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Looper (2012)

R  |   |  Action, Crime, Sci-Fi  |  28 September 2012 (USA)
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In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

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Old Joe's Wife (as Summer Qing)
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Beatrix
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Gat Man
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Storyline

In the year 2044, a man working for a group of killers called "Loopers" (they work for the mob and kill people who are sent blindfolded back in time from the year 2074 by their bosses) recognizes a victim as himself. He hesitates resulting in the escape of his older self. Written by malachmcfreak

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Hunted by your future. Haunted by your past. See more »


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Rated R for strong violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and drug content | See all certifications »

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28 September 2012 (USA)  »

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Looper: Asesinos del futuro  »

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Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$20,801,552 (USA) (28 September 2012)

Gross:

$66,468,315 (USA) (28 December 2012)
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The farmhouse of Sara and Cid is the Hess farmhouse from Signs (2002). That picture was directed by M. Night Shyamalan who had earlier directed Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense (1999) and Unbreakable (2000). See more »

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When Sarah is doing multiplication tables with Cid, the first tile we see him place (56) moves repeatedly between shots - it's correctly on 7x8 from his point of view, but the tile is on 7x9 when we move to her point of view. The next tile (32), which he supposedly places on 8x3, is actually placed on 7x8, adjacent to the incorrectly-placed first tile from Sarah's point of view. See more »

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[first lines]
Joe: Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by only the largest criminal organizations. It's nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future... I'm told. Tagging techniques, whatnot. So when these criminal organizations in the future need someone gone, they use specialized assassins in our present called "Loopers." And so, my employers in the future nab the target, they zap them back to...
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The Past In The Future.
27 September 2012 | by (Australia) – See all my reviews

To begin, Looper is a sci-fi film set in the future, dealing with the implications of time-travel, although it is very much a film about the past. The film is all about the past, how it affects the present and the future and how it drives people with the majority of the film building characters and establishing plot.

Anyone looking for an action film will be sorely disappointed because this is first and foremost a writer's film, focusing on plot, character and dialogue. As mentioned above, the brunt of the film falls on development, more so than action set-pieces and CGI. The portions of the city and the near future Johnson has created, whilst some may see as unoriginal, I see as tributary. A lawless country split socially in half, poverty on one side, excess on the other, the world Johnson has manufactured carries an air similar to that of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, a comparably important sci-fi film in the struggle to build the credibility of the genre in the realm of modern cinema.

Not only is the film intelligent, it also acts as a courier for Johnson, a director of hit (Brick) and miss (The Brothers Bloom) repute following his sophomore outing.

If you support intelligent science fiction in the intellectual vein of Inception and Primer, Looper is a film sitting firmly in the middle of the two. Break the box office with this film and bring intelligence back to film-making.


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