Date: Wednesday 10th October
Film: Looper (2012)
Director: Rian Johnson
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels
Running Time : 1 hour 58 minutes
Rating: 9.5/10
Wednesday night, off to the cinema for a new film that I've been waiting forever to see. Worth the wait? Yes. Definitely.
The story has the potential to be really confusing - in 2044 Joe works as a looper. In 2074 the mob send people back in time and Joe is responsible for killing them, no matter who they are. When the mob wants to retire the looper, they send their future self back for them to kill. Except Old Joe comes back, and escapes before Joe can kill him. Setting off a chain of events that can potentially change the future and the present.
Rian Johnson has written the film in a way that explains the more complicated parts of the plot in an understanding way without talking down to the audience. Joseph Gordon-Leviit excels (as usual - has this boy ever made a bad film?), particularly in his mimicry of Bruce Willis, whilst the prosthetics help him with the look, he enhances his act by recreating the mannerisms, the mouth movements and the tone of voice that Bruce Willis is well known for.
Kudos to Emily Blunt for a brilliant Midwest accent, to Paul Dano for a scene stealing performance and to Pierce Gagnon for successfully creeping me out.
I can see why Rian Johnson is getting comparisons to Christopher Nolan, in the same way that Inception was a fresh take on something we've seen done many ways before, Looper is a brilliant take on the well trod time travel film.
Go see it.
Challenge day: 17
Challenge time : 01 days, 00 hours, 02 minutes.
Challenge film total: 12
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