Rian Johnson got lost in his own story

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2016)

The movie Looper amazes the viewer with it's unique plot. The main characteristic being time travel. During the entire movie the characters would avoid explaining the chosen time-line and how it works. However, out of the most common theories Rian Johnson chose the most unseen one - you can change the future. Despite all the paradoxes and missing "logical" explanations, which basic time travel theories present while discussing how it would affect the time-line what should interest the viewer is not the mechanic but how it affects the story. Therefore, you should ignore discussing how much sense it makes as it is sci-fi but do pay attention on what role the given conditions play in the story.
Rian Johnson did not manage to cope with his own written ones. He began the story presenting the basic time travel idea - tricked the viewer and then surprised him with the paradoxical - changing your existing future by affecting the present. He continues this idea throughout the entire movies up until the very most important act. The climax. Here he slips, gets tangled in the limitless possibilities of his plot and ties lose ends with the most basic, boring outcome, which negates the entire idea of the movie: main character refers to loops and kills himself to stop them. However, the main idea, the most unique plot is the idea of you looping again and again and changing your future each time, which the protagonist could have done! Live, survive, save your life go back once again and make it so this time you can make everything right. It is not a loop it is a continuous line that just happens to go through the same paths you took up until you decided to chose a different one.
All in all, Rian Johnson tried to prove Hollywood he can present something new. However, he miserably failed when he ran into the paradoxes of his own plot and had to come back to the clichés to find an ending to his peace, which destroyed the entire beauty of the movie.