benjaminweber First of all, there was some attempt to make an original time travel film here. Secondly, it was well-acted by everyone in the cast, including the child actors. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were great choices for the hardened, older and brash, younger versions of the same man. It is well scored, and well directed. Sadly, this cannot save a film that has a hastily written plot just to make a time travel film.The central premise of the film, that in the future time travel is used to send people back in time to be assassinated because it is impossible to dispose of bodies, is immediately flawed when you realise they could just send the dead body back in time and directly into a furnace, cutting out the middleman. This is particularly of note when we see gangsters actually kill a civilian in the future, indicating they're more than happy to do the deed just to keep their operations silent and that they more than likely kill just as many in the future as they send back. So again, why bother with time travel, especially seeing as the film emphasises that time travel is especially illegal?!The actual mechanisms of time travel seem to be as confused as the reasons for it as well. It spends a lot of time setting up that when someone travels into the past, changes to the past only catch up with them once they pass the point when the change physically occurs. There is one scene making this gruesomely clear, in which a young looper is dismembered as his older self falls apart on the street outside. This is later reinforced with Bruce Willis' memories. This raises another fundamental question with the plot: why did the Rainmaker rise to power on account of his rough upbringing before Bruce Willis travelled back in time to cause his rough upbringing? In Willis' future, he shot his older self as a young man and never went near the farm, meaning the Rainmaker would not exist, at least not as a hardened criminal. He would have no one to stop upon travelling to the past, and would not have even had his loop closed since the Rainmaker was the one closing the loops. As a side note on the same topic, why did he vanish when Gordon-Levitt shot himself? As established earlier, he should have simply turned into a corpse!These weren't the only two issues I had with the plot, but they were the two that really crippled it for me. The earlier throwaway line about telekinesis seemed like forced foreshadowing in hindsight, but at least didn't create plot holes. There were other issues, but I've already written too much! 5/10

cricketbat Looper is a clever film. Time travel is always a sticky issue, but this movie embraces the impossibilities and invites the audience to just enjoy the ride. And whatever flaws this movie has, it makes up for it with its creativity. Plus, Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes a great Bruce Willis. We need more movies like Looper.

joewilliams-01809 It's been a year since I saw this once as a blind buy of buying Blu-Rays, As soon as I watched it, this film blew me away. The cast were amazing even the child actor did well in this film, Bruce Willis was fine while Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt did a fantastic job. The plot was interesting, even if a lot of it are plot holes, but the way it was executed was damn good. The score was meh, the action in this were alright but I don't really care about those just story alone was just creative and again executed well. The director, in Rian Johnson, did a fantastic job in directing this fun thrilling sci-fi film. The negatives outweighs it's negative and I recommend you yo watch this film.

imdb-15773 The writer/director has had a reasonable and interesting concept but didn't have the writing or directorial skills to pull it off. This would have been so better given to someone actually with talent in those areas.Most of the negative reviews do correctly identify the downsides to this film, except the ridiculous one pulling is "misogyny" when it's non-existent. I'm not going to do a synopsis of the issues as others have correctly identified them.For me the summary is a film that passes time, has interesting concepts but was a wasted opportunity because of poor execution and writing.