One wild ride right to the end.

Rating: 9/10 (9 October 2012)

Looper is, in my opinion, the best movie of 2012. This is the type of movie that people should be making, one that keeps us intrigued and on the edge of our seat right up until the end, at which point we are left breathless. Not only is this such a good movie, there is so little that we know about this film as we go into the cinema, that to almost say anything about it is likely to ruin it for somebody, particularly since we are left guessing right up unto the end.
Looper is a movie with no real bad guy, since it becomes clear that everybody in the film is pretty much connected with the criminal underworld, and in fact it becomes pretty clear that in this futuristic world the criminal underworld pretty much rules everything. There are scenes in the movie where one of the character is being chased by the underworld, and we hear the sounds of the sirens of police cars which are out looking for him.
I will simply outline the film in the way they outline it at the beginning. Time travel does not exist yet, but in thirty years time it will, and it will be instantly outlawed. However the criminal underworld will take advantage of it, and use it to get rid of people and send them back in time, since it is impossible to dispose of a body then. They are sent to appear before executioners known as Loopers, whose job is to execute the person and dispose of his body, and are rewarded appropriately.
The only thing that seems to drag the film down is what I call the time travel paradox, but if we suspend our disbelief enough we can let is slide. The paradox is simply something that pretty much infects most movies about time travel. For instance, in Back to the Future, we have Marty McFly go back in time, meet his parents, muck something up but fix it up again, and then return. However, one thing that is left out is the suspicion as to why Marty McFly looks so much like his mum's ex-boyfriend from the fifties.
Unfortunately the paradox is almost impossible to escape from, and will pretty much undermine most movies. It generally isn't the case in a TV series (such as Dr Who), though it will always rear its ugly head. In the end, the best thing to consider is that this is a movie, and it exists only for entertainment purposes, so my suggestion is to be entertained.