Looper Aage Maut Peeeche Maut

Story: Time travel is invented in the future but is soon made illegal. Misusing this system however, are mob bosses, who send their victims into the past to be shot by ‘loopers’, so that their very existence is wiped out. Trouble starts when a looper’s own future self is sent into the past to be killed…

Movie Review: The film, set in the year 2044, opens with a bang (quite literally) where Joe (Gordon-Levitt with a considerable amount of makeup) shoots a victim sent back from the year 2074, with a blunderbuss in an empty field, collects the payment for his job — silver bars strapped to the bound and blindfolded victim’s back — and proceeds to party it up with his pals. This is a pattern that he keeps repeating day after day. A bachelor with a penchant for fine living, things go pretty smoothly for Joe. He shares his plans for early retirement in France with his stripper girlfriend Suzie (Piper Perabo), with the life of a paid assassin well behind him. Life is somewhat peachy, until a fellow looper Seth (Paul Dano) who failed to carry out his mission (an immediate death sentence for a looper) arrives at Joe’s apartment, begging for safe haven.

What follows is a cascade of events, with not a wasted second. This is a future where some humans have evolved enough to have telekinesis (or ‘TK’ as it’s called in the movie) and events lead Joe to meet Sara (Emily Blunt), a tough country gal who knows her way around a shotgun. Joe’s older self (Bruce Willis) plays the tough guy very convincingly. Indeed, all the performances are very good.

There are science fiction films that deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists. Notwithstanding the flash and slick visuals, director Rian Johnson always keeps the storyline to the fore. Events are explained in a fairly simple manner as the plot smoothly unfolds. The film will leave you satisfied and entertained after one watch. And there’s a pretty good chance you’d want to watch it again.