So, first and foremost, as always I enjoyed the hell out of Joseph-Gordon Levitt - he's on such an amazing streak right now. They make-up job they do on him to make him more like Bruce Willis is pretty impressive for the most part. The film is pretty fun - for those unaware it's about a future where time travel was invented and then made illegal, and crime syndicates use it as a way to get rid of people by having a "looper" on the other end kill them and dispose of the body. Sound complicated? It is. In fact, it's complications like this that, ultimately, keep the film from really working for me. I enjoyed it a lot. Emily Blunt was enjoyable as well, and the kid in it was goddamn phenomenal - what a discover he was! There's so many fun and inventive sequences and it's entertaining and worth checking out. If I ever get around to watching it again I'll get into all the nit-picky stuff that really nagged at me, but I'll let it go and not ruin anything for you fine folks.
If you're curious, at all, as to the nature of my nit-picky, it has, mostly, to do with just the complete brushing aside of even trying to explain why and how the time travel works - it just feels a tad lazy - like an amazing concept was had and to avoid having to make it logical they just decided to avoid explanation. Bitch, moan, just enjoy the film already, right?
It's being billed as a thinking man's action film, and I'll give it that, just don't think on it too hard or it might start falling apart on you.
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