Looper shows what you will do to save your live.

Rating: 8/10 (30 September 2012)

"Joseph Gordon-Levitt re-teams with Rian Johnson to create a film that is imaginative as much as it is stylised"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been having a year that feels like he his trying to become a box-office king making films about bats and bikes. His new film is another collaboration with writer/director Rian Johnson after 2005's "Brick". The story seems simple about Joe who is a looper who are people who are sent people from the future to kill because time travel is illegal in the future and it's hard to get rid of a body in the future. But when you are a looper after your future self has reached a certain age they are sent back to be killed which is called let go of your looper.
When Joe's older self is sent back he fails to kill him and is hunted down as well as older Joe. They meet in a dinner to discuss what the plan is where Older Joe says in the future there is a man called the Rainmaker who they can stop in the present time but when they are found they map is split and each go off to marked areas. Young goes to a farm with a mother and son while older goes to the other two locations trying the kill the boy that will become the rainmaker. At the farm is Sara and her son Cid have a secret that was the whole point of Older Joe going back in time.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt tried his best to be a young Bruce Willis by adapting the voice of Bruce, also the makeup distracting at times helped him with his look. Bruce Willis was OK but again it is not his movie, all he was used for was to be 80's action star Bruce and he is very good at doing that. Emily Blunt was at times believable as a southern farm girl but other times she felt iffy to me. The biggest surprise for me was Pierce Gagnon as Cid who played the character especially since he was five when he made the film.
I liked this film very much and Rian Johnson is very creative especially in his directing skills which have developed drastically over the years from his first movie throughout his TV work and much more. The visual effects simple very effective and with a limited budget Johnson made the most of what he had. His casting was also smart but even though JGL looks nothing like Bruce it was the makeup artists that changed my mind on the idea.
MOVIE GRADE: B+ (MVP: Joseph Gordon-Levitt)