September 27th, 2012 - 12:22 pm        The film is set in the
mid-21st century. Time travel hasn’t been invented yet but it
will be. And future crime lords will zap their victims to the
past, where young guys like Gordon-Levitt’s Joe, called Loopers,
will blow them away with a giant canon gun and dispose of the
body. Loopers get paid well and live a life of fast-paced
decadence: But there’s one catch. At some point, those future
crime lords will decide to “close the Loop”—meaning terminate
the Looper’s contract by having them kill the future version of
themselves.  One might reasonably ask: Why on earth would a
20something agree to blow himself away? But I totally bought it.
When you’re that young, you can’t imagine being over 50—you
certainly can’t imagine having a life worth living at that age.
Live fast, die young is the credo of these flashy young
assassins—until 59-year-old Joe (now Willis) decides he has
something to live for and outsmarts his young counterpart.  So
many genius conceits: If young Looper