Movie of the Week: Looper

Because I'd heard good reports I had high hopes of this. You probably already know the basic premise: time travel does not exist now but in the future it does, however because of surveillance in the future it's almost impossible to assassinate someone and dispose of a body. So potential victims are sent back to the past, to a prearranged time and place, where an assassin is waiting. This is what happens when the victim and the assassin are the same person, thirty years apart. The trouble starts when Young Joe hesitates for just long enough to let Old Joe escape.

It's an intriguing set-up, well played by Bruce Willis and (as his younger self) Joseph Gordon-Levitt (vaguely familiar from the recent 'Dark Knight Rises'). The world is thoroughly and nastily realised.

Sadly it didn't quite live up to my expectations, though I admit I didn't see the end coming, which is a plus point. I was a bit worried because wat happened at the end means that at least part of what happened at the beginning didn't happen and therefore the changes effected were...

Bugger. wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff just does my head in every time. But yes, I enjoyed it.