Excellent 40mins in a 2hr movie

Rating: 7/10 (2 December 2012)

It's not giving anything away to say that Looper involves time travel.
The first 40 minutes of this movie are excellent with a convoluted story-line that makes you think whilst enjoying the swirling action.
And then the lead characters come together in a diner.
From here out the movie drops a couple of levels and becomes a generic action movie where one person is trying to get another person whilst another wants to stop him, along with the usual array of involved parties (mothers, mobsters, etc). I thought the mother figure might just as well have been called Sarah Connor.
It's also one of those movies where you have to fill in some plot holes yourself.
The acting is mostly flat and I didn't find any character that I could care for.
So for me, the second two-thirds was a disappointment given how well the movie started.
But if you are happy with a generic action movie, you could do a lot worse.