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.