Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Film Review! Looper

The whole "Looper" idea is very good. Send a guy into the past to get killed without a trace. Well, it seemed
from the trailer that this was going to be a Joseph Gordon-Levitt vs. Bruce Willis film, but it was far more
than that. It quickly (well, not so quickly) becomes about a little boy who will one day become some kind of
mad world dictator. Two things bother me about the story. First, what guarantees that the killer in the present
wont just take the money and not kill the guy? (The whole Jeff Daniels group makes no sense at all. If he
could come back to the past to "supervise", why not just send back loyal killers with him instead of he having
to recruit new ones? Plus if he is from the future, wouldn't he be rich and powerful with all the knowledge he
brings with him?) Second, they seem to randomly throw in this idea of having ten percent of the population
be born with a stupid limited telekinesis power. I suppose it is to explain the boys power but it was pulled
out of someones butt. The film is stolen by the little boy 'Cid' by the way. He out acts Willis and Gordon-Levitt, and that is not easy to do.
FINAL FILE: See it...with an open mind.


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