The Weird Business Of Time Travel

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2012)

One thing I must say right off the bat is that "Looper" is definitely not predictable. I literally didn't know what to expect from one moment to the next. I liked the performances of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and especially Emily Blunt as a gun-toting, no-nonsense mother of a paranormally gifted child who could hold the key to the future. Levitt inhabits the same time as Blunt and works as an unusual hit-man for the mob. Willis is Levitt thirty years in the future, living in China and happily married at least until things start to go wrong. As with all time travel movies this one has its share of paradoxes endemic to the genre but it shouldn't hurt anyone's enjoyment of the film. "Looper" isn't great science fiction but it's pretty good and I can recommend it as a good piece of escapist entertainment.