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- Looper has an unusual balance of intelligence and thrills, plus visual design and sharp dialogue. It's complex enough that sci-fi fans can dig deeper over multiple viewings, but thrilling enough that casual viewers can take it all in with one watch.
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Sep 26, 2012 · Rian Johnson's "Looper," a smart and tricky sci-fi story, sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them. Most time travel movies run into trouble in the final scenes, when impossibilities pile up one upon another.
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Sep 28, 2012 · When the mob wants to eliminate someone, it sends the target into the past, where a hit man known as a looper lies in wait to finish the job.
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Looper follows a suitably dwindling plot that bravely ventures into heady sci-fi territory. The plot centers on Joe, who’s part of the “looper” organization, hitmen who kill victims sent from the future to the past. When his older self returns to try and change his life’s course, Joe must ally with a tough widow and her mysterious son to stop him. ...
For all of Blunt’s acclaim and Gordon-Levitt’s brief moment under the sun, Johnson was the one who made the most out of Looper‘s success. Sure, he got the chance to helm a big-budget space movie that launched a thousand think and hate pieces, each more cynical than the one before. However, Looper‘s true gift to Johnson was prestige and respect, two...
Despite its brilliance — yes, Johnson should have been nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; no, I won’t take any questions on the matter — Looper‘s legacy might amount to nothing more than “the film that made Rian Johnson an in-demand director.” And while it’s a perfectly respectable reputation, Looperdeserves much more love. Sci-f...
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- The first time Old Joe pops back to the present, he escapes. Later we see him die in the same place. Which happens first and why the deception? The first time we see Old Joe and he escapes is actually the second time he appears in the straight story.
- The film surmises Old Joe killing Sarah eventually made Cid become the Rainmaker. But Old Joe can't become Old Joe without first being killed and letting Young Joe grow up to meet his wife.
- Both times Old Joe comes back to the present, he's running late on Young Joe's watch. The time he escapes, it makes sense because of the fight. Why would he be late the time he dies too?
- How does murder work in the future? Why can't the mobsters kill there and what happens when Joe's wife is killed? The film mentions briefly mentions that, in the future, tracking technology stops murders from happening.
Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action-thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Ram Bergman and James D. Stern. It stars Bruce Willis , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , and Emily Blunt .
Sep 28, 2022 · Set in 2044, Looper follows Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a triggerman, or “Looper,” working for a Kansas City crime syndicate from the future that sends targets back in time to be assassinated.
Sep 28, 2012 · In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination. Director. Rian Johnson.
