Directed By: Rian Johnson
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels
Rating:
R for strong violence, language, some sexuality/nudity, and drug content
Run Time: 1 hour, 58 minutes
Synopsis: In the future, time travel exists but is illegal. Only the mob uses it
to send marks back in time to be killed by specialized assassins called
Loopers. When they want to end their contracts with their assassins, they send
their older versions back to be killed by their younger versions, a practice
called “closing the loop.” One looper named Joe (Gordon-Levitt) fails to do so
when he recognizes his older self (Willis), accidentally letting himself
escape, causing a man-hunt and possible catastrophic changes to the future.
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! Last night Sarah and I caught an evening showing of this
weekend’s highly-anticipated science-fiction movie Looper, directed by Rian
Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises), Bruce Willis
(Moonrise
Kingdom) and Emily Blunt (The Five-Year Engagement).
To quickly set it up, JGL plays
Joe, a specialized assassin called a “looper” living in Kansas circa 2044. As
Joe says in the movie, time travel hasn’t been invented yet but by 2074 it will
have been and will be illegal so the only people who use it are the mafia. They
send back their marks to 2044 where Joe and his fellow loopers wait for them
and kill them immediately upon arrival.
One day, though, Joe
hesitates to kill his mark because he recognizes him as his future self, who
then escapes and the film sort of becomes a hunt between the two, though Older
Joe ends up having an alternate agenda as well. We don’t want to say too much
because the beauty of this movie was that…
Sarah:
The marketing didn’t give, really, ANY of the story away. They lead you to
believe the film is one way when it’s actually quite different, in my opinion
at least.
A:
Yeah, so props to people on the blogosphere and the film’s marketing department
for not spoil anything. (More after the jump)
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| One of the best and most pivotal scenes in Looper between Old Joe (Willis) and Young Joe (Gordon-Levitt) takes place in this diner, prominently featured in the film's marketing. |
