Good sci-fi film loses grip towards the end

Rating: 6/10 (7 October 2012)

"Looper" is one of the many films to include time travel in its premise, but it adds a very unique twist that is worth a recommendation. The film is set in the future where time travel has been invented but quickly outlawed. The mob uses this a way to completely kill off anyone they want to by using loopers: hit-man in the past who wait for a target to pop up out of thin air and then kill them. The time travel material is very well thought up. They have just about all of the questions covered. Plus it is also nice to see a movie set in the not so distant future that doesn't depict that everyone will be driving flying cars or have robots all over the place. The main story is about what would happen if the person you had to kill was your future self. It is a very neat concept, and for most of the movie it works.
Great idea, great acting, and the over all plot was pretty darn good, but I just can't give this movie my full blessing of being great. I guess it just leaves you wanting more closure at the end of the movie. Grant it, not all movies need to end with everything resolved or explained, but I really think they could have done a little better with this one due to how well the rest of the movie was put together. Bruce Willis, although not the main star in this film, really does a great job staying true to what he does best, delivering in the action side of the movie. He was a great casting for this movie, which possible could have something to do with the fact this is not his first movie traveling back in time to meet his former self (The Kid, 2000). . "Looper" has to be celebrated for its originality. But towards the later half of the film, it starts to slow down almost too much. The always beautiful Emily Blunt does well with her role, but there's only so much she can do. I have to say that I was quite surprised how the film ended up being. The ending will certainly raise questions with just how good the movie was, which is sad because there really are a lot of great things about it. Being a Bruce Willis fan, it was nice to see him in the macho action hero role, but I felt like there wasn't enough of it. Joseph Gordan-Levitt, who's been a rising star as of late, really gives another great performance in his first big leading role. The film makers really did a great job making him look like Bruce Willis, which really helped make everything flow well. With an open and mind and not to big of expectations I would absolutely recommend seeing this film, but if you don't catch it in the theaters your not missing too much.
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