Starring: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels
Director: Rian Johnson
The trailer had always intrigued me, the storyline seemed interesting and original and my hopes were high being a Bruce Willis movie.
Set in the year 2044, Joe (Joseph Gordon Levitt), is an assassin, but he's an assassin with a difference. Joes boss gives him a time to be at a location specific to him and a person with a bag over their head and their hands tied behind their back 'appears' before him and he shoots them within seconds. He then retrieves silver ingots strapped to the victims back, disposes of the body and collects his money for a job well done.
Fast forward to the year 2074 where the mob has trouble killing people and disposing of their bodies because of tracking devices. They end up using time travel as a convenient way to send their victims back 30 years to be killed by assassins like Joe, called Loopers.
Now every now and then a Looper shoots a victim and finds gold strapped to their backs instead of silver. This is basically their retrenchment letter as the victim is their future self. This is called 'closing the loop'.
So what do you do when your future self doesn't want to be killed?
There is a huge story to this that at first did my head in, a little bit like Inception, but simpler.
Joseph Gordon Levitt is pretty good as a younger Bruce Willis, but his face freaked me out. Wearing prosthetics through out the movie changed his face completely and I couldn't help but think how weird he looked.
I can't get too much into the storyline as it will give the ending away and the ending was pretty good. I was a bit disappointed as it wasn't wrapped up as neatly as it should have been and there were a few holes in the storyline that could have been patched up pretty easily.
All in all, a pretty decent movie.
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