Pointless waste of time.

Rating: 5/10 (5 May 2016)

Pun intended.
The movie makes no sense. It has one of the worst use of time travel I've ever had the displeasure to see.
The basis of the story is so weak it's a wonder it was produced.
_ Time travel exists (okay, go on ...).
_ It's forbidden (rightly so, probably by international treaty).
_ But "cheap" enough that mobs can use it. After all it takes only what looks like a bit of junk amassed in a roughly 3 meters wide empty ball. (What are the power requirements ? More or less than a fridge ? What about a microwave ? Is it "green" ? This makes absolutely no sense.)
_ It seems you cannot kill in the future (development please ? This is pretty shaky as it is.)
_ Mobs are instead using an incredibly convoluted way of getting rid of people (Because ? They are law-abiding citizen ?)
_ The movie shows that the machine allows travel through space as well (as it should be actually, given that Earth moves through space at roughly 30Km/s) but dropping bodies in the emptiness of said space does not seem to cross the mind of these mob geniuses. Volcano, bottom of the sea, the kernel of the Earth, into the Sun ... seem to be out of question also.
_ Time travel being illegal if a "looper" still lives when time travel is invented he must be sent back to be killed (Why ? It is clear "loopers" are not time travelers. They are "only" assassins garbage nobody should give a damn for. They don't break any time-line until they are sent back to be killed. Is there a rationale behind this ? LSD much ?)
Also, the characters have a really "weird" behavior, especially in the way they relate to each other. It feels a lot like if they were all raised somewhere in Asia (Japan or Korea, not China). The most obvious ones being the "boss" of the "loopers" and the "kid" man that wants praises from him. If you watched a lot of movies from these countries you probably understand exactly what I mean.
Writers unable to keep a coherent line through their story should avoid working in science fiction (if at all). I'll be certain to remember "Rian Johnson" in order to avoid such ordeals in the future. And I just saw that he was doing the next Star Wars. Good : it hardly can go worse than "Awakens" (for a Star Wars movie I mean, not for a "zap zap" "boom boom" "emo cry" pop-corn selling show.)
You have been warned.