Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]Last year really kind of helped bring the faith back to me in the future of the movie industry! I mean there was so many good ones out there, 'The Dark Knight Rises', being one of them as well as, 'Safe' being another one as well!
And for the first time in years I had really become excited about going to the theater again (I hadn't really spent that much time at the theater for the last few years, since most of the movies that I had seen in theaters were pretty awful and not worth the prices!)
Unfortunately though there was a series of movies that I had missed out on going to see in the movie theater last year, and one of them was Looper (2012)!
Written & Directed by: Rian Johnson (Brick). Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises), Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element), Emily Blunt (The Adjustment Bureau), Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine), Jeff Daniels (Speed), Pierce Gangnon (The Crazies), Qing Xu (The Founding Of A Republic) & Garrett Dillahunt (The Last House On The Left).
I was glad that I could say that I had seen this movie though recently on demand though...
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You might want to start making some changes to your life if you find yourself being held at gun point by yourself![/caption]You see Rian Johnson did a great job in setting up a world where your lead character (played as younger man by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and as an older man by Bruce Willis), who is a low life who works for the mob of the future (literally) as a hit man who kills people sent back from the future to his time, and what would happen if his final mark was... Himself!
I also liked the duality of forces between his younger version, who wanted to live his mostly isolated semi self involved life, and his older self who at this point is willing to do what ever it takes to destroy the man that destroyed the happy existence that he had waited all his life to achieve!
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Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as he waits to kill his next, 'mark'![/caption]The next thing that I have to say that I also really liked is the personal (albeit unintentional) life changing that the main character (Joe) goes through, as he not only tries to get his life back, but also tries to protect a single mother and her child from... Well basically himself!
In the end, this movie is a surprisingly great time, and reminded me of how much I enjoyed Sci-Fi/Action movies of the 1990s... And if you give it a try, you might as well!
http://youtu.be/eI3ju17W070
