Enjoyable Action/Sci-Fi Popcorn Flick!

Rating: 7/10 (29 September 2012)

I had high hopes for looper. Two great leads and from the trailer, a pretty cool (sort of) original plot to work with.
I walked out feeling reasonably satisfied with the movie. Were there plot holes? You bet. Time paradoxes? Many. Wasted opportunity? Definitely. Did it go probably 30 minutes longer than it need to? Oh yeah...
The point is... Taking all of this into consideration. I still enjoyed it. I liked the brutality in which younger Joe and the other loopers just did their job. I liked the plot involving the Rainmaker and even though it's predictable, it's still enjoyable.
I saw this with my brother and he didn't enjoy it so much. He kept on nit picking the paradoxes, how the plot generally did not make sense and how he believed each actor "phoned in" their performance. Personally I though they all did an OK job to help the plot move along.
I don't know.. I can't explain why I still enjoyed it. Maybe it was because the last movie I saw was the Expendables 2, and this was like the Shawshank Redemption in comparison. I'd say go and see it to make up your own mind, but don't go expecting a flawless depiction of time travel. Just go in, switch your brain off and enjoy what the movie has to offer.