What a waste of potential

Rating: 6/10 (6 November 2012)

I was really looking forward to this film, but I was disappointed.
Great actors. Fascinating ideas. Then it loses the plot completely.
It's like Terminator meets X-Men in a jumbled mess.
I'm surprised it's rated so highly.
It was incredibly violent, and therefore I found, unpleasant to watch, and there was nothing to lighten the mood--no wit, no humour, little hope.
I don't think the second storyline should have been introduced at all (the X-Men meets Terminator bit with the Rainmaker). It was a crazy tangent, and both ideas have been done much better in other movies.
It would have been far more interesting if they just stuck to the original Looper premise. There was plenty of potential there, but the film abandoned it instead of exploring it further. I really don't know what they were thinking.