Background
Looper

Looper

2012
118 min
Action Thriller Science Fiction

Plot Summary

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe 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 for assassination.

6.9
IMDb Rating
Section Order: 1. Cast & Crew 2. Ratings 3. Technical 4. Trailer 5. Reviews 6. Recommendations 7. Music Reorder
Section reordering is now active! Sections display in your custom order.

Ratings & Reviews

6.9
IMDb Rating

Technical Details

118 min
Runtime
2012-09-26
Release Date
Movie
Content Type
2012
Year
Genres
Action Thriller Science Fiction

Watch Trailer

User Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7.0/10
Recent

At the start this reminded me a little of “Jumper” (2008) as it delivers a cleverly crafted idea of how murder might look in the 22nd century. It’s the ruthless “Joe” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is in the employ of the mob and is routinely and lucratively waiting for their troublemakers to be sent back a few decades in time so he can eliminate them and leave no modern day traces of the crime.  The snag with this operation for the “looper” is, though, that sooner or later they themselves have to g...

Read Full Review

Per Gunnar Jonsson

6.0/10
Recent

I am normally fairly hesitant concerning time-travel movies because it is next to impossible to get them right. They more or less always become very unrealistic and full of paradoxes. I would almost go as far as to say that producers making serious (non-comedy) time travel movies are the ones that are scientifically too stupid to realise that it is just going to be a mess, or they do not really care about the issues hoping that the audience also will not care. This movie is really proof of th...

Read Full Review

jw

5.0/10
Recent

neither here nor there Time travel can be an exciting plot device - if the writers take time to check and get everything right. Unfortunately, with Looper, they did not. Nor did director or producers choose a clear direction what this movie was supposed to be, what its pace and atmosphere should be like. So it turned out to be full of wasted potential. Good ideas, characters, situations, plot elements it all had at some points - but none developed, really. That's more disappointing that i...

Read Full Review

You Might Also Like

External Links

IMDb
tt1276104
TMDb
59967
Technical Info
2012-09-26
OMDb API