@CREDITS_FLEE2025-12-19 03:00 UTC
Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. Looper knows its audience.
“Popcorn's burnt. Like this film.”
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2012 · Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Looper
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Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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2012
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Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
PLOT SUMMARY
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
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@RATIO_RAT2025-12-25 03:00 UTC
Looper: where physics filed for emotional distress and lost.
@REEL_DEAL2025-12-27 21:00 UTC
Looper should come with a complimentary pillow for when the third-act CGI soup inevitably kicks in.
@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-14 01:00 UTC
The script for Looper feels like it was entirely written by an algorithm fed nothing but energy-drink commercials.
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r/movies · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 4.9k points
Unpopular opinion: Looper is the most overrated film of the decade
Just got out of Looper and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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r/movies · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 4.7k points
Hot Take: Looper's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Look, I wanted to love Looper. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/boxoffice · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 4.0k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Looper?
Honestly, Looper would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/criticalkino · u/JumpCutJunkie🔥 1.6k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Looper actually is?
Director clearly thought Looper was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
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