I was so annoyed about the prosthetics to try to make Joseph Gordon Levitt look like Bruce Willis. My brain knows what JGL looks like, and making him look slightly different than that was unsettling, and he didn't even look like Bruce! If you want him to look like Bruce, you better shave that head.
Looper
Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.
Rating
2.5 (1)
Release Date
9/26/2012Runtime
118 minsOverview
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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A taut, time-warped noir thriller where a contract killer faces the terrifying logic of his own profession when forced to assassinate his future self. It's intellectually sharp and emotionally ruthless, building dread through both high-concept sci-fi and intimate moral collapse.
Mood
TenseParanoidBleakDefiant
Themes
SurvivalIdentityCrimeAddiction
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
Stylized genreHigh-contrastDesaturated
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceSuicide and self-harmChild endangerment
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