overall great movie

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2014)

Writer and director Rian Johnson does a excellent job creating a world where science fiction elements exist but are not as abnormal as something like Star Wars or Star Trek. Though the weapons, hover bikes, and telekinetic powers in this film do not actually exist, Looper gives the audience the impression that could actually one day exist in the future. Looper connects where other movies failed or missed the mark because it gives the audience the feeling that the world has been thought out very strategically. Also all of characters seem to effortlessly fit perfectly in the world that the director created. The protagonist is apart of a gang of killers and is hooked on a strange eye drop drug and very troubled because of the way he had to grow up in rough times. This makes him fit perfectly into the crime ruled place the world has become. Looper successfully turns Joseph Gordon- Levitt into an acceptable young Bruce Willis with the power of make-up and special effects. Joseph Gordon-Levitt also does a very exceptional job of not trying to become the person Bruce Willis is but instead depicting a character who may be a criminal but is also caring sensitive young gunman who might grow old and become the broken and hardened man Bruce Willis plays. A thirty year montage reveals to the audience how one young Joe transitions into becoming old Joe through a hard life on the run. Though older Joe finds love late in life, his past finally catches up with him just like he always knew it would when he send to the past to die. So when young Joe and old Joe cross paths young Joe has to rush through the hard life lessons and emotional maturing older Joe has taken thirty years to accomplish. Older Joe comes to the conclusion that he can put an end to his problems by killing the crime boss of the future, the rainmaker, who is presently a young boy living on the farm where young Joe is making his last stand against his gang who is out to murder him. However, the director Rian Johnson takes a very different approach to the situation of endings all of your problems in the past before they ever get the chance to ruin your future. There is one surprise that all of the audience will probably see coming, but there has never been a good film made that was a hundred percent perfect. Very well thought out science fiction can sometimes seem to be non- existent because of too many complicated acts involving physics that can bring the risk of creating a final project that is not worth viewing or being proud of. Sometimes films incorporate too many explosions or they tend to get lost in a plot that far more difficult to understand than it should be. It may be true that Looper is not the most perfect film ever made, but it pulls in every single element of the plot and storyline and ties everything together very nice and neat. From the moment that the movie comes on all the way to the ending credits Looper keeps the audiences attention without ever displaying a dull moment.