Looper

"Hunted by your future, haunted by your past."

2012 1h 58m EN

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6.9

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★6.9TMDB · 11,258

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Synopsis

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In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

“Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.”

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Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joe
Bruce Willis
Old Joe
Emily Blunt
Sara
Paul Dano
Seth
Noah Segan
Kid Blue
Piper Perabo
Suzie
Jeff Daniels
Abe
Pierce Gagnon
Cid

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Rian Johnson
Writers: Rian Johnson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Rian Johnson, shot by Steve Yedlin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Nathan Johnson. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Bob Ducsay shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1276104 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

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11,258 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.

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The take

Rian Johnson directs. Steve Yedlin behind the camera. Nathan Johnson scores. Bob Ducsay cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 14 years ago.
2Directed by Rian Johnson, shot by Steve Yedlin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Nathan Johnson. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Bob Ducsay shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.".
7IMDB entry: tt1276104 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
811,258 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
9Classified under 16 themes, including "future", "suicide", "assassin", "dystopia".
10Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Steve Yedlin
Original score: Nathan Johnson
Editing: Bob Ducsay
Production design: Ed Verreaux
Costume design: Sharen Davis
Makeup / hair: Melizah Anguiano Wheat
VFX supervisor: Karen E. Goulekas
Stunt coordinator: Lex D. Geddings
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $47,042,000
Return: 157% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Looper (2012)

Awards

National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

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rookiebeotch2012-12-28
movie was a little slow and drawn out. action was ok but story was little weak.
Dark Jedi2013-03-24
★ 6/10
I am normally fairly hesitant concerning time-travel movies because it is next to impossible to get them right. They more or less always become very unrealistic and full of paradoxes. I would almost go as far as to say that producers making serious (non-comedy) time travel movies are the ones that are scientifically too stupid to realise that it is just going to be a mess, or they do not really care about the issues hoping that the audience also will not care. This movie is really proof of this. It is full of paradoxes and annoying “but if this happened now then that couldn’t have happened then and vice versa”. Maybe some people can force themselves overlooking these things but I have some difficulty doing so. I fully agree with the statement that one of the characters in the movie was making: “"This time travel crap, just fries your brain like an egg…". Anyway, trying to pierce through the cloud of time-travel issues and enjoy the movie, it is not a bad movie. Given that it really had no chance of succeeding in the science area, or have a plot which didn’t defy all logic (time travel you know) it does indeed make a valiant try to entertain. It is not one of Bruce Willies standard all-out action-filled roller-coasters. That is not to say that there is no action but there is also plenty of time for trying to actually tell the story in the movie. The movie is actually quite dark and melancholic. The future seems to be fairly dirty, run down and ridden with criminal organisations. As if time-travel itself wasn’t bad enough the story also involves 10% of the population having developed psychic powers. Most of them good for nothing except cheap show tricks like levitating small objects. Most of them…except our future crime lord which of course is found to have super-psychic powers. Also, of course, the kid had to behave like a spoiled brat with anger problems which was somewhat annoying. The ending, which I will not divulge here of course, was not very surprising and left quite a few open questions. On the whole I would say that the movie was entertaining but it is far from going on my top ten list.
Andres Gomez2013-08-21
★ 4/10
The plot is full of flaws. Quite like a even worse inception.