1st attempt at a review, Looper

Looper

Director: Rian Johnson

Writer: Rian Johnson

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily blunt.

Genre: Action, Si-Fi, Thriller

Setting: A futuristic state in America where there is a high amount of poverty, and crime is in power.

Plot: In 2074 it has become almost impossible to kill someone and not get caught, so mob bosses send people thirty years back in time to be killed by hired gunmen called looper’s . One of the rules is that you can’t let your target live, but when Joe (Joseph Gordon-levitt) finds that he was sent his future self (Bruce Willis), to close the loop/ end his contract he hesitates and in that moment his target runs off. Joe must now find his target, his future self before the people he works for find him and kill him for letting is target go.

The general idea of the film, a man killing people from the future and then one of his targets (his future self) escaping and he has to find and kill him seems bland. As I looked at it it schemed like it would just be another film with a weak story line/plot and field with action and violence too try and compensate. But when I came to watch it I found that the story had more depth and style to it and at its centre there is an emotion story about revenge and it's ongoing cycle. It's because of it's story line and excellent timing that it can stand high with other grate time-travel films like “Back To The Future” and The Terminator”.

As this film starts it shows you Joe's life, his relation with others and who he is as a person and as the plot thickens when Joe's future self runs off we get to see his life start to crumble as he's trying to save himself from the people he works. As this is happening his future self is out seeking his revenge by changing his/the past and also trying to protect his passed self from the people who are hunting him down.

The timing of the film was done especially well as after we see one of his days some background music starts to build up as it starts to flash past his days showing how his life is a routine as it gradually gets faster until one night where his friend tuns up out of the blue in the middle of the night. And after this they continue to build to action scenes and and change the pacing of the film in a way that draws you into it, creating the illusion that this is/will happen.