Film Review – Looper

Writer/director Rian Johnson has developed a reputation for
uncompromising, inventive work (with “Brick” and “The Brothers Bloom”),
and his latest, the sci-fi brainteaser “Looper,” is no different. While
his features are intricately designed and heavily considered, Johnson’s
not one to keep an eye on pace, often so enamored with screen
particulars that a simple sense of forward momentum is missing, losing a
primal cinematic drive to step back and admire his handiwork. “Looper”
is the closest the filmmaker has come to a dazzling motion picture,
toying with the conventions of the time travel subgenre to fashion his
own thriller, a movie with real teeth and a working brain. Although
intermittently ferocious, “Looper” doesn’t hold the viewer by the throat
for two hours, showing a troubling lack of stamina the longer it
develops the central conflict. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com