Movie Review: Looper..runs too many circles and delivers nothing

 

Hollywood is known for its original premises and smart plots especially in the sci-fi genre. Looper is clearly not one of them. An intriguing setting is put to waste by a nonsensical plot that takes too long getting to a rather underwhelming result. Plain and simple..avoid Looper in this week’s movie watch list. I know its a sci-fi movie and gems like Inception and Minority Report come to mind but put them aside. Looper is not even a patch on them

Looper starts off well. The movie has quite an odd title but you get to understand exactly why its so, quite early in the movie. The rather unique premise is aided by some no-nonsense explaining within the first few scenes of the movie by the protagonist narrating in voice-over. So far..so very good. But that’s just it. That’s where it ends. Its as if after this even the director was scratching his head – okay so now what. Where do I take it from here..and I doubt he got any good answers

After that, the movie takes you on a roller coaster ride to…nowhere and by the end of it all you are just desperate to see the ending credits. The only somewhat saving grace, comes rather late in the movie and even that is pretty underwhelming, considering what you’ve already endured

As for the performances, well those are pretty decent. Joseph Gordon Levitt looks funny (I guess that’s required for his character) but delivers well. Bruce Willis is in a strange role and doesn’t have much to do. Kids have a lot to do in this movie and one particular kid is rather impressive. Emily Blunt also does justice to her role – no complaints there

I, for one, am scratching my head on how the established reviewing fraternity have given this movie a generous 4 stars. Perhaps they didn’t understand the plot or maybe they understood it a little too well – either way I was rather dejected with what was offered. I fail to see how this could be seen as brilliant and thought-provoking. Its original and creative yes but then so were Wanted, Jumper and the like..we all know how those turned out

So don’t get swayed by all the critical acclaim. As I was reading somewhere its been a long time since a good sci-fi movie with a decent plot came out. As soon as they saw Looper they’ve jumped to the conclusion that this is it. Well its not..the wait for that still continues. If you still wanna go for this movie and have your head running around in circles, its entirely your call..I’ve warned you all I could