In 2072, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self.
A genre-blending, time-bending morality tale, Johnson’s bravado will leave you breathless.
The best sci-fi movie since Moon. The best time-travel yarn since 12 Monkeys. And one of the best films of 2012. You’ll immediately want to see it again.
A delicious movie with some imaginative curveballs.
Muscular and consistently unpredictable, this is genre filmmaking at its most confident and sophisticated.
Hits the mark with superb characters and real depth of vision.
One of the smartest pictures of the year.
It’s impossible not to be tickled by the playful logic of Rian Johnson’s Looper, a fashionably sleek, unfashionably smart science-fiction film that tick-tick-ticks along with pocket-watch precision.
Pure pulp time-travel insanity.
I left Looper dizzy with excitement, and also just dizzy.
The first half of writer/director Rian Johnson's film is gripping, but by the second half it's all become unbelievably confused and disjointed.
Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species — too much physics and there’s a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex. Looper isn’t perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart.
It's enjoyable, but less so than either The Terminator or a Terrence Malick film.
Intelligent, darkly humourous and stylised.
It's one of those pictures that courts the adjective "thoughtful" but doesn't stand up to much thinking about.
Looper
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