Friday Free Movie is Looper

This week’s Friday Free Movie is Looper.

Right now you can watch Looper for FREE on Sony Crackle.

While Looper is a movie about “time travel”, it does not solely revolve around “time travel”. Instead, it uses “time travel” to suggest ideas about how “time travel” might be used in the future and the ethical use of time travel.

Here are the opening lines from the movie, which provide a hint of the plot…

Time travel has not yet been invented. But thirty years from now, it will have been. It will be instantly outlawed, used only in secret by the largest criminal organizations. It’s nearly impossible to dispose of a body in the future… I’m told. Tagging techniques, whatnot. So when these criminal organizations in the future need someone gone, they use specialized assassins in our present called “loopers.” And so, my employers in the future nab the target, they zap him back to me, their looper. He appears, hands tied and head sacked, and I do the necessaries. Collect my silver. So the target is vanished from the future, and I’ve just disposed of a body that technically does not exist. Clean.

Looper was written and directed by Rian Johnson. Rian Johnson credits Primer, The Terminator, 12 Monkeys, and Timecrimes as other “time travel” movies that influenced him.

Starring: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. 

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Friday Free Movie is Looper

Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes

All Critics: 93%
Audience Score: 82%

Taglines

Hunted by your future. Haunted by your past.

Face your future. Fight your past.

By The Numbers…

Release Date: September 28, 2012
Running Time: 1:53
Rating: R
Box Office Gross USA: $66,486,205
Box Office Gross Total Worldwide: $176,506,819
Budget: $30,000,000 (estimated)