Looper Movie Reviews

I love the word blunderbuss. Born out of the Dutch for thunder-box, it describes an antiquated shotgun making up for limited range with tremendous brain-splattering force. It is a word of another time, one of many beautifully asynchronous touches in Rian Johnson's Looper, a fantastic film set three (and six) decades into the future, where an assassin fetishises pocket-watches and has a thing for record players. As scripts about dystopian futures go

Imagine a band of assassins in Kansas City, circa 2044. Referred to as 'loopers', they are tasked with annihilating people sent back 30 years in time by the criminals of the future. Imagine too the dilemma facing the youngest hitman when he discovers that his next target is an older version of his own self. This is the first of several twists and turns that occur throughout the tantalising time-travel thriller. The multi-layered screenplay of

Looper, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as younger and older versions of the same person, is a deliciously complex and fast-paced sci-fi thriller that’s likely to satisfy both, fans of popcorn movies and those seeking more cerebral entertainment. Set in 2044, the film stars Gordon-Levitt as Joe, a low-level hitman – or a Looper – working for mobsters in the year 2074, who use an illegal time machine to send their victims back three decades

Looper, an obstreperously entertaining, bullet-and attitude-ridden science-fiction pastiche, opens in a futuristic world that looks and sounds paradoxically out of the past. Set in 2044, in a dystopia with Turner Classic Movies flavour, it puts a spin on the familiar figure of the existentially troubled gun for hire while leaving a layer of dust on many of the other genre fundamentals it plays with. Some of it you’ve seen and heard before, intentionally so

TIME travel is a conveninent science fiction tool, allowing many a story to cut corners and jump loopholes. Not here. In Looper, it's a starting point to tell a story about actions, consequences and choices -- the smaller moments, not 30-year back-and-forth travel, which bend and shape lives. Johnson handles these moments with a startlingly light but assured touch, giving us heartwarming stories even as he is building a bleak futuristic city populated by

Every time Hollywood attempts a film based on time travel, fellows with a penchant for numbers and equations jump at their relativity books and point out the flaws in the logic. Invariably, many films that do employ time jumps end up shooting themselves in the foot. But, the time travel concept has also given us classics like Back To The Future series, The Terminator films, Planet Of The Apes etc. But in almost every film (barring Planet Of The Apes) the logic seems

TIME travel is a conveninent science fiction tool, allowing many a story to cut corners and jump loopholes. Not here. In Looper, it's a starting point to tell a story about actions, consequences and choices -- the smaller moments, not 30-year back-and-forth travel, which bend and shape lives. Johnson handles these moments with a startlingly light but assured touch, giving us heartwarming stories even as he is building a bleak futuristic city populated by

Looper' is the new time-travel flick on the block that delivers entertainment wrapped in brilliant inventiveness. It is also a movie that is bound to leave man, woman and everything in between longing to , one day, strike up a conversation with Joseph Gordon-Levitt at a bar (and hopefully have him take you home later). Joe (Gordon-Levitt) is an assassin working in 2044 for Abe (Jeff Daniels), a crime boss sent back from the future

There might be some good jobs left in 2044, but being a looper or the killer of men from the future (where time-travel is officially banned) sent to the past by crimelords, isn't one of them. When the contract expires, so does he (well the older version himself from 2074 , technically!). And who kills them? Why the younger version of the looper himself. When the hardened future version (Willis) of the wayward Joe (Gordon-Levitt) is beamed back, he has no intention

It’s probably too soon to rejoice that a golden age of action-cum-sci-fi filmmaking is upon us, but there are at least glimmers of a trend, thanks to recent releases such as Inception, The Book of Eli, In Time, The Adjustment Bureau, Limitless, and, now, Rian Johnson’s Looper. After a period where science fiction was merely a backdrop on which to paint increasingly complex visual effects — nothing wrong with that, certainly, but just how many movies

You live your life and then wish, ‘If I could go into the past, I would change this or do things this way…’ What if your wish came true? What if you get to live life twice – one, your complete life and the other in the past? Sounds complicated, but Looper is sure to make you scratch your brains or like Abe (Jeff Daniels) says, “Time-travel is f***ed up, it will fry your brain like an egg!” A futuristic movie, a science-fiction, a gangster movie