Looper (2012)

Looper rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.4/10· 624K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic84%

TMDb6.9/10· 11K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.4/10 on IMDb and 84/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Looper

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.

Cast of Looper

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  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  as Joe

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  Bruce Willis

  as Old Joe

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  Emily Blunt

  as Sara

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  Paul Dano

  as Seth

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  Noah Segan

  as Kid Blue

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  Piper Perabo

  as Suzie

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  Jeff Daniels

  as Abe

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  Pierce Gagnon

  as Cid

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  Xu Qing

  as Old Joe's Wife

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  Tracie Thoms

  as Beatrix

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  Frank Brennan

  as Old Seth

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  Garret Dillahunt

  as Jesse

Looper facts

Budget

$30M

Box office

$47M

Our take on Looper

Rian Johnson's 2012 sci-fi thriller builds its premise on a cold-blooded piece of logic: in 2044, the mob disposes of victims by sending them back in time to hired killers called loopers, who collect the body and the payoff. Joe lives comfortably by this arrangement until his own future self is sent back for him to kill. Johnson uses time travel less as spectacle than as a moral trap, threading action through questions of consequence and choice. It suits viewers who like genre filmmaking with a thoughtful spine, and who don't mind a story that turns knottier and more intimate as it goes.