Looper

Instead of reviewing Looper, I'd much rather like to write, at length, about the various issues surrounding the portrayal of time travel in the movie. Looper doesn't necessarily add anything new to the time-travel genre, but it does make for an engaging experience. Looper doesn't end up being anything like the movie you'd think it would be based on the trailers, and is a better film because of this. Both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis portray deep, engaging characters, with Bruce Willis playing a much more complex character than his younger counterpart. The setting for the film was awesome, with the films events taking place across a decaying city and the rural setting that surrounds the city. I don't really want to discuss the time-travelling elements of the film, but it's fair to say that not much about it is that new. The time-travelling in the film is something like an upside-down version of Terminator with  interweaving timelines.

I think the film was really well done, but perhaps could have been a bit more polished. Time-travel is an enormously complex topic, and is well fleshed-out in Looper. Some blogs seem to be talking about multiple paradox's in the movie, but I think these paradox's only exist if you are making assumptions about what is happening or will happen from the moment you start watching. Watch the movie with an open mind, otherwise you will end up having been disapointed.

Rating: 8/10