Looper

Continuing the Summer of Cinema, I got this through my LoveFilm subscription. In a dystopian future, an assassin (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), or Looper of the title, finds himself in trouble with his employers when his future self (Bruce Willis) outwits him.

Not a bad movie, if a little over long for my taste. Gordon-Levitt spends most of the movie hanging around a farm looking at a loss for something to do, while Bruce Willis does his thing and shoots up the rest of the cast. One particular pleasure, though, is Gordon-Levitt's impression of Bruce Willis. Given Willis's limited range, I couldn't see them doing it the other way around.

The problem with the plot is that it exhibits a twist on the Grandfather paradox, which states that time travel does not work because if it does, you could go back in time and kill your own Grandfather before your father was born, thus preventing your birth and preventing you going back in time and killing your own Grandfather. In Looper, you can't forsee the future in such a way that you can change it and thus prevent yourself seeing the future.

Sorry. Just got a bit carried away there. You enjoy the movie and don't try to get your head around all the time-travel stuff. Otherwise, you'll end up trying to figure out Primer.