Looper

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, et al.

Product Description

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: March 2002
• Director: Rian Johnson
• Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Here we go, loopty loo.

Here we go, loopty loo. Here we go loopty li. Here we go, loopty loo. All on a Saturday night All on a Saturday night All on a Saturday night In the year 2042, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has a unique profession as a “Looper”; he dispatches people from the future for the mob. After thirty years on the job, a Looper is retired by being sent back 30 years in time to himself to be dispatched. Older Joe (Bruce Willis) is fine with this until an inappropriate shot dispatches the love of his life. So now he must go back and correct the system by removing the person who made this shot possible. Will he succeed, yes or no? In either case, what will be the outcome? Will younger Joe cow down to his wishes or learn something from this experience? We watch this presentation and wonder what we would do if we were either Joe. We too must make decisions in life, and this movie may help us or not in making those decisions. In any case, it’s worth watching this movie at least a couple of times. The story is really about relationships and choices. It is not a sci-fi story about time travel. The time thing is just one dimension to help show the outcome of the choices we make. The presentation, even though it has lots of action, does not contain a lot of gratuitous gore. It also does not rely on a lot of CGI. There may be a tad too much background music, but not enough to distract from the presentation. There is a big logic flaw. I cannot go into detail without placing a spoiler. But the trigger that created the antagonist could not have happened the first time around in the loop. You did not let this distract you from the purpose of the movie. If you’re watching the streaming version, then you’re going to miss the voiceover commentaries, which in this case are just as good as the original presentation and give you an insight as to what they were trying to accomplish. Naturally, I saw this in Blu-ray, which is now an old hat and does not change the story at all, but does add to the viewing experience.