Looper

Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt    w/d Rian Johnson

Time travel film which relies heavily on big sound, car chases, explosions, etc. That said, within the narrow range of workable scenarios available to this type of story this one eventually settles down and tells a compelling yarn which builds to a spectacular climax.

About a third of this film should have been eliminated and the introduction of the premise presented to the audience in a better way. Once we got past the SOS dystopian near-future and moved the story to a remote farmhouse the script focused on people and personalities and began to come together. Unfortunately the lead was played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt who projects almost nothing and is unsuitable for this type of action-oriented film. Nice supporting work by EB and BW with a bizarre, unnecessary part contributed by Jeff Daniels, of all people,  as the bad guy. And an extraordinary performance by a young boy named Pierce Gagnon who rocks the screen in a few well-chosen scenes...helped of course by BIG SOUND. Great staging of the CGI scenes.

Nice film overall...quite a ways from Brick.

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