MOVIE REVIEW:
LOOPER
By:
G.P. MANALO
Starring:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Bruce Willis
Emily Blunt
Looper takes place in the year 2044
wherein Time travel isn’t invented yet until the next 30 years, but when it did.
Time travel became illegalized and almost everything people do are being
monitored. The concept of time travelling is being done when some organizations
want to kill someone they hire a guy from the past to kill it for them and that
is where our main Looper, Joe comes in. But when his future self appear right
before him and escapes. He finds himself in a whole mess of danger.
Looper is one of my anticipated movies of this year (next to
The Dark Knight Rises and Avengers) ever since i saw the trailer. But I didn’t
go all the way like “Oh this’ll be one of the best and original sci-fi movies
of the year” or something like that. The last time I said that was last year
and the movie is “In Time” and... That ended badly.
And I was wrong it wasn’t a failure at all, it was actually
a pretty good movie. The people i know in the community of cinephiles like me
are telling me that “the first trailer is all you need to watch” which I did
that the two other trailers are the things that i don’t have to watch because
they spoil way too much. Go in to this
movie without any knowledge at all, You’ll have a better experience watching
this movie. The movie was unpredictable at some point, there were points that I
didn’t know that it could go down in a road like that. The first trailer, the
way they describe the movie made this movie look like a basic Sci-fi action movie
but when you watch a film this film has layers upon layers of something beyond
just the time travel element of the film. The movie does feel original
throughout the movie, the very least feels like Terminator 1 and Source Code at
the same time with its own twist.
I have to say this is probably the best sci-fi action movies
since The Matrix (not the sequels). Especially in this day and age of
reboots/remakes this is an original and fresh sci-fi movie we have now. But I
have to warn you if you are expecting a badass action sci-fi film you might be
let down at some point because there was a large amount of down time here and
there but that’s just you. I was interested because the down time in the 2nd
act of the film is building up to something big and you don’t really know what’s
going to happen until it is revealed somehow. The writing is brilliant in this film, I do
love how these characters interact with each other, in fact it feels like a
Tarantino film at some point when you are hearing the dialogue, probably
because it does feel realistic that you can picture two guys saying this to
each other in a diner or a mob boss having a dialog with one of his men (Huh...
Starting to sound like Pulp Fiction now). The action in this movie at some point feels
intense (I’m a sucker for silence during action movies) especially that
climactic scene by the end. The special effects seemed real from a movie like
this the special effects feels very real to me. I mean the effects look like it
can be done by a movie with hundred million dollar movie but a 38 Million
dollar movie with these kind of special effects is impressive.
The performances in this movie are all great especially
coming from the guy who directed Brick (Brilliant film I highly suggest you
watch that film). First of all Bruce
Willis, Is one of the surprising performances in this movie. Lately Bruce
Willis does look he is only doing it for a paycheck (though i had to wonder did
he even know that he’s in an ambitious type of film and nothing like 12 Monkeys
or The Fifth Element?) But here it’s not
your typical John McClain performance he’s been doing for the past years (it
feels like his performances in 12 Monkeys though.). And we have Joseph Gordon-Levitt
(Who is having a good year by the way) pulling off a very good yet spot-on
impression of Bruce Willis, Which is kind of a thing nowadays for Time travel
movies there will always be actors who will have a spot on impression of an actor
who is either playing his/her past or future versions of themselves (like Josh
Brolin in Men in Black 3). His prosthetic
make-up really does make him look like Bruce Willis. Which in the trailers it
doesn’t really show that the make-up is trying to make him look like Bruce
Willis but when you do see this in-motion in the movie you notice there that he
does look like a young Bruce Willis. We also have Jeff Daniels as the main bad
guy in this movie was also good, I loved his dialog they wrote for him
throughout the film and lastly we have Emily Blunt which I can’t really go into
detail with because this one element about her plays a huge part in the movie.
So I can’t really go into detail
further. All i can say is that she is great especially the kid in this movie.
The kid is not a well known kid actor but probably after this movie he’ll soon
be famous because of his performance in this movie. He is one of the best child
actors especially coming from this movie.
In the end I loved Looper, definitely one of the best films of the year (maybe i could even put this up higher in my list of Top 10 Movies of the year). It’s fresh, Original, Intense, Well-Written, Directed, and Acted. It’s one of my favourite sci-fi films of all time and definitely one of my favourite films of all time. Rian Johnson once again made a masterpiece and I would love to see more films from the man.
MY RATING:
EPIC WIN! - 5/5
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