Great Sci-Fi Movie with a Intelligent Story

Rating: 8/10 (6 January 2013)

Great Sci-Fi movie, in a dystopian near future (2044) where in the future of this future criminals are sent to be killed and theirs bodies dispatched in the past (the present one, where the film begins) through a time machine, which is banned in the future and is considered illegal. The executioners are called Loopers, and receive payments in silver bars, attached in the victims bodies.
Everything is well, until the Loopers start having completed their cycles (ie 30 years after, they are sent from the future to be killed, and so the evidences about the crimes are gone), in a increasing frequency...
The film uses almost no special effects, has several action scenes, and the film sets use suburban environments, with the classic future of marginalized people, and vehicles in most scenes that have implementations, but are our current ones with low-cost technologies, with a nice retro look. Some devices in the movie are nice future versions of the ones we have, like glass-like cellphones and holographic computers.
The performances are very good, especially for a boy who appears later in the film (Pierce Gagnon, only 05 years old), and that surprise yourself! The other performances are good, especially of Bruce Willis, but the protagonist, Joseph Gordon-Levitt I didn't found so good, perhaps because he was trying to imitate the way Bruce Willis is acting (of his version of 30 years in the future).
The script is very interesting and has some twists and scenes in the future that explain the past and vice versa, but nothing as complex in Inception or Memento - from the middle of the movie things start to be interesting and the film's ending is very surprising and interesting.
Briefly is a great sci-fi, with a very smart script and solid performances in a credible future. One of the best films of the year 2012 in the genre in my opinion. Rating: 8.5 / 10.0.