Looper (2012)

Title:Looper 

Year: 2012

Genre: Action | Sci-fi | Thriller
Rating:8.0

Director: Rian Johnson

Writer : Rian Johnson

Releas Date:  28 September 2012(USA)
Runtime: 119 min
Star: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt

By 2044, the United States has suffered economic collapse, causing severe social decay and growth in organized crime. In addition, a mutation has occurred in 10% of the population giving them telekinetic powers.Time travel is invented in 2074, but is immediately outlawed.Tracking technology has rendered it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies secretly, so crime bosses send their targets back to the past where they are killed by "loopers": assassins paid with silver bars strapped to the victim.

When crime bosses want to end a looper's contract (called "closing the loop"), the looper will kill his future self and get paid with gold bars instead of silver. Failing to close the loop is punishable by death. The assassin's only weapon is a breech loadingblunderbuss, a crude but powerful firearm that is only effective over a very short range.

In 2044, Joe Simmons (Gordon-Levitt) is a looper for a mafia company in Kansas. His boss Abe (Daniels) was sent from the future to manage the loopers and also owns a club that Joe frequents, and where he spends time with Suzie (Perabo), a showgirl. Abe controls his own group of hired muscle, the "Gat Men", including the overconfident Kid Blue (Segan), who is desperate to prove himself to Abe. One night, Joe's friend Seth Richards (Dano) who also works as a looper visits him and tells him that he was supposed to close his own loop, but hesitated. Before Seth's future self escaped, he mentions the Rainmaker, a very powerful man who has taken over future organized crime world-wide and is closing all loops. Joe attempts to protect Seth, but betrays him to Abe instead of surrendering half of his silver, which he has secretly been stashing for his retirement. The mafia capture Seth and start mutilating him, knowing that the injuries will be translated to his future self. They scar an address on his arm which he has to go to. Along the way, Old Seth begins losing body parts, and upon arriving at the location he is killed by Kid Blue, closing the loop.

Later, during a contract, Joe is overpowered by his future self who escapes. After meeting in a diner, Old Joe (Willis) tells Joe that the Rainmaker sent him back to be killed, and that Old Joe's wife was killed during his capture. Old Joe killed his captors and traveled back in the past to kill the Rainmaker as a child. Joe attempts to kill Old Joe to fulfill his contract, but both of them flee when they are attacked by the Gat Men. Joe tears a scrap off a map Old Joe had, bearing a marked location and a string of digits. Old Joe uses the numbers to search a database, getting three possible children born on the same day in the same hospital, and he intends to kill all three, because one of them is the future Rainmaker.

Joe follows the map to a farmhouse owned by Sara Rollins (Blunt), who lives with her son Cid. When Joe shows Sara the map, Sara recognizes the digits as Cid's birthday and the serial number of the hospital he was born in, prompting Joe to explain the situation. Joe tells Sara about the Rainmaker and the danger they're in, and offers to stay and protect them, killing Old Joe when he comes around to kill the Rainmaker. As Joe and Sara become close, he learns that she is a telekinetic, and that Cid was raised by Sara's sister for most of his life until she died. Cid does not believe that Sara is his real mother. One morning, they are visited and interrogated by Gat Man Jesse Goldhar, who is killed when Cid falls down the stairs and lets out a telekinetic blast. Therefore Joe believes that Cid is the Rainmaker, and Sara confirms that Cid inadvertently killed her sister when he lost control of his telekinetic powers. Meanwhile, Old Joe is captured by Kid Blue.

Joe tells Sara and Cid to flee, surmising that his employers or Old Joe will target the farm. Meanwhile, Old Joe breaks free, killing Abe and all the Gat Men except for Kid Blue, who survives Old Joe's assault and finds a map which has the farm marked out on it. As the two Joes confront each other near Sara's house, Kid Blue attacks and is killed by young Joe. Old Joe escapes during the attack, then finds and attempts to kill Cid, prompting Cid to let out another telekinetic blast. However, before Cid can kill Old Joe, Sara calms him down and assures him by telling him his mother is with him. Old Joe tries to kill Cid again, but Sara stands between them. Joe realizes that if Old Joe kills Sara, it will traumatize Cid in a way that will contribute to him becoming the hateful powerful Rainmaker, who will try in revenge to close all loops in the future - thus creating a closed time loop. Since Joe can't kill Old Joe with the blunderbuss, because of its short range, Joe decides to kill himself with it, erasing his future self from existence. Thereby he is saving Sara and Cid. Which prevents the time loop and creates a new future in which Cid can be raised by his mother who loves him, which possibly won't make him the brutal rainmaker of the future.

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