looper isn't. It has action, drama, great special effects, plot twists, all mixed together seamlessly with class and style in a story plot that keeps you entertained and involved until the end, without never losing its tracks.
Too bad because looper could have been great.