[Movie] Looper

A science fiction thriller about time travel used in a criminal way: in the future, disappearing people is not that simple, so the mafia sends all those they want killed into the past, where hired assassins called "Loopers" blast them dead as soon as they arrive, and collect their payment, which is silver bars attached to the body of the victim. When the looper's contract is over, they send their future selves into the past, to be killed by their younger selves, so the "loop is closed" and they can retire to live the rest of their lives enjoying their earnings.

When the main character's "old self" shows up from the future, he manages to get free (complicating everything for his younger self) and is on a mission to kill a powerful crime lord from the future while he's still a young kid in the present time of the movie plot. A lot of action ensues when the younger self tries to stop his old one, leading up to a final confrontation and a possible redefinition of the future.

WHAT TO LOVE
If you're into sci-fi and time travel, definitely those are the elements you're going to love the most in this flick. Plus, the main roster of popular actors Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt ensures a good and talented acting. And speaking of such, Pierce Gagnon really impresses with his performance: finding good child actors is always really hard, but finding someone as good as him, is definitely phenomenal! You can just see him as a powerful criminal in the future, even if he's just a kid now. His work is absolutely one of the highlights of this film, along with the appealing storyline and well-paced plot. Also, you have to love that they used an actual older person to play the main´s character older self, instead the old truck of applying heavy makeup on a young person to make them look old, which always, no matter what, looks bad.

WHAT TO HATE
Ironically, the fact they used two different people to be the two versions of a character also brought something I disliked a lot: the make up and prosthetics they used on Gordon-Levitt to make him look like Bruce Willis was just awful. They don't really look alike not even with those things on, plus, Gordon-Levitt looks so weird, and it's not until you realize Willis plays his future self that you kind of make sense of why he looked so weird and different to the way he normally looks.

WHAT TO IGNORE
The character of Kid Blue really felt forced to be just a glue element to tie a lot of parts of the movie that would be disconnected otherwise. he has no major transcendence other than that. He's just a plot element and had pretty much no value as a character.. they even build him up to show he's dumb and stupid, so, why would he have been hired as a Looper in the first place? The character of the stripper/sex worker Suzie also was totally irrelevant to the overall plot. You have to ignore these facts to truly enjoy this movie, because otherwise it falls apart, if only just a little bit.

THE VERDICT
This is a good movie that, while it doesn't really shine among its peers, still manages to get the job of entertaining the audience done, and also presents a somewhat realistic portrayal of the future, one that is not so far fetched as other movies have shown us. An absolutely recommendation for all lover os science fiction.

Tags: (Movies) Sci-Fi