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.
