{5\/5} “‘I’m going to France.’ ‘I’m from the future. Go to China.'”<\/p>\n
Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be in 30 years. In the future a criminal organization uses time travel to dispose of people they want killed — they hire loopers in the current time to kill the people that show up at a certain time and place, and dispose of the bodies. Joe is a looper who’s good at his job — and uses a lot of drugs in his time off. One day when Joe is all set to kill, a man shows up without the customary bag over his head. It’s Joe himself, 30 years older — the organization wants to “close the loop.” Can Joe really kill his older self?<\/p>\n
Looper<\/strong>, released in 2012<\/p>\n Wow, I haven’t been this surprised at the movie theatre in a while — I was expecting it to be good but it was very very good. It’s not every day you see a new 5\/5 science fiction movie — in the last couple of years, there was The Adjustment Bureau<\/strong> and Inception<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Time travel is sometimes silly, but this is a serious depiction of it — like in Twelve Monkeys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It was such a joy to watch — you didn’t know where the story was going to go, but it made sense. There were several interesting characters to follow. At one point Joe shows up at Sara’s house — in a fabulous introduction to her character Sara comes out with a shotgun, thinking he’s a vagrant.<\/p>\n The movie is quite violent. I try to limit the amount of violence I see — for one thing, I don’t watch movies that I would categorize as senseless violence (Sin City<\/strong>, the movies of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger). In this case, the violence is an integral part of the story — and the story is extremely interesting.<\/p>\n I didn’t notice the music in the movie. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t good — it means I was totally engrossed in the story.<\/p>\n Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/a>, 500 Days of Summer<\/strong>) and Bruce Willis (Twelve Monkeys<\/strong>, The Sixth Sense<\/strong>) play young Joe and old Joe respectively (Gordon-Levitt with prosthetics to make him look more like Willis). Emily Blunt (Sunshine Cleaning<\/strong>) plays Sara — she acts so well in this movie that I wasn’t sure it was her. Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine<\/strong>) plays Seth, Joe’s friend and fellow looper. Jeff Daniels (the TV show The Newsroom<\/strong><\/a>) plays Abe, the boss of the looper operation in the present time. Garret Dillahunt (the TV show Raising Hope<\/strong><\/a>) plays Jesse.<\/p>\n Noah Segan (Brick<\/strong>) plays Kid Blue. Pierce Gagnon (the TV show One Tree Hill<\/strong>) plays Cid, Sara’s son.<\/p>\n The movie was written and directed by Rian Johnson (The Brothers Bloom<\/strong>). I will definitely be seeking out his other movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “‘I’m going to France.’ ‘I’m from the future. Go to China.’” Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it will be in 30 years. In the future a criminal organization uses time travel to dispose of people they want killed — they hire loopers in the current time to kill the people that show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}