Very enjoyable action flick

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2013)

"Looper" is a futuristic tale about time travel. And we all know about the rules of time travel...
1) DO NOT travel back in time.
2) If you travel back in time DO NOT stand face to face with your past self.
3) If you do travel back in time and are standing face to face with your past self DO NOT reveal anything about your future.
But this movie took the rule book and through it out the window. Joe (JGL) is a "Looper assassin" and it's his job to kill people sent from the future and to dispose of the body. All's well until the boss in the future decides to "Close his Loop." Which entails sending his future self (Bruce Willis) to the past for him (JGL) to kill. Now having JGL kill him straight away would be one boring movie so Bruce Willis gets away and the story begins.
I liked this movie because it shows you how the future, and the past alike, are NOT set in stone. What JGL does in pursuit of Bruce Willis changes Bruce Willis's memory and alters what happened to him in his life. The two "Joe's" have two different hearts, desires and beliefs. Bruce Willis's Joe is desperately in love and comes to the past to kill the reason his wife is dead while JGL is hell bent on protecting the reason Bruce Willis's wife is dead. (partialy because at this point in time the "reason" Bruce Willis's wife is dead is still just a little boy and partially because he has feelings for this little boy's mother. Played by Emily Blunt.) Needless to say this makes things confusing for Bruce Willis when he unexpectedly and out of nowhere has feelings for this woman he's never seen before.
If you don't pay attention it may be a little hard to follow, I mean it IS a movie about time travel so it does jump around a bit, but if you do pay attention and understand it the storyline is action packed and touching. JGL sees the man he grew into and became, and he is shocked, saddened and just unpleased with himself. Bruce Willis sees who he was and wants a better life for himself, and tries to do that by forcing the woman he loves on JGL, so that he (JGL) can live the life that was stolen from him. (Bruce Willis)
The setting was also fun to see the characters interact with. You get both the city and the country and the future and past.
I thought this movie was well written and well acted, and once you get past the fact that JGL is wearing a fake nose and chin to make him resemble Bruce Willis you really get into the story. Any action junkee will love this movie, (and this comes from the rom-com queen) I give it a 6 for storyline, a 1 for setting and 1 bonus point for casting. 8/10 in total.