This was
initially intended to be a guilty pleasure review but upon closer examination
I’ve realised something, there’s just not enough material for me to do so. GP
reviews tend to fall into 1 of 2 categories, one is the movies which I enjoy in
spite of their flaws out of legitimate passion for what they’re adapting. The
Dark Knight Rises and Daredevil (and arguably Iron Man 3) are prominent
examples.
The vast
majority however are movies with lots of sci-fi silliness, not intended to be
taken very seriously. This allows me to have fun pointing out some of the
sillier parts of the plot whilst at least enjoying it because its tone works.
The other thing about guilty pleasure movies, there tend to be problems
scattered throughout the movie, I would argue this isn’t really the case with
Looper.
Looper’s
certainly seen some good reviews, holding a damn good 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
and 84% on metacritic. In the box office it held its own, making $180m (give or
take) on a $30m budget, hardly blockbuster territory but it’s not what this
story was aiming for.
