LOOPER

Looper is the new sci-fi, action film from Dir. Rian Johnson. Starring Bruce Willis & Joseph Gordon Levitt as old and young Joe, respectively. In Looper, time travel hasn't been invented yet. But 30 years in the future it will have been.  Controlled by the mob time travel is used to "get rid of" people.  So when they need somebody to "disappear" they send them to the past. To a predetermined place and time to a waiting Looper. Who promptly pulls the trigger on his trusty Blunder-buss, collects his payment (in the form of silver) from the back of his mark. Incenerates the body then goes on about his day.

Sounds pretty sweet right? Well wait for the catch. The only downside is the retirement plan. To earn your retirement you have to kill yourself. Your future self. The mob doesn't like loose ends. Therefore one day (no looper knows when) your silver payday will be a golden one. The gold represents your last job. Yourself.  This means you just earned your retirement.

The next thirty years doing whatever contents your heart. Until the day they come for you to send you back in time to be killed by your... (younger) self.

Now if that wasn't enough to fry your brain. Strap up b/c you're going to love the rest of this ride.  On top of the action, in addition to the thought provoking temporal storyline. This movie is deep.  Joseph Gordon Levitt is a man searching for something to live for; on top of trying to find himself.  Bruce Willis is a man fighting to save a woman he will never see again. Even though they play the same character, they are two eentirely different people. The beautiful duality of the story enters as each man is on his chosen path. They each become more like the other.

If I were going to pick a nit. l would say, it could of had more action. But it wasnt even needed. The Characters and the story are more than entertaining. [Side-note]: Once you get to the farm.... That little boy is off the hook!

Why should you go see Looper? Because hands down it is the best movie Ive seen yet in 2012! The moral of the story is also multifaceted.

Its never too late to change.