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James Mottram of ''[[Total Film]]'' gave ''Looper'' 5 stars out of 5, concluding that it was "[t]he best sci-fi movie since ''[[Moon (film)|Moon]]''. The best time-travel yarn since ''[[12 Monkeys]]''. And one of the best films of 2012."<ref>{{cite web|last=Mottram|first=James|title=Looper review|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/looper|publisher=Total Film|accessdate=October 4, 2012|date=September 6, 2012}}</ref> Todd McCarthy of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' gave the film a positive review, calling it "an engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel sci-fi thriller", but also criticizing the effects involved in making Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis: "At first, the effect is a bit odd, and you can't quite put your finger on what's off; then it feels downright weird to be looking at a version of Gordon-Levitt who is no longer the actor you've known for a few years now."<ref>{{cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|title=Looper: Toronto Review|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com//review/looper-movie-review-joseph-gordon-levitt-bruce-willis-368330|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=October 4, 2012|date=September 6, 2012}}</ref> Peter Debruge of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' also gave the film a positive review, writing that writer-director Johnson's "grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the back seat and lets the multidimensional characters drive. In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man's thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff."<ref>{{cite web|last=Debruge|first=Peter|title=Looper|url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117948218|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|accessdate=October 4, 2012|date=September 6, 2012}}</ref>
James Mottram of ''[[Total Film]]'' gave ''Looper'' 5 stars out of 5, concluding that it was "the best sci-fi movie since ''[[Moon (film)|Moon]]". The best time-travel yarn since ''[[12 Monkeys]]''. And one of the best films of 2012."<ref>{{cite web|last=Mottram|first=James|title=Looper review|url=http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/looper|publisher=Total Film|accessdate=October 4, 2012|date=September 6, 2012}}</ref> Todd McCarthy of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' gave the film a positive review, calling it "an engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel sci-fi thriller", but also criticizing the effects involved in making Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis: "At first, the effect is a bit odd, and you can't quite put your finger on what's off; then it feels downright weird to be looking at a version of Gordon-Levitt who is no longer the actor you've known for a few years now."<ref>{{cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Todd|title=Looper: Toronto Review|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com//review/looper-movie-review-joseph-gordon-levitt-bruce-willis-368330|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=October 4, 2012|date=September 6, 2012}}</ref> Peter Debruge of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' also gave the film a positive review, writing that writer-director Johnson's "grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the back seat and lets the multidimensional characters drive. In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man's thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff."<ref>{{cite web|last=Debruge|first=Peter|title=Looper|url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117948218|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|accessdate=October 4, 2012|date=September 6, 2012}}</ref>


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Looper
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRian Johnson
Written byRian Johnson
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySteve Yedlin
Edited byBob Ducsay
Music byNathan Johnson
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • September 6, 2012 (2012-09-06) (TIFF)
  • September 28, 2012 (2012-09-28) (United States)
Running time
118 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[2]
Box office$166,521,158[3]

Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. In Looper, time travel is invented by the year 2074 and, though immediately outlawed, is used by criminal organizations to send those they want killed into the past where they are killed by "loopers", assassins paid with silver bars strapped to their targets. Joe, a looper, encounters himself when his older self is sent back in time to be killed.

Looper was selected as the opening film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released to positive reviews in Australia on September 27, 2012,[4] and in the US and the UK on September 28, 2012 by TriStar Pictures and Alliance Films.[5][6]

Plot

In the futuristic gangland of year 2044, 25-year-old Joseph Simmons (Gordon-Levitt), works for a mafia company in Kansas City as a "looper". Loopers kill and dispose of agents sent back in time by their employers from corporate headquarters in Shanghai from the year 2074. Loopers are foot soldiers, paid with silver on the condition that all targets must never escape. When crime bosses want to end a looper's contract, they send the older version of a looper back to be killed by his younger self and pay with gold, referred to as "closing the loop". Joe's boss, Abe (Daniels), was sent back in time to manage the loopers and also owns a club where Joe frequents and spends time with Suzie (Perabo), a showgirl.

One night, Seth (Dano), Joe's friend and a fellow looper, visits him in a panic. While attempting to close his own loop, Seth's future self (Brennan) foretold of a mysterious character called the Rainmaker who overran the future crime bosses and was cancelling all of the looper's contracts. Seth, shaken upon recognizing his older self and hearing of the Rainmaker, couldn't close his own loop. Joe hides Seth in his safe and visits Abe, who tells Joe he can either give up half of the silver he has saved as a looper or give up Seth. Joe eventually tells Abe where he hid Seth, and is wracked with guilt over betraying his friend. Seth is tortured via permanent mutilation to lure his future self to the gangsters, who kill the future Seth and leave the present Seth alive, though now a heavily disfigured quadruple amputee, ensuring he will be alive in 30 years to be sent back in time and killed.

