Directed by: Rian Johnson
Starring: Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt
Running Time: 118 min
“Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been.”
If you had a chance to kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you do it? The paradox and consequences are confusing and it can make a discussion worthy of several days time with so many pizza boxes lying around.
Looper is this year's Inception (which happened to be starred by Joseph Gordon-Levitt too) and Source Code, a sci-fi that relies heavily on the story, not on the flashy gimmick of time travel. It is also not so hard to understood, however you will always find people scratching their head and asking for explanation.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Joe, a Looper who lives in the year of 2042 where the future is not so different than our time. The visual of the film reminds you of Blade Runner (1982) and Star Trek (2009), the future is not as flashy as Windows 8 or Apple based operating system but a dystopic gritty neo-noir one.
As a Looper his job is to kill people being sent from the future (is there any grammar nazi left in the future?) who suddenly pop out in a cane field. Without question Joe kill his object. But what if the object he is about to kill is himself (Bruce Willis) from the future? Will he kill 'himself'?
It is best for you to just know a little about the story, since if I tell you more, it will ruin your pleasure. No need to think hard about the paradox, just enjoy the story. It is more than just time travel, it is about consequences of actions, changes in heart, love of a mother to a child (and vice versa) and moral ambiguities. From the first scene you will be hooked until the end and the music is so damn good it will make you breathless, waiting for the end to come.
I think Rian Johnson can add more complexity to the story and still got people's attention. Levitt is good in impersonating Willis's mannerism, although his face looked like as if he got a botox and nose job too good to be true. Bruce Willis looks more menacing here than in The Expendables 2 and I like it when he hold a machine gun, it feels like Die Hard again.
The action is decent and not too much, which is make sense since the budget is only US$30 million. So not enough money to blow up cars or bridges. The strength lies in the music and a well thought story which makes this film one of this year's best.
Starring: Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt
Running Time: 118 min
“Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been.”
If you had a chance to kill Hitler when he was a baby, would you do it? The paradox and consequences are confusing and it can make a discussion worthy of several days time with so many pizza boxes lying around.
Looper is this year's Inception (which happened to be starred by Joseph Gordon-Levitt too) and Source Code, a sci-fi that relies heavily on the story, not on the flashy gimmick of time travel. It is also not so hard to understood, however you will always find people scratching their head and asking for explanation.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Joe, a Looper who lives in the year of 2042 where the future is not so different than our time. The visual of the film reminds you of Blade Runner (1982) and Star Trek (2009), the future is not as flashy as Windows 8 or Apple based operating system but a dystopic gritty neo-noir one.
As a Looper his job is to kill people being sent from the future (is there any grammar nazi left in the future?) who suddenly pop out in a cane field. Without question Joe kill his object. But what if the object he is about to kill is himself (Bruce Willis) from the future? Will he kill 'himself'?
It is best for you to just know a little about the story, since if I tell you more, it will ruin your pleasure. No need to think hard about the paradox, just enjoy the story. It is more than just time travel, it is about consequences of actions, changes in heart, love of a mother to a child (and vice versa) and moral ambiguities. From the first scene you will be hooked until the end and the music is so damn good it will make you breathless, waiting for the end to come.
I think Rian Johnson can add more complexity to the story and still got people's attention. Levitt is good in impersonating Willis's mannerism, although his face looked like as if he got a botox and nose job too good to be true. Bruce Willis looks more menacing here than in The Expendables 2 and I like it when he hold a machine gun, it feels like Die Hard again.
The action is decent and not too much, which is make sense since the budget is only US$30 million. So not enough money to blow up cars or bridges. The strength lies in the music and a well thought story which makes this film one of this year's best.
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