Looper

Joseph Gordon-Levitt had the honour of being facially transformed to look like a young Bruce Willis, and Bruce Willis had the honour of staying exactly the same in this time travelling mind bender.

Set in the year 2044, travelling through time is nothing more than a concept. However roughly thirty years down the line it will be both invented and outlawed, only to be used by criminals as a means of body disposal. Enter Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his band of brother, or to those few in the know; Loopers.

The job is simple: The good unnamed people from the future zap a masked body to you in the past (Present). They appear, you shoot. Strapped to them will be your payment in silver bars, you dispose of the body then get on with your life till the next job. You work for as long as they need you, your Pink slip coming in the form of gold bars.

This is one of those jobs where you don't want to know the man behind the burlap sack, because there might be a case of performance anxiety when you see he has your slight aged eyes and a slightly more crooked version of your nose. He might then escape, putting the both of you in danger from you present employers who are then obligated to close your loop.

We all know ourselves better than anyone else, even if you don't quite understand what your future agenda is in the past (present). Joe isn't concerned with the technicalities, he just knows if he wants his life to go back to normal he need to hand over his own (future) head on a platter... But he's not the only one after himself.

If you try not to think about it too hard then it's a walk in park.

Pierce Gagnon who plays Cid was in fact (next to Bruce Willis) on of my favourite characters to watch on screen, not wanting to dive to far into his role in the movie he definitely delivered a believable performance and should their (God Forbid) be a live action version of Chuckie then we have found a perfect match.

It's a shame that the concept of time-travel wasn't explored a little more, as you start to wonder little things such as; why only the Mob have illegal access to such a worldly desired technology. Not only that but the subsidiary characters seemed slightly "Sim-ish" programmed to be there for the sake of the main character; He needs a boss so he has a boos, he needs an enemy so he has an enemy. Something as small as a one minute backstory themed soliloquy would have been sufficient, but the nit picking aside this movie definitely lived up to its over exposed anticipation.