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User Reviews for: Looper

quovis
CONTAINS SPOILERS/10  3 years ago
I watched this movie twice in a few years. The first time it was fun, mainly because of the time travel premise, sci-fi, action stuff, there were actors I like (Jeff Daniel, Bruce Willis, JGL, Em Blunt), and I heard about it so much. The second time I watched, which is quite recent, I only got reminded two things:
1. Suicide can result from a split-second decision and happen in an instance. Bam. You’re done for. Gone. No more memories. No more chance to look back, to regret or have any feeling or thought. No more past. No more future. You just stop living. You’re dead. THAT is scary
2. Men’s lives are expendable, as usually expected, and such narrative continues to be perpetuated by men, which is weird. I’m not even as much of a selfish junky as Joe was initially depicted to be, but I would no way in Hell sacrifice my own life like Joe did in the end, in hopes of “closing the loop”, to save a stranger’s creepy boy, who has killed and is ending up killing everyone including myself, and his mother, who hooked up with me once, from being killed by my own future self.
The whole movie’s plot is like a slap in the audience’s face. I actually Googled to see if anyone else wanted Cid and his mom to be killed instead of Joe killing himself. Turns out most people either loved the movie or hated it because the movie had too many ‘loopholes’. I didn’t care much about its numerous logical inconsistencies, which ultimately led me to this review, its bad CGI or the makeup for JGL (which irked me more than if they didn’t try to make him look like Bruce Willis, I wouldn’t care honestly). The fact that I despised the ending (at this point the whole story except its premise) says enough about the poor character development, the bad storytelling, and an overall lousy motion picture that was fun for a mindless watch, but utterly ridiculous and stupid pretending to be smart.
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drqshadow
8/10  4 years ago
A bright, complex challenge to some of time travel's longest-running traps, backed by a seriously curvy, dazzling plot. Although some holes can't be avoided, (that goes with the territory) Looper is able to lean on its high-concept premise for support during such moments and effectively gloss them over.

Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, no strangers to sci-fi action sagas, seem perfectly at-home in this oddly familiar future setting, and though they're hounded by a violent gang of darkly-clad killers, the film's bleakest role alternates repeatedly between its two leading players. There's a lot to celebrate in the details here, from the oil crusted, not-so-distant future (which, admirably, looks an awful lot like the present) to the strict rules and regulations of the core concept, and for a short while the film seems content to toy with the spoils of its own ingenuity.

Of course, there's also a time for leaving such trivialities behind, and Looper doesn't back away from it. When push comes to shove, it smartly explores the depth and dimensionality of its cast before ultimately pursuing an unexpected, yet appropriate, final destination. Smart, savvy and convincing, my one qualm is that it's occasionally too passive in pressing the accelerator. Worthy of (and rewarding to) multiple viewings.
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Per Gunnar Jonsson
/10  6 years ago
I am normally fairly hesitant concerning time-travel movies because it is next to impossible to get them right. They more or less always become very unrealistic and full of paradoxes. I would almost go as far as to say that producers making serious (non-comedy) time travel movies are the ones that are scientifically too stupid to realise that it is just going to be a mess, or they do not really care about the issues hoping that the audience also will not care.

This movie is really proof of this. It is full of paradoxes and annoying “but if this happened now then that couldn’t have happened then and vice versa”. Maybe some people can force themselves overlooking these things but I have some difficulty doing so. I fully agree with the statement that one of the characters in the movie was making: “"This time travel crap, just fries your brain like an egg…".

Anyway, trying to pierce through the cloud of time-travel issues and enjoy the movie, it is not a bad movie. Given that it really had no chance of succeeding in the science area, or have a plot which didn’t defy all logic (time travel you know) it does indeed make a valiant try to entertain. It is not one of Bruce Willies standard all-out action-filled roller-coasters. That is not to say that there is no action but there is also plenty of time for trying to actually tell the story in the movie. The movie is actually quite dark and melancholic. The future seems to be fairly dirty, run down and ridden with criminal organisations.

As if time-travel itself wasn’t bad enough the story also involves 10% of the population having developed psychic powers. Most of them good for nothing except cheap show tricks like levitating small objects. Most of them…except our future crime lord which of course is found to have super-psychic powers. Also, of course, the kid had to behave like a spoiled brat with anger problems which was somewhat annoying.

The ending, which I will not divulge here of course, was not very surprising and left quite a few open questions. On the whole I would say that the movie was entertaining but it is far from going on my top ten list.
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cineast78
/10  one year ago
**Half-baked and weak genre mix with a pale Bruce Willis**

The main character is an anti-hero and isn't able to win the viewer over story emotionally - that would be OK if the story were at least coherent - but it isn't. The time travel logic doesn't work. The telekinesis nonsense seems incredibly pointless. The love story(s) is or are hardly comprehensible. And many plot elements are started without being brought to a meaningful end. Too bad - there was potentials there. So the whole thing is nothing more than a solid ordinary movie, despite all the genres that are (unnecessarily) mixed up in it.

The only ray of light for me in the movie: The mask and facial expressions by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who manages to give a fun impression of a young Bruce Willis.
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jw
/10  4 years ago
neither here nor there

Time travel can be an exciting plot device - if the writers take time to check and get everything right. Unfortunately, with Looper, they did not. Nor did director or producers choose a clear direction what this movie was supposed to be, what its pace and atmosphere should be like. So it turned out to be full of wasted potential. Good ideas, characters, situations, plot elements it all had at some points - but none developed, really.

That's more disappointing that if it had had no potential. Wasted opportunities... in a loop.
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