My Award nominations: Film Editing

Some good variety on display this year in the arena of Film Editing, and my top five are:

Review - Looper

If you want to be thrown for a loop, Looper should be just the ticket; a cleverly imagined time-travel thriller which blends science fiction and action with dashes of horror and dark comedy as present and future selves collide with violent results.

Joseph-Gordon Levitt (made up to resemble a younger Bruce Willis) stars as Joe, a man with a peculiar occupation. He's a “looper”; an assassin employed by mob bosses from the future, who cleanly dispose of their targets by blasting them back to the past for Joe to shoot (with a crude blunderbuss) and incinerate. Paid in silver bars neatly affixed to their victims from the future, loopers are to carry on this way until one day being sent their own future selves to eliminate – “closing the loop”, as the film's rhetoric puts it. But when Joe finally comes face to face with his future self (Bruce Willis himself), a split second's hesitation allows old Joe to escape, hellbent on taking down a future criminal overlord as a child.