Looper (2012)

In Brief  Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a Looper in 2072, a mob hit man who's contracts are sent bound, hooded and gagged from the future to the present. All Joe has to do is pull the trigger and collect the Silver bars strapped to they're back. When all his colleges start closing they're Loops (Killing they're future self, and rewarded with gold bars instead of Silver), Life is becoming one big party, Until Seth (Paul Dano) fails to close his loop, and then Joe's Future Self (Bruce Willis) comes back, with out the binds, the gags or the hood. Joe hesitates, and Old Joe escapes.

Writer Director Rian Johnson continues to build some pretty exciting and interesting worlds for his characters to live in. His Previous efforts Brick (2005, that also starred Levitt) and Brothers Bloom (2008) were all really well crafted and felt alive or real, and Looper is no exception. There's a lot of little details to the world, things that go unexplained that you pick up on, things that don't necessarily have anything to do with the plot of the story, but you understand they're there for a reason so you don't really question them. Its something that you can really appreciate, especially in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy film, because with out these details, they can feel so bland and uninspired. There's enough detail here, setup, for multiple films set in the same universe.
The Time travel is a bit his and miss. It seems to follow the same style/type as Back to the Future, in that deviations from the time line have a minimal effect initially, but could eventually have greater consequences. An example from early in the film come after Old Joes escape, His older self gets a headache as fractions of new memories start to come into place. It's a interesting setup, but doesn't necessarily hold up to scrutiny/logic. Better so then that of MiB3. There's a scenes with Older Joe trying to hold onto his timeline, as his life is being re-written while he sets about his plan, that's quite touching.
Performances are fairly solid across the bar, with Noah Segan's Kid Blue Seemingly taking the role of primary villan of the film and being a bit over done compared to the rest of the cast. Unfortunatly, some of them don't get as much screen time as you'd like (Jeff Daniels and Dano), but in return, no one really overstays they're welcome. There is a Secondary Plot line revolving around Sarah (Emily Blunt) and her Son, Cid (Pierce Gagnon), and telekinesis (along with 10% of the population) that i didn't really touch on in the brief, that becomes quite core to the main story.

So, yeah. Looper. Continues Johnson's progression as a director. He's 3 for 3 in my books, and i'm eager to check out his work on Breaking Bad. Looper is probably a film that will hold up to repeat viewings, finding something new in additional sessions to enjoy.