When Joe is sent to close a loop, he hesitates when he recognizes himself (Willis). When Old Joe manages to escape, Young Joe cuts a message into his arm to get Old Joe to visit him at a diner. As they have breakfast, Old Joe explains that when the Rainmaker sent his or her men to send Joe back, they killed his wife (Xu). He killed his captors and sent himself back in order to kill the child who becomes the Rainmaker. Young Joe still plans on killing his older self to fulfill his contract and escape the mafia. However, they’re both forced to flee when they are attacked by Abe's men led by Kid Blue (Segan), but not before Young Joe tears a part of a map out of Old Joe's pocket with coordinates and ten digits.

Young Joe follows the coordinates to a farm house owned by Sara (Blunt), who lives with her son Cid (Gagnon). When Joe shows Sara the map, Sara recognizes the ten digits as Cid's birthday and the serial number of the hospital he was born in, prompting Joe to explain the situation about the Rainmaker. However, when the database shows two other children born on that date and in that hospital, Old Joe decides to systematically kill all three children. After killing the first of the three, he changes his mind on the second when he sees it is Suzie's daughter.

As Young Joe and Sara become close, he learns that she is a telekinetic, and that Cid was raised by Sara's sister for most of his life until she was killed, and Cid doesn’t believe that Sara is his real mother. One morning, they are attacked by Jesse (Dillahunt), who is killed when Cid falls down the stairs and lets out a telekinetic blast. His extraordinary telekinetic powers – which are far more powerful than most telekinetics - cause Joe to realize that Cid is the Rainmaker. At that moment, Old Joe makes a second attempt to kill Suzie's daughter, but receives the new memories of Young Joe that Cid is the right child, before being taken by Kid Blue.

Young Joe tells Sara and Cid to drive away while Old Joe is taken to Abe. When Old Joe breaks free, he kills everyone except Kid Blue. As the two Joes confront each other near Sara's house, Kid Blue attacks and is killed by Young Joe. Old Joe then blocks Sara and Cid from driving away and when they try to escape into the cane fields, Old Joe shoots Cid in the jaw without killing him, prompting Cid to let out another telekinetic blast. Before Cid can kill Old Joe, Sara calms him down and gets him to accept her as his mother. Old Joe tries to kill Cid again, but Sara stands between them. Young Joe realizes that Sara's death at Old Joe's hands will lead to Cid becoming the Rainmaker, thus creating a closed time loop. He decides to kill himself to erase Old Joe from existence, save Sara and prevent the Rainmaker from rising. In the aftermath, Sara finds Young Joe's silver in the van Old Joe drove.

Cast

Production

Rian Johnson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaking at WonderCon 2012 in promotion of Looper.

Looper was written and directed by Rian Johnson. After Johnson released The Brothers Bloom in 2008, he re-teamed with producer Ram Bergman, who produced Johnson's previous two films, with the goal of starting production of Looper in 2009.[7] In May 2010, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was cast in one of the lead roles, which he would play after completing Premium Rush.[8] Later in the month, Bruce Willis was also cast.[9] In the following October, Emily Blunt joined Gordon-Levitt and Willis.[10] Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels, and Piper Perabo were cast in January 2011.[11]

Filming began in Louisiana on January 24, 2011.[12]

Makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji created the prosthetics that Gordon-Levitt wore in the film so that he would physically resemble Willis.[13]

The film's score was composed by Nathan Johnson, Rian Johnson's cousin.[14]

Talking about Looper and time travel in film, Rian Johnson said:

Even though it's a time-travel movie, the pleasure of it doesn't come from the mass of time travel. It's not a film like Primer, for instance, where the big part of the enjoyment is kind of working out all the intricacies of it. For Looper, I very much wanted it to be a more character-based movie that is more about how these characters dealt with the situation time travel has brought about. So the biggest challenge was figuring out how to not spend the whole movie explaining the rules and figure out how to put it out there in a way that made sense on some intuitive level for the audience; then get past it and deal with the real meat of the story.[14]

Release

Looper premiered on September 6, 2012 at the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival.[15] The film was then released theatrically in the United States on September 28, 2012.[16] The film's studio Endgame Entertainment negotiated a deal with FilmDistrict at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2011, for FilmDistrict to release the film in the United States through TriStar Pictures.[17]

The Chinese release of the film reintegrates a substantial number of scenes set in Shanghai that were edited out due to pacing reasons. The move was requested by Chinese production company DMG Entertainment in order to further appeal to Chinese audiences.[18]

Johnson released a free audio commentary on SoundCloud to be downloaded and listened to during the film, with the warning: "Needless to say, this is NOT to be listened to on a first viewing, or before you've seen the film."[19]

Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on December 31, 2012.[20][21] The film will also be released on January 28, 2013 in online UK stores and a general release on February 4, 2013.[22] The US iTunes store released the film on December 21, 2012 to own in HD and SD forms as part of an early release deal it has on certain films.

