tries to be clever, and almost, but not quite, succeeds.

Rating: 4/10 (5 November 2012)

When Im reading reviews of films on IMDb, I consider anything above 7.0 as "Probably worth a watch". Im giving this one a 6, since it's almost, but not quite, worth a watch.
Im gonna take a chance here and without marking it as a spoiler tell you that this film has some time-travel in it of some sort. You will see this about 3 minutes into the film, so I hope reading it here wont ruin the movie for anyone...
The concept of this film that so mane speak so highly about, is a kind of chasing the tail of fate, in time-travel-loops. it's a play with one of the many paradoxes encountered when playing with time-traveling. This movie handles the chosen paradox in much the same way "Butterfly effect" did. sure, they changed the character, the setting, the way of traveling back in time, but in the end, Looper handles the same paradox, the same "cause-and-effect" mindset, that is served to you by the Butterfly effect. I'll agree that this film does it somewhat better than Butterfly effect did, but people have been calling this original, new and revolutionary? not by a long shot! And, as is always the case when you play around with time-travel in a movie, there are a few contradictions, that at least to me, was quite annoying. I'll admit that given that this is a time-travel story, there are quite a few contradictions, and avoiding them would involve either making it way to complex for a popular market, or taking away that would-be heart-breaking end. the latter, in my opinion, would have served it well. The end of this flick is, and I mean it when I say it, very typical Hollywood, and not in any way hard to predict.(unless the whole time-travel paradox has you confused out of your mind the whole time, which tends to happen) at least the acting was decent. action is not half-bad either. not entirely mindless, but not particularly smart either.