So good yet so bad...

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2013)

I saw this in the theater. My expectations were high after seeing the trailer and reading the early reviews. I was sadly highly disappointed. The trailer covers the first "half" of the movie. That section of the movie is great. It sets up the world and a very interesting plot. The second "half" flips the bird to the first part so it can drag you away kicking and screaming into a completely different movie. The rules of time travel are ignored and the plot setup in the first half is ignored. It goes from being a movie about fighting who you might become in the future to a movie about whether its OK to go back in time to kill Hitler when he was a baby. Even the transition to the second half is silly with a scene straight out of Benny Hill.
Oddly enough a lot of the people that have given this movie positive reviews have acknowledged that its seriously flawed. The standard excuse those people give for their positive reviews seems to be "Well if we want Hollywood to keep taking chances on high concept sci-fi movies then we need to support movies like Looper." I think that is the exact wrong attitude to have because all it does it ensure that the sci-fi movies we do get are all garbage like Looper.