Time travel movies have always held a certain charm for me. I mean, the possibilities can be endless; all the time ripples, paradoxes, and twists that one could come up with it can be so interesting, as long as a plot can follow through with a solid groundwork. Time travel movies can also be rather tricky, as once you contradict the same rules that you have established, your own plot can collapse in on itself. Director/writer Rian Johnson’s “Looper” is a film that is rightfully … more
Star Rating: Looper is one of the few time travel fables that didn’t have me scratching my head in utter confusion. Writer/director Rian Johnson doesn’t bog his story down with the same complex technicalities that make most time travel movies more perplexing than entertaining; somehow, he takes a radical idea and reduces it into layman’s terms, thus allowing non-sci-fi audiences like me the chance to understand what’s going on and why. … more