joewilliams-01809
It's been a year since I saw this once as a blind buy of buying Blu-Rays, As soon as I watched it, this film blew me away. The cast were amazing even the child actor did well in this film, Bruce Willis was fine while Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt did a fantastic job. The plot was interesting, even if a lot of it are plot holes, but the way it was executed was damn good. The score was meh, the action in this were alright but I don't really care about those just story alone was just creative and again executed well. The director, in Rian Johnson, did a fantastic job in directing this fun thrilling sci-fi film. The negatives outweighs it's negative and I recommend you yo watch this film.
Evan Wessman (CinematicInceptions)
This wasn't an especially smart or interesting or cool or scientific sci-fi movie, but I enjoyed it decently and liked how it stayed true to itself. Rian Johnson tried to make a good movie here, but he acknowledges that it isn't a superlative movie. I like that he didn't feel the need to make it appeal to audiences too much. There were things that I didn't like about it as I was watching it, but that I think made the movie better. I found that none of the characters were that likeable, but that wasn't such a bad thing because it allowed the dilemma of the plot to take precedence instead of telling us which character to side with. I also was glad that there was not that much money spent on production design and the like in an effort to make the movie look too futuristic. All the trucks in the movie were obviously just the same as the ones on the road today, which I thought was good because there are so many futuristic movies that spend so much time and effort on making futuristic stuff that really doesn't contribute to the story. The premise of the movie is really good both in terms of the style of time travel and the complications that it precipitates. I personally doubt that time travel will ever be possible, but I think that if it were to exist in the world it would indeed be outlawed and that the way it was used here would be a fairly believable way that people would try to use it. It was also interesting how the old Joe was able to have shades of memories that resulted from the stuff happening in Joe's present.Looking at it after the fact, I'm realizing that it is a very plot-driven movie, which I would normally expect to be a mark of a bad movie but that is not the case. The plot and its conclusion really give substance to the theme and characters in the movie. Throughout the movie, Joe is realizing that he is in way over his head and that his actions have a much larger impact now than they have to this point. At the end of the movie, he finally realizes that the situation he is in is bigger than just him and decides to "take one for the team" so to speak. There are certainly imperfections to it. You can poke holes in the time travel rules and such. There are points where it drags and a few things that annoyed me about it. But on the whole I find it to be pretty good. It definitely makes me more interested in seeing what a Rian Johnson Star Wars movie will turn out tomorrow. It probably won't top your lists, but I would definitely recommend watching it if you're at all a fan of sci-fi or time travel. Overall Rating: 7.7/10.
imdb-15773
The writer/director has had a reasonable and interesting concept but didn't have the writing or directorial skills to pull it off. This would have been so better given to someone actually with talent in those areas.Most of the negative reviews do correctly identify the downsides to this film, except the ridiculous one pulling is "misogyny" when it's non-existent. I'm not going to do a synopsis of the issues as others have correctly identified them.For me the summary is a film that passes time, has interesting concepts but was a wasted opportunity because of poor execution and writing.
Carlos André
The idea of this movie is incredible, also execution of it, in fact, everything with this film it's amazing.Starting with the concept, I never saw something like that in other media, maybe there is something like that, but unless, I didn't now any, so the movie improve even more.Some movies has amazing ideas, but fail on the execution. That's not the case here. The structure of it works since the beginning, when the editing is use to explain in a gradual way all the things that you need to know, while set some pieces that will be very useful in the future. Amazing script, amazing direction, amazing editing.The cast is terrific too. Joseph Gordon-Levitt simply destroys in the main role, I think I never had seeing him on a action role (or something like that) so it was a very good surprise for me. Bruce Willis is awesome too, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, you know, the cast is fantastic. Another performance that deserves to be honor is the little kid, Pierce Gagnon, who plays Cid. Every time that he spoke I was like "WOW", you know, there's no big deal about the role, but he is thinking to sound like a little genius guy, and it works very well! He had like 8 years at the time? Less? I don't know, but really impress me. Well, and this is another point to the directing of Rian Johnson, good performance of the whole cast, almost always has the "finger" of a good director.Maybe the only thing that someone can say about the movie is some "cliches" that it may fall into. Like, you know that "Blue Kid" will do some dumb thing and screw up in some point, you get very fast too that the kid is the rainmaker, but come on! It's fine, it's almost impossible do some kind of film, book or anything else without something like that, it's impossible be 100% unpredictable this days, and besides that, I was always thinking that I knew what is going too happening next, but I almost always was wrong.In short, Looper is a fantastic movie, I can't recommend you more too see it. And OMG I'm EVEN MORE EXCITED FOR THE LAST JEDI NOW! But seriously, I'm can't wait to see more of Rian Johnson's movies, this was my first one, and I'm already a fan.9,5/10
