SPOILER ALART!!!!!!!! SPOILER ALART!!!!!!!!
Ok, so despite the fact that I'm late with this movie, on September 28, 2012, a futuristic, time traveling movie came to the theaters. Although it was nothing like Back to the Future or the Time Traveler's Wife, it did bring a different perspective to how things could turn out in the very near future. Just not quite the same way. With that eing said, todays topic is
LOOPER
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As always, we start with the actors and actresses along with their characters. Starting with the two main leads, we have Joseph Gorden-Levitt (Joe) and Bruce Willis (old Joe). With them is Emily Blunt (Sara), Pierce Gagnon (Cid), Paul Dano (Seth), Frank Brennan (old Seth), Noah Segan (kid Blue), Piper Perabo (Suzie), Jeff Daniels (Abe), Qing Xu (Summer), and Garret Dillahunt (Jesse).
The year is 2044 (or somewhere close) and there are people called Loopers who assassinate people from the future. These people have blocks of silver or gold strapped to their backs and put in the time traveling machine. Now if a Looper finds gold strapped to the back of the person they assassinated, that meant that they were done with being a Looper. Sort of like a retirement. Why, you ask? Because the just assassinated their future selves. When I saw this, I thought that if you killed your future self, you would disappear. Not in this movie. As long as you killed your future self, you retire as a looper and hope to continue living for at least 30 more years, if you're lucky. If not, well then you end up like Seth.
Seth got his person, however he did not kill old Seth. Seth's older vergin of himself starts saying things only he knows (unfortunately we don't get to hear it). As Seth stands there looking lost, old Seth asks for a cigarette and then runs. Seth trys to hide while old Seth trys to run, but neither of them are lucky enough to get away. No, instead Seth turns to the only friend he knows, Joe. Joe agrees to help Seth for a short time. When Joe see Abe, Abe makes things very clear to Joe. Abe is willing to give Joe a scond chance but only if he gives up his friend Seth. Joe sees no other way out, so he tells Abe where Seth is. When Seth is captured they find a way to get old Seth as well by torture, and old Seth meets them somewhere to finish the job as his body starts to disappear.
Kid Blue is a young guy who is desperate for Abe's approval. Kid walks with a limp because he shot his foot. Kid is also the guy Abe calls when someone doesn't kill their mark.
Joe desperately wants to help this stripper/whore who happens to be a single mother named Suzie. Unfortunately, she turns him down. Joe wakes up the next day to do his job, only his mark is late. When his mark arrives, the man's face isn't covered like all the others and this makes Joe freeze. When the man raises his head, Joe knows it's his future self and attempts to finish the job but gets knocked out. At first, this scene looks like a dream to me because when Joe is found and falls off the fire excape, they jump back to him waking up again for another days work. Once he's at his spot and waiting for his mark, the man shows up again, only this time he's on thime and covered. Joe does his job and kills his mark, never revealing the man's face, he rolls him over and sees the gold and then, at that moment, he knew he had killed himself. From there, he parties to celebrate his retirement and moves to China. He got a job with what looks like a mob of some sort. As Joe got older, he finds a woman that changes everything for hime, her name is Summer. She makes things better for Joe and they get married. However, her role was short lived. When a group of 3 or 4 men show up to take "old" Joe away, Summer is killed right in front of him. When he fights for his life, he enters the time machine and there stands Joe. Before Joe shoots, he realizes his mark isn't wearing a mask and it was at that very moment when he knew who that was.
A very short fight broke out between the tow of them, it ended with old Joe knocking out young Joe. When young Joe woke up, he noticed a note in his pocket that, in short, read, "Run!" Of course young Joe didn't want to run, he wanted his life back. The first thing young Joe does is he trys to get to his stash of silver but he's a little too late for that. Kid and some other guys were already there. As Joe trys to run, Kid catches hime and Joe manages to lock Kid inside of the safe. Just whn it seems he can make a clean break, Joe is caught again by one of the other guys. Lucky for Joe, old Joe was outside waiting, wondering why Joe didn't do what he was told, why he would think he could run home first. With both of them on the run for two different reasons, Joe comes up with a plan to lower old Joe to the dinner he always goes to after he finishes the job. Old Joe tells young Joe how one of his friends figured out what was going on in the future that was changing the past. This friend gave hime some numbers that was linked to 3 babies that was born on the smae day in the same hospital. These 3 kids still lived in the same city. The difference between all 3 of them is one of them is very smart yet so very dangerous. The smallest amount of fear or anger can set this kid off. Old Joe's plan is to kill this kid so that he cna continue his life with Summer. However, things get a little too complacated. While both of them are still on the run, young Joe starts to get sick because of the drugs had taken, he was beginning to have withdraws and stumbeled across a home in the fields. This home has one of the 3 children Joe is looking for. This is when Joe meets Sara and her son Cid.
