I don't get all the bad reviews

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2013)

The plot is fantastic, they could have gone a million different ways with this film...but I feel they chose the right one.
The make-up department did a decent job making Joe look like a young Bruce Willis, but that's my only complaint about the movie...the make up looked weird enough to defeat the purpose.
The 'looper' story is a cool idea, but the movie ended up being more about the group of people who have telekinetic powers, since the plot revolves around Bruce Willis' character anticipating the closure of his loop in order to avoid it, to stop a man from the future known as the "Rainmaker", who turns out to be the best character in the film. I think they set it up well for a sequel that follows up on what the Rainmaker becomes. They chose the perfect kid to play Cid, the boy who grows up to be the Rainmaker, taking control and closing loops to avenge the death of his mother at the hands of loopers. Much like Jeff Daniels' character said to Levitt's character early on...he saw this kid in a horrible situation and could "picture the bad path" that this child would take through his life, so he took him in and made him a young looper and changed the bad path that would have unraveled if he hadn't intervened. Levitt's character goes full circle at the end of the movie..picturing his future self killing Cid's mom and the dark, angry path that would lead Cid to use his TK powers to become the Rainmaker...he saw cause and effect right in front of his eyes, and much like what was done for him, he sees the bad path unraveling and decides to change it - by turning his blunderbuss on himself and taking his own life, saving Cid, his mother, and the wife that his future self came back to save.
This movie was about everything becoming a full circle with the loopers, and the way the ending was written, the movie itself comes full circle. I would definitely like to see a sequel that shows the path Cid does take with his extraordinary TK powers. He could be a cool superhero, but he would make an even better villain having the power he has. Hope to see it...meanwhile, you should definitely watch this movie.