A mother who would die for her child......

Rating: 9/10 (30 September 2012)

In the future, a man working as a Looper works for the mob and kill people who are sent blindfolded back in time from the year 2072 by their Bosses.
When his looped has ended, he has to kill himself thirty years from his time.
He hesitates resulting in the escape of his older self......
Having only seen one trailer, and purposely ignoring reviews and further trailer, I was expecting some sort of action adventure where the the younger and older Joe team up and take on the mob.
How wrong I was. It's not the masterpiece it's made out to be by no means, it has huge gaping plot holes, so don't go in expecting something original, but that's not a huge criticism, time travel movies always have some sort of problem, so I just go with the movie, like I did with this.
Even though it's not original, it's very intelligent, and once we go thought the second time Joe meets himself, it changes it's path on a whole different route.
When the film changes pace is when older Joe realises his younger self is not doing what he should be doing (it's tricky to explain) and this is where the film takes a little turn on the Terminator path.
Older Joe has to do something unforgivable, in order to change his future, while younger Joe has to decipher a code which could mean something about his future. If you go with it, and just forgive the less plausible parts, it's an amazing movie.
Willis hasn't been this good in a very long time, and Levitt proves again he is one of the best young actors around today. Blunt turns up hallway through the second act, and the film again, turns its narrative structure on its head
Johnson has made a well crafted film. But many have classed this as the new Matrix, that's a load of rubbish, this has nothing at all to do with that movie, here we have a film more in common with Source Code, The Terminator, Twelve Monkeys, and in a little sub- plot involving a child Children of The Corn.
There are some great set pieces, one in particular involving disappearing body parts and addresses appearing on your body, and surprisingly, it's a very violent movie in places.
But the ending is very somber, yet happy, and what Levitt says bought a tear to my eye.
So once again, not the masterpiece many have said, but go with and you will find one of the most different science fiction movies released in a while