![]() Equally, Paul Dano gives a wonderful, trademark sniveling wretch performance that is all too brief. Emily Blunt (Sara) and Jeff Daniels ably provide support, the former, sadly, barely stretched and the latter, as Abe, the loopers' boss, clearly enjoying himself. As for Willis, it's good to see him earning his fee again in a film worthy of his presence rather than phoning it in for a fat wad in the truly awful The Expendables 2. He's matured as an actor and, though he's been stamping around Hollywood for a good couple of decades, it's the last five years or so that have really seen him ascend the ranks and there's no sign of his climb slowing with both Spielberg's Lincoln and Don Jon's Addiction (which he also wrote and directed) in the can and Premium Rush earning plaudits on both sides of the Atlantic. I'm not sure that I buy Gordon-Levitt as a young Willis but the transition is simple and effectively executed and it needn't stand in the way of a couple of hours of great entertainment. No, it's not as intelligent a film as Inception, but it kicks the ass of Wanted and Gordon-Levitt is potentially a bigger star in the making than either Leonardo DiCaprio or James McAvoy. With that frame of mind employed, it's a superb film. There's only one way to watch Looper: suspend all disbelief, put your logic in stasis and get on with enjoying the romp. It's not a major problem in terms of enjoyment but it does cast a shadow over everything if minor errors are not avoided. I'm sure you can work out from the subject matter that there are occasional murders so I'm giving nothing away by stating that a particular murder in 2027 cuts against the rules. Along with the quirks, possibilities and matters left to interpretation, there are one or two clear boo-boos that cut against the rules writer/director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) has set himself. Don't think any more or you'll confound yourself with your wondering and wandering along all the possible flows and tributaries that lead from them. ![]() Except when looper Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) stares down the barrel at a version of himself that is thirty years older, Old Joe (Bruce Willis) outsmarts him and so begins a cat and mouse chase where there are multiples of each species and most of them aren't called Joe. However, when a looper's contract is up, they find themselves blowing the brains out of their older self. However mobs and Mafiosi types are prevalent and have ingeniously devised a solution: tie your victim up and send him back in time to a location where a looper will be waiting to blow his/her brains out. You don't need to be Einstein to enjoy Looper, as some of the audience proved In 2072, time travel is both possible and illegal and murder is more easily solved because corpses are harder to lose. Don't see it alone you'll need a friend around to discuss it on the journey home. But there are some pretty substantial issues with Looper that cause questions to be asked and lead to more than a couple of possible explanations as to what exactly is going on. ![]() Alas, to avoid dishing out hugely unpopular plot spoilers I need to skirt around the concerns, so you'll just have to come round with cake and we can discuss it in private. If X occurred, surely Y would happen, which means X wouldn't happen after all And so it is with Looper. The theme recurs throughout that Batman is more than a man, it's a symbol, it makes sense to end the story with a person other than Bruce Wayne donning the mask.Time travel films open up all manner of questions because of the paradoxes every action and reaction produce. ![]() "It actually makes a really good ending to his trilogy. In addition, Gordon-Levitt feels Christopher Nolan's ending in "The Dark Knight Rises" doesn't really need to be approached again. "As far as I know, that was always going to be the conclusion of Nolan's Batman movies," he said during a 2020 AMA. ![]() Gordon-Levitt, 40, is preparing to star as Jiminy Cricket in Disney's 2022 live-action adaptation of " Pinocchio." Some of his latest work includes the role of Richard Schultz in Netflix's "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and a cameo in 2019's "Knives Out." The actor has previously said he'd be open to playing Robin again someday (via Jake's Takes), he just doesn't see it ever actually coming to fruition. "But if I were to do a movie like that, I'd only want to do it if it were going to be awesome, and honestly, I think the odds of that happening would be pretty slim." "As with every project for me, it would depend on the script and the director," Gordon-Levitt explained. ![]()
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