Reception

Critical response

Looper holds a 94% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 231 reviews and an average score of 8.1/10, with the reported consensus: "As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action."[23] On Metacritic, the film holds an 84/100 average rating based on 44 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[24]

Barbara Fowler wrote: " Looper can be viewed as the story of a moral journey out of depravity. Joe starts out at the lowest point possible - a ruthless murderer, ready to kill people he does not know for monetary gain; "taking his silver" after each killing evokes Judas Iscariot's thirty pieces of silver. When first offered a chance to morally redeem himself he fails, betraying his friend rather than part with his ill-gotten silver. (…) In the life which he originally lived and which led to his becoming "the old self" in the film, loving Xu and being loved by her had been a purifying experience in an otherwise "dirty" life – but when Xu is killed, Joe regards the end of bringing her back to life as justifying the means of killing innocent children. His younger self, finding love at an earlier age, takes at the film's climatic moment the ultimate choice of sacrificing himself in order to save both his beloved and her child, thus finally atoning for his murderous career and achieving redemption"[25].

Toronto International Film Festival

James Mottram of Total Film gave Looper 5 stars out of 5, concluding that it was "the best sci-fi movie since Moon". The best time-travel yarn since 12 Monkeys. And one of the best films of 2012."[26] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it "an engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel sci-fi thriller", but also criticizing the effects involved in making Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis: "At first, the effect is a bit odd, and you can't quite put your finger on what's off; then it feels downright weird to be looking at a version of Gordon-Levitt who is no longer the actor you've known for a few years now."[27] Peter Debruge of Variety also gave the film a positive review, writing that writer-director Johnson's "grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the back seat and lets the multidimensional characters drive. In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man's thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff."[28]

General release

Kim Newman of Empire magazine gave Looper 5 stars out of 5, writing, "Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species—too much physics and there's a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex. Looper isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart."[29] Noel Murray of The A.V. Club gave the film an A− grade, writing, "Looper is a remarkable feat of imagination and execution, entertaining from start to finish, even as it asks the audience to contemplate how and why humanity keeps making the same rotten mistakes."[30] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing, "Looper is way inventive but it wears its creativity lightly, like it's no big deal. This is a highflying, super-stylish science-fiction thriller that brings a fresh approach to mind-bending genre material. We're not always sure where this time-travel film is going, but we wouldn't dream of abandoning the ride."[31]

Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing, "Looper's heady blend of time travel, gritty action and a jot of romance is such a thrilling and cerebral mind-bender that it will likely have moviegoers gathering outside the theater afterward to hash out details of its intricately constructed universe. Not that that's a bad thing."[32] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising the performances of Willis and Gordon-Levitt and concluding, "Lacing tremendously exciting action with touching gravity, Looper hits you like a shot in the heart."[33] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising its screenplay and writing, "Looper, a smart and tricky sci-fi story, sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them. Most time travel movies run into trouble in the final scenes, when impossibilities pile up one upon another. This film leads to a startling conclusion that wipes out the story's paradoxes so neatly it's as if it never happened."[34]

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+ grade, writing, "The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks (some of which, of course, also involved Gordon-Levitt straddling multiple time zones at once). But it's the glimpses of Children of Men-like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight".[35] Richard Corliss of Time magazine gave the film a positive review, calling Looper a "hybrid, mashing Quentin Tarantino and Philip K. Dick into a species of pulp science fiction" and also writing, "A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism, Looper is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there."[36] Dana Stevens of Slate gave the film a mixed review, writing, "Looper felt to me like a maddening near-miss: It posits an impossible but fascinating-to-imagine relationship—a face-to-face encounter between one's present and future self, in which each self must account for its betrayal of the other—and then throws away nearly all the dramatic potential that relationship offers."[37]

Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave the film a B+ grade on average.[38]

Awards and nominations

Award Nominees Result
National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay[39] Rian Johnson Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay[40] Rian Johnson Won
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay[41] Rian Johnson Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Actress in an Action Movie Emily Blunt Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Actor in an Action Movie Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Action Film Nominated
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Won[42]
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay Rian Johnson Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay[43] Rian Johnson Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Emily Blunt Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Pending
Houston Film Critics Society Original Screenplay[44] Rian Johnson Nominated
Austin Film Critics Association Original Screenplay[45] Rian Johnson Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Original Screenplay[46] Rian Johnson Won
Online Film Critics Society Original Screenplay[47] Rian Johnson Pending
Utah Film Critics Association Original Screenplay Rian Johnson Nominated

Top ten lists

The film was included in the following top ten lists for the best films of 2012:

Publication Rank
James Berardinelli 1[48]
MTV 3[49]
The Skinny 4[50]
New York Post 8[51]
Total Film 9[52]
The Huffington Post 10[53]
The Atlantic Wire N/A[54]

Further reading

  • "Payback Time" by Iain Stasukevich, American Cinematographer magazine Vol. 93, No. 10; October 2012, ISSN 0002-7928, Hollywood, California; pages 64–70, 72-75. Behind-the-scenes article focusing on the film's camera work, lighting, etc. 11 pages, 20 photos.

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