I get every other Friday off, generally when school is in session we drop SPB off at this school, then we go have breakfast and ride bikes. Yesterday though it was too danged cold to go ride so we ran a few errands and then went to see Looper. The new Bruce Willis action flick.

Looper is a time travel movie. It is set in two time periods in the future. The near period is 2044 in Kansas. Tell you what 2044 in Kansas is not very pretty. Things are pretty bad, I can’t figure out if it is because Romney or Obama won this next election. I wish somebody would tell me. Anyways back to the movie. In 2044 there a bunch of assassins called Loopers. What they do is go to a predesignated spot at a specific time, spread a tarp, wait a little, and then blast with a blunderbuss blasts some poor dumb schmuck who was sent back from 30 years in the future appears and appears out of thin air. The looper collects the silver that is taped to the schmuck and then disposes the body.

You see disposing  body in the future is very hard to do so when organized crime wants to off somebody they send them back to the past. The looper’s all very well paid and live the high life in among all the misery.

So far so good right, well the bosses in the future every once in a while for reasons of their own decide to “Close the loop” by sending a looper’s future self back to his younger self to be blasted away. They younger looper then has 30 years to live. A fundamental sin is for the younger looper to let the older looper get away. Then you got two versions of the same guy running around. That’s not good.

Well in this movie Bruce Willis plays the older guy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the younger version of Bruce, and does a great job also. I think Emily Blunt steals the show playing the shotgun toting single farmer  mother who shelters the younger Bruce for a time during the movie.

The movie was well done, the acting was great, the special effects nice, the whole deal. I didn’t really care for the movie that much. We saw lots of schmucks appearing out of thin air and very vividly blasted away with bloody bits going everywhere, lots of torture and disfigurement. There are children murdered (not on screen but the reference is there) and I just don’t care for that. Emily Blunt’s character is the only “good guy” in the movie.

So I’m not going to give a star review. The movie does well what it sets out to do, I’m just not glad that I went to see it.