Director: Rian Johnson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels
Looper movie hits theaters on September 28, 2012.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is really making a name for himself in widely released mindfucks. When he employed that paradox in Inception, director Rian Johnson must have just lost his shit. It does look like a good film in its own right, with JGL playing a futuristic assassin who kills people in the past. That is, until he is tasked with killing himself. While it is an intriguing idea, the amount of paradoxes in this film would have to be staggering. If they’re taking people into the past when time travel hasn’t been invented yet, won’t people in the past figure out soon enough? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of the whole system? In addition, are the targets being killed in the past or sent into the past to be killed? The latter would not create paradoxes, but the former would create a multitude of problems. Oh, old Joseph Gordon-Levitt is played by Bruce Willis, because that’s obviously where he’s going.
