Joseph-Gordon-Levit (JGL) and Bruce Willis came together and created a superb film named “Looper.” The location takes place in a futuristic Kansas where it has became a huge metropolitan state. People who make up the state are extremely poor and begging for money every chance they get. The economy is in bad shape, and jobs are hard to come by.
The story line consists of a looper (JGL) whose job requires him to go out to certain locations where he lays a white sheet on the ground and slowly watches his pocket watch. A man then appears with his head covered, hands tied, and a brown sack over his body. JGL then holding his blunder buster (very powerful shotgun) where he then executes the criminal the mob has sent back from the year 2074 to the present year 2044.
Time travel is illegal in the future, and the Mob is the only one that has control over it. The boss that runs the looper organization is an old man sent from the future who makes the jobs possible. After a looper has completed his deed, he rips off the brown sack and takes these silver bars, where you go back to the looper head quarters and exchange them for money.
Through out the movie, JGL has done about six or seven normal deeds, until he’s faced with something he has never seen before. JGL always has his stopwatch on him, and when the time comes to execute the time traveler, no one appears. JGL then becomes antsy and sweaty, wondering where the time traveler is. All of a sudden an old man appears with hands not tied and face fully shown.
Watching this movie made me question what I saw multiple times, because the story line had many twists and turns which could result in many endings. The story was creative and original; it was something I had never seen or heard about, which is what movies lack these days.
The cast was well chosen which complimented the movie; JGL and Willis were at their best. The action scenes where great and even gory which I enjoy, but some people may not. I highly recommend you go watch this action packed and mind boggling movie.
