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Looper
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy tightly constructed time-travel thrillers where action set pieces serve moral dilemmas about destiny, aging, and personal responsibility.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- adrenaline, revelation
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- non-linear
- Themes
- identity, fate, violence, moral responsibility, sacrifice
- Setting
- near-future urban dystopia, rain-soaked city streets and rural hideouts
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