A Violent, Smart, Sometimes Funny Time Travel Tale

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2013)

Looper was one of my most anticipated movies when I first heard about it. Bruce Willis and Joseph-Gordon Levitt in a time travel movie where they're the same person? Sold! The story is about Joe (Joseph-Gordon Levitt), a looper (who is a hit-man for the mob who send undesirables back in time to get a bullet in the head) who one day has a target that is revealed to be an older version of him played by Bruce Willis. From there on (without going into spoilers)the story involves Telekinesis, romance, and time travel.
The acting is top notch with JGL's character Joe being a confident, yet somewhat cold to others that shows a more emotional side of him. Bruce Willis is also great as the older version of Joe showing the same charisma of younger Joe but with a more elder view on life. The supporting characters are also great, notably Paul Dano and Jeff Daniels.
The movie is paced very well and has a pretty good script with the dialogue having a somewhat noir feel to it which I love and the time travel aspects are pretty well thought out for the most part. The action is very stylized and sometimes really bloody and brutal but necessary as it takes a toll on the characters (figuratively and literally). However the movie does find some humor with interactions between Joe and older Joe and probably on of the best montages I have ever seen.
But with all time travel movies, the plot holes of time travel and it's rules get in the way and sometimes make a simple solution seem impossible. However this is a small thing and the movie is one of the greatest time travel movie made.