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Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 222
Fresh: 207 | Rotten: 15
As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action.
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 2
As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action.
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In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good... until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. -- (C) Sony
R, 1 hr. 58 min.
Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sep 28, 2012 Wide
$40.2M
Sony Pictures
All Critics (222) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (207) | Rotten (15)
The reasoning behind all this may not reward prolonged inspection, but Johnson is smart enough to press onward with his plot, leaving us with neither the time nor the desire to linger over the logic ...
Writer-director Rian Johnson establishes himself as an original talent who clearly believes storytelling must prevail.
A mind-bending ride that is not afraid to slow down now and again, to explore themes of regret and redemption, solitude and sacrifice, love and loss. It's a movie worth seeing and, perhaps, going back to see again.
Looper has more heart than Brick and the 2008 con-man flick The Brothers Bloom. Both fine achievements, they could also be described as viscerally cerebral.
I'm a sucker for time-travel movies.
Looper felt to me like a maddening near-miss ...
Truly imaginative but all the twists and turns make the overall film difficult to follow. Plus Gordon-Levitt has not reached leading man status yet.
Kind of a reverse-"Terminator" without any of James Cameron's wit (or wisdom),
An endlessly creative mind-blowing film that captures everything right about the movie going experience. Johnson conjures up the most imaginative action/science fiction film since 'Inception.'
Part science fiction, part mob movie, and with a nice infusion of dark comedy at just the right moments, Looper is Johnson's best movie yet, and manages to be hugely entertaining, affecting, and thought-provoking.
takes us far beyond the film's high-concept premise into the kind of emotional terrain that too often escapes even the best genre filmmakers
Doesn't quite reach the heights of the lofty ideals that it so ardently seeks to expound, but makes up for this with the sheer thrill of the journey Rian Johnson takes us on.
Ingenious with a fine performance by Emily Blunt, but far too much cold-blooded violence.
Engaging, exciting, and successfully cross-breeding elements of Terminator and even Pet Sematary, Looper is a solid work of palatable science-fiction.
Looper's super. An action-thriller that bothers to have a brain.
Looper may not take us back to the future as satisfyingly as Robert Zemeckis' Marty McFly trilogy or James Cameron's Terminator franchise, but writer-director Rian Johnson does enough right to all but guarantee that he has a future cult film on the books.
The best time travel films play on emotion rather than logic, and once Looper realises this and drops all the tail-chasing about how time travel works it settles into the engrossing action/drama about destiny it should have been from the get go.
Has more depth, smarts, and heart than the usual sci-fi bluster.
A just about brilliant sci-fi crime-drama-thriller mostly set in the years 2044 and 2074. Rian Johnson is a rare director who creates entertainment with depth.
The key to enjoying the gruesome violence mixed with a healthy potion of emotional depth rarely found in this genre is to not dwell on the fiction in the science.
Sometimes time travel is just used a cheap device in movies to make them seem different; this is not one of those films. It's genuinely unique and fresh.
Very entertaining on many, many levels.
The best kind of light entertainment that expects you to be just as intelligent as it is.
It's complex enough that sci-fi fans can dig deeper over multiple viewings, but thrilling enough that casual viewers can take it all in with one watch.
...an above-average sci-fi tale.
Rian Johnson makes a loud, dark, highly stylized film that looks good but whose ideas do not really bear close examination.
"Looper" is entertaining but very flawed. The main problem is that it uses a single timeline; in the next paragraph I will explain how it can't work. Regardless, it is a fun film to discuss with friends afterwards, even if it doesn't make much sense. Bruce Willis is once again a badass who can take out 20 armed men by
September 13, 2012Super Reviewer
A fantastically entertaining and thought-provoking Sci-Fi actioneer, Looper is stuffed with a plethora of slick visuals, visceral thrills and intelligent commentary on the state of our society. Furthermore, its backed by some seriously impressive performances: Bruce Willis is as grizzled and magnetic as ever, and
September 11, 2012Super Reviewer
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