You learn that when a peron relives the same life over and over agin, they tend to remember the things that have happened before. Take Cid for example, Cid knows that when he gets older, he plans on changing the world. Finding a way to it better due to all the "voilence" from the past. One of Cid's memories is one that no child should ever have to wittness which is seeing his mother's death. It's this memory that has Cid convenced that he is going to change things forever. Has it clicked yet? Are the pieces coming together for you?
At the same time that young Joe is protecting this mother and child, old Joe has already killed one of the three kids on his list. Since there was no change in his future, he knew that wasn't the kid. As he makes his way to the next kid, he recongizes the kids' parent. It's Suzie, the stripper and her kid. When he gets ready to make his move, young Joe, Sara and Cid get a visitor from the Looper business. Young Joe recongized him and called him Jesse. Infoming Sara that Jesse won't hessitate to kill her if she makes a move. While Cid is upstairs being quiet, Jesse and Joe have a conversation. Jesse didn't want to kill nor bring Joe in to Abe, so he was willing to let Joe go as if he never saw him at Sara's place. However, they were interupped by Cid walking down the stairs. Catching Jesse off gauard, he points his gun at Cid which scares him and he steps down on the next step the wrong way and falls down the stairs. Jesse releases his gun when he realizes it's just a kid, Joe trys to catch Cid before he hits his head on the ground, and Sara tackles Joe all the way out the house. I know what your thinking, why wouldn't she let Joe save her son, or why didn't she save him herself? Well, Cid needed no saving because, if you haven't figured it out yet, Cid is the ultiment weapon. It just takes fear or anger and this kid makes sure you don't wake up the next day. How you ask? With his mind and a very powerful scream. His mind controls gravity, so first lifting everything off the ground and then comes the very powerful scream. When Cid screams, it's very high pitched making things, or in the case, Jesse explode. It was at that moment when both young and old Joe knew which kid it was. Old Joe finds out because anything that happens to the young vergin of yourself, your future self gets or remembers. However, in the middle of trying to get rid of another child, old Joe gets caught by Kid Blue. Kid brings Joe to Abe.
Now earlier in the movie, you learn that it is Abe that gives Joe the Looper job. So, I guess you could say that because of Abe, Joe is a pretty damn good shooter, he never misses his mark. With that being said, Abe's biggest mistake was putting a gun in a very young Joe's hands and teaching him to be great, no, the best at this job. Abe paid for that mistake when old Joe killed everyone including Abe, well almost everyone. When he was finsihed, he continued to his mission and made his way to the field. Young Joe, still determined to keep Cid alive despite what he knows about the kid and what he is capible of doing. Needless to say, Kid Blue finally dies at the hands of young Joe while old Joe makes his way to Cid and Sara. From a distance, young Joe starts to remember everything from his future. As Sara continues to stand in the way and protect her son even though he doesn't believe she is his mother, at least not until this very moment. Once again, Cid gets very scared and begains to control gravity, lifiting both Sara and old Joe in the air. It takes the soft and calm voice of Sara to calm him down and that's when he knew that she was his mom. Once Cid is calm, Sara tells him to run as she continues to block Joe form killing her son. While young Joe was keeping them safe, Cid told him how his mother dies. Cid said his mother was killed by a man. It was at that moment when young Joe realizes that it is him, his future self that kills Sara. She said to Joe, things will be fine as long as he has me. Sara believes that as long as she is around, Cid won't change things, he be "bad." So, to end it all, instead of just killing his future self, he kills himself. Turning the gun away from old Joe and turning it on himself, he pulls the trigger and old Joe disappears. Leaving both Sara and Cid safe and with a truck load of silver bricks.
I give this movie a 4 star rating. I enjoyed this, it was different, but still enjoyable. It didn't have a whole lot of action to it, but I'm ok with that. What I liked the most was the part when old Joe gets brought in by Kid and starts shooting up the place. It had a kind of Die Hard kick to it. ;-)
Well folks, that's all for now, but stay tuned cause there's more coming. Til then.........
LET'S TALK MOVIES!!!!!
Next up............. Taken 2 (and it's another spoiler)
