movie review - Looper
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2012.08.14
This is a science-fiction flick in which an assassin kills people sent through a chute from the future. He's got questions about what he's doing and what his own future is like, but when he finds himself in the chute things take off. Multiple time-travelling Loopers show up. One of the things about time travel is that causality is a harsh mistress, and this makes itself apparent in various Loopers who are injuring each other's young selves only for the (permanent) wounds to show up in their older counterparts.
This thing is entertaining but ultimately a bit one-note. I enjoyed its originality and some of the clever angles they explored.
Recommended.