Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

andylaode Here how I rate looper (from lowest 0 to highest 10)From acting: 8From writing and directing: 5From story logic: 2 (I don't want to give 1 because it will be too low) Total : (8+5+2)/3 = 5The acting is very good. Joe and Old Joe are very well played. Both BW and JGL are very good actor. The dialog and the acting are believable. Two thumbs for them.Writing and directing done by the same person. And it was a good directing and also good writing. The dialogs are strong, the acting is strong, but the character development is not very good. We watch no major development either in BW or JGL. And think about it, how can younger version seems to have different character with older version? Maybe 30 years of difference will change people character. Maybe.The major fallback was in the story logic. The story line is okay but how to get there is confusing.Now let's talk about story logic. In this story, nobody explains the logic of the time travel. If somebody send back to the past what will happen to his experienceLet me put this wayEvery killing should be private right? The organization in the future send future body to be executed in the past. The executioner just shoots the body, kills him/her, then burn the body, claim the silver/gold along the way. Job done. Right?Now let me ask you a question. How can people at the same time with the executioner can tell whether or not the executioner has kills his target? How can Abe (Jeff Daniels) knows when Seth (Paul Dano) unable to close his own loop? Close loop is a term define in this movie as an action done by crime bosses who eventually need to end a looper's contract, and also eliminate any traces of their working relationship, so they send his older version back to be killed by his younger self, referred to as "closing the loop", which each looper must do himself. They're paid in gold for this, to live the rest of their lives in comfort.The question still remain, how can Abe, that was sent back in time to manage the loopers, can quickly knows whether a looper has able to kills his target? It doesn't make sense. The movie never explains this at all Let me put again another case which is also unexplained. Let say person A is a looper that execute people, his timeline is T1, up to "present day" in the story. The older self, in the future experienced his timeline as T1+T1' (the original T1 is come from person A up to the "present day" in the story, then another T1' is come from person A from "present day" up to "future day" in the story). Let say, crime boss sends back the person A from "future day" to "present day" to be executed by his younger self.The "present day" A only experience T1 in his life time, and in the other hand, the older A "already" experience T1 and also additional T1'.If older A still have complete arm, and then suddenly A cut his arm in front of older A, logically it will not affect older A. Older A originally never experienced arm cut off, right? He is sent back through time with complete arm and just witness that his younger self cut his own arm. But the thing is, inside this story, once A doing something, it will immediately appear on older A. it doesn't make sense since older A is already there without experiencing what A is about to experience. If the writer wants to convince the audience that this is how the "story world" works, then the writer need to lay down foundation first.The logic is never explained. Of course, it will be difficult to explain since time machine is a complex concept and story with such a complex concept must have strong fundamental theory in it. I mean the writer need to lay out the "physics" of the "story world" first so we can take anything even as absurd as human can fly. The writer need to lay out some fundamental first before the audience can be happy to accept it.Since the logic was never explained that is why the writer can kills the "present day" A so that the "future day" A will be vanished in the thin air

jas-mostwanted I have to say this, i am Impressed. Usually time travel movies end up messing its own logic and become very predictable and the pay off usually is not that good. But i loved this one, it gave me a clever climax, a rich character development, a perfect emotional-Action-Sci-fi movie. It gave me all the flavors i desire in a movie and that also in a good time span. Just go for it, Rian Johnson at his best.

Aadam (aadamhgafar-68237) Looper drew me in with its interesting premise; a hired gun (Joe) who assassinates targets for a criminal mob from 30 years into the future until he comes face to face with himself. It was a unique idea and the concept of 'modern-Joe vs. future Joe' translated to film really well for the first half of the movie but at around the half-way point the barebones explanation of the details of time-travel, paradoxes and alternate timelines is waved away with a succinct "I don't want to talk about time travel shit." (yes, an actual line in a movie about time-travel) as the plot became more complex. This was a disappointment in a movie who's main draw (for me) was its potential for thought-provoking questions on its sci-fi premise, what I got instead was a more character-driven plotline within a looser framework of sci-fi concepts which, while enjoyable, still left me somewhat let down. The de-emphasis of time-travel and the minutia of its consequences contradict the grounded tone of the rest of the movie, a focus is placed on the feelings of human beings, and the world seems feasible but the hand-wavey fashion that the film deals with the core idea of time-travel (which is vital to the plot) ruined the immersion for me. It demands a suspension of disbelief so great that it softens the emotional impact of the performance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who is the star of the show), and the supporting cast of Emily Blunt and Pierce Gagnon (who are central to the plot) The characters are the main focus of the story but even this isn't perfectly executed, Bruce Willis' character, while competently acted, is mostly just used to further to plot and shoot things which did not make for a compelling watch.The movie suffers for its deviation from the initial premise and its confusing venture into a low-effort and ill-conceived dip into vague, supernatural thriller territory on the biological super-evolution of humans (which is about as unexpected and awkwardly introduced as it sounds) and the claims of movie's cleverness are only half true, while on the one hand it presents the motivations, desires and emotions of its characters with some skill and humanity but on the other a surprisingly low-effort attempt is made in fleshing out the mechanics behind the time-travel which I believe to be a major misstep on the writer-director's part, holding back what could have been a truly great, original movie.

DrDarkness So the movie starts off with fairly interesting plot and messing around with time. When I was about 1/4 in, I was hooked and watching the film with a smile on my face, thinking "Oh yeah, this is nice! And Bruce Willis, too! This might be a movie I'd want to see again."But then, when the movie ends, my thoughts weren't anywhere near like they were in the beginning. More of "Wtf, why should I care, okay what then?". This felt like I had watched two movies - one starting off nicely and the other one ending like the writer didn't care either way if he could finish the movie or not.So... no. Would not watch this again. This movie left me feeling ripped off, cheated from a good ending and lured in with half-assed plot.