Loved this Film!!!

Rating: 7/10 (5 October 2012)

I know I really liked this film, because all I can think of right now is seeing it again. I love movies with intricate plots that make you think, movies that you have to pay attention to them to ensure that you don't miss anything. I know on a second viewing of this film, I would see so much more of the film that I missed on my initial viewing. And for this reason alone, I have to highly recommend seeing this film!!!
The "simple"...plotline for this is film as follows: If the mob wants you dead in 2072, they send you back in time to 2042 where a hired hit-man, a Looper, awaits for you to materialize, then shoots you pointblank with a "blundergun," a sawed-off double shotgun. The body is then incinerated, and the mob's problem is solved. If you are lucky enough to survive thirty (30) years of service, your "loop is closed", and your future self is sent back to your younger self for execution. As your reward, you get to live your next 30 years of life "buck wild". However in the future, a new mob boss, the Reign-Man, has taken over the five (5) major crime cities in 2072, and is systematically killing off all the Loopers in the future. Old Joe (Bruce Willis) has a plan to find a kill "The Reign-Man" as a child when he's "looped" to the past for execution, that is if his younger self (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) doesn't kill him off first.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson, this film/script is fresh, vibrant, and a Sci-Fi geek's wet dream; and I just loved everything about this film. Every second that Willis (Old Joe) stays alive in the past has potentially catastrophic to the future, not to mention that every new experience younger Joe (Gordon-Levitt) experiences from the mishap execution, instantaneously becomes a new memory for Old Joe (Willis). Yes, it's that kind of movie.... :)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt embodies the persona of Willis much like Josh Brolin did in MiB3 as young Tommy Lee Jones. Levitt has Willis' facial expressions, head tilt, body posture; it's all there. While Willis still plays Willis with blatant disregard and reckless abandonment. My only complaint to this film would be the 2042 "time-warp murder site". We are supposedly in a future where mob crime rules supreme, wide spread poverty, but there just happens to be a sugar cane farm circa 1940 sitting just outside the city complete with 1940 diner. It's just a little to "Norman Rockwell" for me!!!!
Anyways, I do highly recommend seeing this film I enjoyed it immensely!! However, I am a sucker for Sci-Fi, time travel, and all things Bruce Willis!! Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming into his own as well a fine performance, well done!! So if you are jonesing for a really nice Sci-fi, time traveler, mob-infested thriller, boy do I have a movie for you!!!!
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