Atrociously Bad

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2013)

A complete disappointment and utterly atrocious, Rian Johnson's "Looper" is a disjointed, gratuitously violent, wanna-be science fiction. It has nothing but a couple gimmicks masquerading as science-fiction or has ripped off from prior movies like Matrix. Film-makers, if you're reading, gun-fire does not equate to good-action. The excuse of a story meanders and is muddled in a bad way. We get to watch a dozen close-up shot-gun blastings of people as if one is not enough. The future is poorly imagined - probably due to a slim budget, or perhaps Bruce Willis has somehow deflated the movie's budget for everything else. He's in about 40 min of the runtime - less than half. Way too much time is spent in corn fields and expository dialog. You have the director casting Jeff Daniels, that's right Jeff Daniels, as the mob-boss. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's makeup in an attempt to look like Bruce Willis is distractingly poor. There is actually scenes of shooting (at) children. What a complete steaming turd this movie is. The Time Machine is a concept rip-off of Twelve Monkeys done half-a$$ed. This is low-concept, and I was duped once again by a high average IMDb review. Deserves a 3/10. Not even worth a library check-out. Stay away, or go watch 12 Monkeys or Blade Runner if you want better science-fiction.