If you like these types of movies you'll eat it up!

Rating: 9/10 (3 October 2012)

'LOOPER': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis star in this time travel Sci-Fi action film written and directed by Rian Johnson (who also wrote and directed the critically acclaimed crime films 'BRICK', also starring Gordon-Levitt, and 'THE BROTHERS BLOOM'). The story revolves around a future where the mob uses time travel to dispose of bodies and the hit men assigned to do the disposing are called 'loopers'. Gordon-Levitt stars as one such 'looper' and Willis plays his older self, who's sent back for his younger self to get rid of. The film is a pretty fresh and interesting take on the time travel genre and it's excellently crafted by Johnson.
The film is set in the year 2044 when the world has fallen in to another economic recession and organized crime has escalated. Mutations causing telekinetic abilities have also appeared in about 10% of the population as well and crime lords have learned that thirty years in the future time travel will be developed and immediately outlawed. This doesn't stop crime rings from taking advantage of it though and they use it to get rid of bodies, by sending victims back in time to be killed (due to new tracking technology making it impossible to secretly dispose of a body). The men hired to do the disposing are called 'loopers' and when their contracts are up their future self is sent back in time for them to kill, leaving them a limited future of only thirty years but also a hefty paycheck to spend living it. When one such looper, Joe (Gordon-Levitt), fails to kill his future self (Willis) and lets him escape he finds himself in a world of trouble and on the run from the mob. He desperately tries to track his older self down while the 'Old Joe' has a plan of his own in extending his life and future happiness.
The movie is a lot of fun if you like these types of movies. The directing and visuals are topnotch and the story is unique and clever. If you think about certain plot points for too long though (like every time travel movie) you'll start to see a lot of possible plot holes but they're not important to the enjoyment of the film (if you don't let yourself get caught up in them). Willis and Gordon-Levitt are perfectly cast as older and younger versions of each other and it appears as though there's some great CGI and makeup to make Gordon-Levitt look uncannily like a young Bruce Willis. Emily Blunt also has a nice supporting role as the mother of an especially gifted telekinetic mutant (played eerily by Pierce Gagnon). I also really liked how the film kind of makes the viewer surprisingly shift who their rooting for as who appears to be the good guy and who appears to be somewhat of a bad guy changes unexpectedly. The film is most of all highly entertaining. It's dark and violent and definitely not the most uplifting Sci-Fi film but it's still a lot of fun. If you like these types of movies you'll eat it up!
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