Film

Looper 2012

Directed by Rian Johnson

  • Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
  • 118 min
  • R

Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

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Contemporary, grave, plot-driven and bleak.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • warmbleak
  • earnestironic

Who loves it, who doesn't

The ProvocateurThe Provocateur: loved by 1The Provocateur: disliked by 11 / 1The FormalistThe Formalist: loved by 22The Thrill ChaserThe Thrill Chaser: loved by 22The CartographerThe Cartographer: loved by 1The Cartographer: disliked by 11 / 1The EmpathThe Empath: loved by 22The SincereThe Sincere: loved by 22The Prestige HunterThe Prestige Hunter: loved by 22The Genre DevoteeThe Genre Devotee: loved by 11loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

32 profiled raters. Loved most by The Formalists; disliked most by The Cartographers.

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