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Review:

Looper (2012)

Score: 8/10

Director: Rian Johnson

Stars: Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Jeff Daniels.

Looper

Emily Blunt

Synopsis: A mob hit man known as a looper comes face to face with his future self, who tries to stop a major event from taking place that will change his time line for better or for worse.

Review: In the year 2074 a guy named Joe ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt ) is known as a “looper”, a person who works for the mob and kills their target by waiting in one designated spot in the past, as the mob sends a person they want killed in their time line "the future" into the past, where the looper waits for the target to appear in front of them, and shoots them dead. One day Joe is chosen to have his loop closed. The mob sends his future self into the past to be killed by his younger self and gold is attached to the future version’s body as a payout for his younger self’s work. Joe fails to kill his older self (Bruce Willis ) and Old Joe begins his personal mission of hunting down his enemy from the future by killing him in the past ( yes, it’s as weird as it sounds ).

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Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt fakes a perfect American accent. She has somewhat of an action role in this movie. I really like seeing this side of her acting range and even enjoyed seeing her in the film Edge of Tomorrow (2014) with Tom Cruise and Sicario (2015) with Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro. Of course most people in this film would call the police if a strange man came to your house and said that his future self is trying to kill your son, but for what we got, it was good. Bruce Willis is playing yet another hit man like in the film Lucky Number Slevin (2006). Of course both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis do great in this movie. It’s always good to cast A-listers in your film if they will play in it. For most screen writers and no-name directors, casting A-listers in their movies are the only reason they even got their crap scripts green lit by a studio and the only reason they aren’t unemployed while living like a bum in Burbank California.

Old Joe

Bruce Willis

The film has a psychological focus very similar to the trolley problem in choice theory. Do you kill one person to save many more? Without spoiling the movie, this is a major crossroads for our main protagonist. Those who are fans of the TV show The Good Place might find some interest in this movie. Essentially the film is going to ask the question, what it means to be good. The character of Joe is walking the line of the light side and the dark. By any stretch of the imagination the main protagonist is a villain. He is a hit man for the mob after all. The questions here is do we judge him? Of course. Is he a man of his time? Yes. Does this make him a product of his environment? Yes. The film posits that good people will do bad thing when put in the wrong environment and bad people will do good things when put in the right environment. Of course the bad people will still do bad things on the side. Certain scenes show Joe taking questionable actions all throughout the film. As with Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), the main protagonist will have to make a very important choice that is both life changing and life ending.

Joe

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Rian Johnson’s cinematography is excellent. No thousands of crazy cuts in the middle of the fight scenes and no shaking of the camera in order to create more tension. Just a smooth use of the camera that allows us the audience to take in what we see in the movie. The lighting, color, set dressing, backgrounds, and wardrobe are all excellent. I like how this film has a unique and a mostly unpredictable story. The movie is above average and worth a watch if you’re bored.

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