Looper Reviews
Daily Mail [UK]
The first half of writer/director Rian Johnson's film is gripping, but by the second half it's all become unbelievably confused and disjointed.
Fan The Fire
A disappointment from an ingenious and intelligent filmmaker
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticThe dystopian setting... makes for some bold cultural commentary, but as usual with Johnson, the engaging ideas feel like affectations rather than products of a fully developed sensibility.
The second Rian Johnson movie in a row (following The Brothers Bloom) that looks great but meanders while doing it.
MediaMikes
Kind of a reverse-"Terminator" without any of James Cameron's wit (or wisdom),
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| Original Score: 2/5
honeycuttshollywood.com
Intriguing conversation material but curiously cold and unsatisfying as drama.
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| Original Score: 5
tonymacklin.net
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the loopy looper, has to time travel into another time to kill himself (Bruce Willis) so that he doesn't make bad movies. No, that's not it. So he can avoid Demi Moore. No. Oh, forget it.
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| Original Score: 2.0/5
Urban Cinefile
It's a thriller with fantasy elements and if you disregard (or don't care about) the internal confusion of its world, you may find it works for you
EntertainmentTell
Yet another rehash of the first "Terminator" film, revisiting the time travel genre without bringing a whole lot new to the table.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO ESSAY] As time-travel suspense thrillers go "Looper" is a pinch better than mediocre.
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| Original Score: C+
Cinemalogue.com
The transgression of internal logic suspends a faithfully observant viewer's disbelief more than Mr. Gordon-Levitt's glued on eyebrows.
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| Original Score: C
Sci-Fi Movie Page
Not quite the time travel story science fiction fans were hoping for, alas.
Tolucan Times
Ingenious with a fine performance by Emily Blunt, but far too much cold-blooded violence.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Atlantic City Weekly
While Gordon-Levitt and Willis have a blast with the space-time issues and some funny dialogue, the movie loses steam after a solid start.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Looper felt to me like a maddening near-miss ...
Sci-Fi Movie Page
...a muddled echo of several other films where the filmmakers treated their ideas as something more than a gimmick.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Badass Digest
With a heady script, stunning performances and fist-pumping action, LOOPER is the most enjoyable combination of immensely watchable yet poignant, even cerebral.
Concrete Playground
A fresh, intelligent and action-packed addition to the time-travel anthology.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Star
The smartest, most stylish and most outright entertaining science-fiction film of the year.
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| Original Score: 5/5
SciFiNow
Doesn't quite reach the heights of the lofty ideals that it so ardently seeks to expound, but makes up for this with the sheer thrill of the journey Rian Johnson takes us on.
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| Original Score: 4/5
