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Looper [Blu-ray]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Bruce Willis , Rian Johnson    Suitable for 15 years and over   Blu-ray
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (164 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano
  • Directors: Rian Johnson
  • Writers: Rian Johnson
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Colour, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment One
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Jan 2013
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (164 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B008OPZT8G
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 141 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Product Description

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - 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 (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt,Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce.

Special Features

  • Feature commentary by director Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt
  • Featurettes: "Looper: From the Beginning" , "Scoring Looper"
  • 4 deleted scenes with commentary by Rian Johnson and Noah Segan
  • Looper animated trailer
  • Featurettes: "The Science of Time Travel", "The Two Joes", "New Future, Old School" (Exclusive to Blu-ray)
  • 17 Additional deleted scenes with commentary by Rian Johnson and Noah Segan (Exclusive to Blu-ray)

Product Description

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - 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 (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt,Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Violent, oddly paced but very good 13 Mar 2013
By Mr. R. D. Turner TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Blu-ray
This film is rated 15 - which is amazing to me. There is a fair bit of violence and an implied torture scene is chilling. There is also bad language from the off and simulated drug taking. So anyone with young teenage kids - please be aware!

That said it is a very decent film. The premise is that time travel has been invented but banned. The only people using it are criminals and they use it selectively to get rid of people. The Looper in the title is a person who carries out an execution when the person is sent back from the future. The science fiction is reasonably well thought out and used well but it serves as a backdrop to a human story.

This film works because we see the protagonist go on a journey and end up changed by the result. The mid section of the film drags a bit but the end scene works very well and I am glad I saw it.

I saw the Blue Ray edition which had good sound and very clear visuals, especially in the outdoor scenes.
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67 of 82 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great entertainment 11 Oct 2012
By J. Potter TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
With a story centred around time travel and hitmen, a cast headed by Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and very strong support from the likes of Emily Blunt, Looper has been getting a lot of press. Most of it, I thought, was very justified.

In the future, crime syndicates are so big they own the very best technologies, including time travel. When they want someone disappeared they literally do that, sending them back in time to be executed by a Looper - a contract hitman who asks no questions and takes payment in the gold and silver strapped to his victim. Joe is one such Looper, and then the hit that appears before him, is himself from the future, and he's on a mission.

From start to finish Looper enthralls. Notably for a film about time travel it doesn't dally with any of the dogma that has weighed down other movies. Looper pays time travel its due respect and gets on with the story. It looks very well made but doesn't appear to be big budget, with scant glimpses of future cityscapes. Rather it focuses on the characters and story, giving us two polished performances from Willis and Gordon-Levitt, with a stand-out from Emily Blunt that anchors the other two. My overriding sense throughout was of a captivating and visually compelling story as we first figured what the old Joe's mission was and then weighed its worth. It has been one of the most difficult stories for me to summarise because so much of what it's about is wrapped around the end.

Unfortunately the end, despite it's impact, gave up on the chance to resonate beyond the credits. Instead it moralised about our future being dependent on what we do now, with a slight of hand thrown in that invoked M. Night Shyamalan. I have no problem with moralising at all, if it fits the story. However, it's only at the end we realise key elements of the story have been stepped around to make it all pay dividends. It didn't so much leave a bad taste but a knot of disappointment that remains, having been so enthralled throughout.

Looper is a movie well worth your time. It is imaginative filmmaking at its best despite a finale that wasn't quite the sum of all it's parts.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Closed Loop or Open Question? 5 May 2013
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
There is something about Philip K. Dick's short stories make great movies. From Minority Report, Total Recall, Paycheck, The Adjustment Bureau, something about ideas in his novels, but particularly his short tales, that seems to make them perfect for expanding into larger movies. That said they often undergo a change of tone in hollywood's hands. Blade Runner lost it's Mercer Boxes and electric sheep to become a film noir that focused on what it meant to live (not that I'm complaining, what a movie!) The original short story that became The Adjustment Bureau was focused on the disturbing thought that some faceless Bureaucrat somewhere was auditing your life, where the hollywood version made it a love story, where the adjusters were angels (and the Chairman, by implication, God).

Looper feels like a Philip K. Dick story. It's disturbing, it's not neat or even necessarily logical (`...that's an exact description of a fuzzy mechanism'). It has a menace to it and the ending offers hope, but no guarantees. It portrays a sort of rundown American future of the 1950s, with a modern drug scene controlled by a powerful organised crime syndicate whose future influence is already being felt. It is not a buddy movie where young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his older self (Bruce Willis) take on the world and right wrongs. The real point of this story is a philosophical question. If you could travel back in time to when Hitler was a child, would you kill him? What would your answer say about you?

There are great performances throughout this movie from Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels (great as a horribly efficient, world weary gangster from the future) and Noah Segan who veers from amusing to horrifying as incompetent enforcer Kid Blue (implying that much of the evil in the world is caused by anger, fear and disappointment rather than by nihilistic hatred). Bruce Willis proves what a good actor he is by making an unsympathetic role understandable, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a compelling leading man.

The Bluray release has excellent with great picture and sound, and the steelbook version is a thing of beauty.

Some reviewers have complained that the ending is inconsistent. I disagree. The mistake that characters make throughout the movie is thinking that just one more death will sort things out. Young Joe's actions in the last scene are not only a logical consequence of situation (the limitations of the 'Blunderbuss' weapon are discussed at several points in the film), but a philosophical statement that a cycle of violence cannot end until someone decides not to strike back. Making that choice does not guarantee a happy outcome, in this film or real life, but in the end it's the only course of action that offers one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Better the 2nd time I watched it
The first time I watched it in the Cinema it was very good but I have just watched it again on DVD and it is better the 2nd time round. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
It was an OK film but predictable. If I had watched it before buying I probably would not have bought the DVD.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Utter nonsense
Not the best sci-fi film I've ever seen and certainly not Bruce Willis' finest hour but I suppose it was amusing enough to while away an hour or so. Read more
Published 8 days ago by Dawn Waterman
1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor.
Despite a strong cast I found this film disappointing as it never really had a good plot and as such was inconsistent throughout.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Sci-Fi
Was completely captivated by this film from start to finish. Can't understand all the negative reviews, if you can grasp the basic premise of time travel to the past affecting the... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Jo
1.0 out of 5 stars Crap
I love this type of film(Bruce is good), but this move is s***,it is a load of crap!to fill in the extra words it is a crap movie.
Published 15 days ago by Gwyn Lloyd-jones
5.0 out of 5 stars looper
dvd works on all devices used so far. this is a very good film, not the mad action film you might expect, but gets you thinking though.
Published 19 days ago by David Hughes
5.0 out of 5 stars Looper
Very different from other films but well worth the watch. Plot was not clear until the end when it all came together and made sense it was good entertainment
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