A great movie ruined by trying to be too many things.

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2015)

In a future society, time-travel exists, but it's only available to those with the means to pay for it on the black market. When the mob wants to eliminate someone, it sends the target into the past, where a hit man known as a looper lies in wait to finish the job.
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Brunt.
Written and Directed by Rian Johnson.
This is a great movie that is ruined by trying to be too many things.
I love the premise. A bunch of gangsters in the future get their hands on time travel technology and send their victims 30 years into the past to be killed by people called loopers. It's timeywhimey, it messes with your head. It's original and keeps you guessing and the plot is unraveled as you watch.
But then it all goes wrong.
Bruce Willis is introduced and soon the movie turns into Die Hard and then later on unbelievably it turns into Stephen King's Carrie! There was no need for this, The plot was doing fine as it was. I can only guess that Rian Johnson was worried that the plot wasn't good enough to stand on its own two feet and panicked.
Don't get me wrong there are some decent acting performances by all three of the mains, especially Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It's just a pity that the plot tried to do too many things. It all became too unrealistic and this movie literally lost the plot.
7/10