Thursday, January 3, 2013

Best Movies of 2012: #2


You've got to be pretty damn special to be ahead of the 2 most hyped movies of the year, and Looper was.

Besides providing Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt in their tremendous cast, the sci-fi setting and story presented was some of the best around in 2012, if not a long time. The idea of time travel has been around for a while and seen in movies plenty of times, but I can't remember seeing it like this.

Looper stars JGL as a hired gun, hired to kill people who are sent from the future who have done something detrimental. JGL discovers that they've sent his future self for him to kill, meaning his "loop" is over and he'll be dead in 30 years. From the shock of it, he doesn't do it, allowing his future self to go free, creating a big problem with the mob.

I don't want to confuse you and go on into detail about the next motives in the movie and whatnot, i'll say that is clever storytelling, and a good amount of action takes place. Each actor played their role perfectly, playing up the drama of the film.

With the perfect blend of storytelling, action, drama and a few shocking moments, Looper is #2 and there is only one movie that beat it out. 

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