I was lucky enough to get to a preview screening of Looper a full five days before its UK and USA release and boy was it worth
getting in early. Looper is a smart
and twisting Science Fiction thriller which plays with the ideas and rules of
time travel to create a tense film which leads you down unexpected alleys,
confounding your ideas and expectations.
It’s 2042 and in thirty years time travel will be invented.
Although immediately outlawed the machines are used by the mob to send people
back in time for execution thus destroying all evidence of murder. The people
who carry out the killing are called Loopers. One of these Loopers is Joe
(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who conducts his job with the utmost professionalism despite
a few personal issues. One day though to his shock, he looks up at the tarpaulin
ready for the arrival of his next victim when the man who appears in front of
him is the older version of himself (Bruce Willis).
