Endless time Loop

After seeing Looper on opening weekend, I couldn't believe that it didn't get more advertising than it did.  Positively one of the best if not the best sci-fi movie that I've seen since Star Trek in 2009.  Joseph-Gordan Levitt plays a "looper" in the past for a future mob.  Time travel is invented and it quickly becomes illegal due to the fact that it becomes to powerful of an asset.  The mob secretly still has it and uses it to send "hits" back in time to be killed.  Levitt plays the assassin that kills the hit.  The mob sends the person back in the past due the fact that it is utterly impossible to hide a body in the past.  There are cameras everywhere that sees everything and hears everything.   As soon as the hit appears in the past, the looper kills him with a blunderbuss shotgun and the looper collects his pay in silver bars.  If the mob wants to kill the looper and not have them working for the mob anymore for any reason, they "close the loop" by sending the looper's older self back into the past and the looper unknowingly kills himself in the future.  This is what happens to Joseph-Gordan Levitt.  His older self, played by Bruce Willis, actually lives during the assassination and knocks his older self out to escape.  The movie is packed with action and adventure, and the story is absolutely awesome.  Half of the run-time is Bruce Willis's movie showing the 30 years after Levitt kills his loop the 2nd time around.  Yes..I said 2nd time.  After the 1st time and Bruce Willis gets away, he goes back to his apartment to get all of his silver and get out of town, because well...you see...not killing one of your hits is punishable by death.  With that being said, Levitt is in very big trouble.  This concept of what happens to you when you don't kill your hit is shown during the beginning scenes of the movie when Levitt's friend doesn't kill his.  I won't give it away but let's just say that it involves razors and dismemberment.  Anyway...Levitt's character goes back to his apartment only to find 2 men there ready to kill him.  He attempts to get away but winds up falling on top of a car and killing himself.  As soon as he hits the car, the scene cuts back to him standing there with his blunderbuss waiting for the loop to get there.  This time he doesn't miss.  Reason being...Bruce Willis's head is covered this time so Levitt doesn't hesitate.  Now, when your loop is closed, you are giving a golden pay day.  The translation is quite literal in meaning that you get gold bars instead of silver.  The mob fires you and you have 30 years to live your life as you please.  That's exactly what Levitt does.  He lives his life.  He goes to China and eventually gets married.  I wont give anymore away but I can tell you that involves a mother and small child.  Amazing story and flow.

CG and special effects are stunning.  Nothing seems corny and the futuristic scene seems a lot more realistic than "Jetson" style.  The producers went all out in making this movie non-computer animated looking.  Weapons of the future seem very plausible for being so many years in the future.  Music was very well scored and done.  As I said before, story and plot are amazing.  I'm expecting an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.

The one thing that I really liked was the make up that was used to make Bruce Willis and Joseph Levitt resemble eachother.  There were some points in the movie when I wasn't sure that it was Levitt that I was looking at.  It was really cool to look at.  Another close runner up though was the ending.  I'm not saying anything but it was an awesome ending.

Overall the movie was exceptional.  I didn't know what to expect going in to the film but I was happy when I left the theater.  Score of 8.7/10.  B+