Looper (2012) - 7.9

Rating: 8/10 (6 November 2019)

Looper (2012) - 7.9
Act 1 - 7.6
Act 2 - 7.8
Act 3 - 8.3

Live in a dystopian future and some people have minor telekinetic powers
Homeless cover the streets
In the future time travel is invented and the outlawed but criminals still use them to send back people they want killed by Loopers, which is what our main character Joe is
Close a loop on themselves when their bosses are done with them, killing your future self
Joe lives a repetitive life and is well off in this run down part of the world he lives in
The Rainmaker a future mob leader is closing all the loops and one of Joes friends doesn't kill is future self and now he's in trouble
Mob sent back people from the future to control the Loopers
Joe gives up is friend to save his money that he has been stashing to go to France with
Cool seeing the mutilation on Seths future self in real time
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's makeup and prosthetics seem very unnatural
A quarter of the way into the film Joe's future self is sent back in a different way than usual and is able to outsmart Joe and get away
Joe gets home and his house is ransacked
Then we cut back to the closing the loop scene again and this time Joe kills his future self with no problem and then moves to China, confusing as to what we are seeing now
We see Joe live out his life in China and resorts back to crime when he runs out of money
He is living a lonely life until he meets someone who he falls in love with and marries
30 years into his new life he gets taken and is sent back to close his loop
Redo of the scene now makes sense as it is a time loop and we get to see how Joe outsmarted the mobsters and sends himself back
Really cool how this plays out as future Joe is trying to help present Joe so he can still live the life that leads him to his future wife who is his life
Looks life future Joe can developed some of presents Joes new memories as this is playing out differently to future Joes life that he has already lived
Diner scene is really good with both Joe's
See that future Joe's wife get shot when he gets taken explaining why he decided to do what he did instead of accepting his fate
Man named the Rainmaker takes over the world in 6 months and the first thing he did when he got to power is close the loops, nobody really knows who he is
Future Joe says he is going after the Rainmaker in this time to save his wife
Present Joe meets a woman named Sarah at the location of the Rainmaker where she takes care of a young boy who is presumably the future Rainmaker
Past Joe knows that the Rainmaker is one of three kids so he plans to kill them all
Present Joe seems to be at the house of the most likely Rainmaker as he seems to have telekinetic powers
More is revealed and Future Joe has a child with his wife
The boy tells Joe that he wasn't strong enough to save his mom and tells him that he wants to stop bad things from happening
Really good scene at the kitchen table with the boy, eerie feeling
Sarah reveals to us that her sister raised her son and that's who died and ever since the boy won't call his real mom his mom
Really good scene with the kid freaking out and he has a lot of pent up anger inside of him from his aunts death
The combination of his powers and anger tell the audience that he is in fact the Rainmaker who takes over the world
Future Joe gets captured going after the second kid
Joe has sex with Sarah and we discover that she is TK too further solidifying that her kid is the Rainmaker
Nice scene with Sarah talking about what she is willing to do for her son and about her past failures
Get to see the boys true powers when he makes everything in a room levitate and kills a man with his mind, Joe gets to see how dangerous he is
Sarah pleads for her sons life as she thinks she can raise him to use the powers for good and Joe knows what he becomes
We see him and know what he becomes but he is just a scared kid who is frustrated with the world
Joe tells Sarah to leave with her son as everyone is going to be coming to their location
Future Joe goes in a killing spree at the mob location when he breaks free killing everyone except the annoying gat man who is also going to the location of the kid
Future Joe and Present Joe meet on the street and now it's a fight for the kids life as Present Joe is now free of the mob because of what Future Joe did
Joe kills the gat man while Future Joe goes after the kid
Future Hoe shoots the kid in the face but survives as it is just a glancing blow and he lets out a shock wave that covers miles
Sarah calms him down when he is about to explode both of them and the boy finally calls Sarah mom
Present Joe sees the future play out in front of him and the creation that this event would turn the boy into and makes the decision to kill him self saving Sarah and her son hoping this will change the future from falling into evil hands
Really good moment
Ultimate moment of sacrifice for the greater good but the future isn't set and Joe misses out on what his life could become for the safety of humanity
Movie challenges the idea of free will and what one person can do
Joe took a chance on the kid turning out good and thought that Chance was worth more than his life
The boy could still turn out to be Hitler or he could change the world for the better
Really good ending with uncertainty on the horizon
Really good performances all around
Well shot
Action scenes were mediocre
Smart film and the time travel stuff makes sense
Cool world that was built and a great plot that is worth being invested in