Storyline
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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Nick Gomez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo, Robert Harvey, Emily Blunt, Tracie Thoms, David Jensen, Adam Boyer, Pierce Gagnon, Ritchie Montgomery, Jeff Chase, Garret Dillahunt, Kenneth Brown Jr., Sylvia Jefferies, Jeff Daniels, Marcus Hester, Ian Patrick, Thirl Haston, James Landry Hébert, Josh Perry, Xu Qing, Jon Eyez, Frank Brennan, Noah Segan, Kevin Stillwell, Cody Wood, Kamden Beauchamp, David Joseph Martinez, Wayne Dehart, Craig Johnson, Rachel Acuna, Lauren Alexandra
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Reviews
100
Boxoffice Magazine
Director Rian Johnson's resulting film, a cornfield neo-noir, is the coolest, most-confident sci-fi flick since 2006's "Children of Men."
100
The best sci-fi movie since "Moon." The best time-travel yarn since "12 Monkeys." And one of the best films of 2012. You'll immediately want to see it again.
100
Empire
Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species - too much physics and there's a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex. Looper isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart.
83
Perhaps the most thrilling thing about Looper is watching Johnson really grow leaps and bounds as a filmmaker.
80
The Guardian
Once you commit to the lexicon – to the blunderbusses, the silver, the loops that close and the loops let run – you're in for a breathless ride. It's been a patchy summer for sci-fi, absent of anything that really sticks in the mind. Johnson's deep, distinctive film plays on repeat.
