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A different way of telling a story

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Couldn't watch the last 30 minutes as too predictable. Could have been a good movie but was poorly executed.

Rian Johnson is a talentless hack...or the master of taking a great concept and completely failing to execute. How, after seeing this movie did Disney hand over the keys to Star Wars?!? Are we living in an alternate universe?!? This man must be stopped!

I have to say this, i am Impressed. Usually time travel movies end up messing its own logic and become very predictable and the pay off usually is not that good. But i loved this one, it gave me a clever climax, a rich character development, a perfect emotional-Action-Sci-fi movie. It gave me all the flavors i desire in a movie and that also in a good time span. Just go for it, Rian Johnson at his best.

Director/Writer Rian Johnson, heavy-weight-lifting "Star Wars: Episode XIII" for Lucasfilm Ltd at Disney Enterprises Incorporated, had created this sophisticated Science-Fiction movie from scratch with years of research in science, Japanese graphic novels and other movie-loving historical events, but the result is unable to present a universally compelling motion picture from start to finish.Nevertheless the director's surrounding team-players, going out from cinematographer Steve Yeldin and producer Ram Bergman kept their trust in Rian Johnson to be The Director for the job to helm a 200+ Million U.S. Dollar production budget for the upcoming next installment of "Star Wars". The screenplay to "Looper" feels over-written too many gathered notions and creatively spoiled ideas packed in, but not enough emotionally arching visualizations to grip the specter for two-hours in the dark of a movie theater's auditorium.So the movie becomes a roller-coaster of sensations on a well-distributed almost-indy budget of approximately 30 Million U.S. Dollars, which had been worth every cent in production value, but could not bring Rian Johnson's vision to a breathing enduring organic state. Despite the walking-through main story-line of the life of character Joe with four alter-egos portrayed by an inspired, but unchallenged cast ranking from Bruce Willis as Old Joe, Jeff Daniels as Abe, an even older Joe in disguise, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as fair, but unimpressive choice for the lead towards child-actor Pierce Gagnon as the character of Cid, the kid Joe with his overprotective close to annoyed-raising mother, performed by not-flourishing once in any scene of "Looper" actress Emily Blunt.The first 30 minutes of the picture start with the promise of amazing film entertainment far far away from the Hollywood cliché confrontations, but as soon as actor Bruce Willis gets his underrated entrance into the movie, on his knees and with a simplistic uplifting glance into the mirror of his 30 years younger alter-ego, it becomes clear that Director Rian Johnson had lost his way on the picture's image system. Previously impressively opening "Looper" with one shot cold-blooded killing in morning glory before the title card powers on, then plain desert light, a plastic rug and four static coverage shots with the only, if any emotional peak of a copying Sergio Leone's iconic "Once Upon Time In The West" (1968) ECUs (extreme-close-ups) on Willis' & Gordon-Levitt's seemingly undirected, lost in time eyeballing.By then, it got harder to get on up back into the saddle of things for the unless promising movie "Looper" (2012) on its search for its conclusion on the mystery of the character of Rainmaker, spanning 30 years of action in some decently crafted editorials by Bob Ducsay, who could not convince Director/Writer Rian Johnson's uneven but passionate brainchild to become a picture of great simplicity without copying layering techniques already been seen from Quentin Taratino's "Pulp Fiction" as well as the even further outgoing Oliver Stone directed "Natural Born Killers" (both 1994) over to Christopher Nolan's more accessible main-character-wise "Memento" (2000), only to forget all about a just vanishing performance by actor Paul Dano as Joe's only ally besides himself over and over again in the misdirected to overacting role of Seth with no character arc fulfilled when it is time to close the loop.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC) Data provided by An Amazon.com Affiliate