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To attempt a better plot explanation. In 2072, time travel is illegal and carried out only by the mob in secret. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, a Looper in 2044, who is hired by said mob to kill vagrants on a clean slate by sending them tied and blindfolded into the past where their bodies have no record. This simple straightforward lucrative job for Levitt’s Joe is thrown out the window one day when he looks into the eyes of his latest kill, and they are his own. It turns out Joe’s employers have decided to close his loop, which means sending his 30 years future self back in time to be killed by his younger counterpart. Bruce Willis' Older Joe manages to elude execution and attempts to carry out a multifaceted plan that will have major repercussions on preventing a dystopian future. And go...
Why do you need to see Looper? Let's start with the performances. Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a star worthy performance as the young Bruce Willis. It's hard to figure out where prosthetics meet the subtle CGI which assist Levitt's morph job, but none of it takes away from the old school homage to Willis he physically and convincingly pulls off throughout the film. It's a performance that eerily mirrors Willis' facial mannerisms so much you wish you could forget the actual decades younger Bruce from Moonlighting and Die Hard.
Emily Blunt as Sara factors in when the film switches pace gears from its brisk opening hour to a grinding halt in its Witness-esque mid-section. But it's the relationship and subplot developed between Gordon-Levitt's Joe, Sara, and her ten year old son Cid (Pierce Gagnon), that gives the center the movie it's heart. The film builds upon that relationship until its threatened for the sake of the greater good, or what could be perceived as the greater good.
"ALF could be more outspoken now than ever, because the world is a whole different place than the '80s. And I think the character still stands up and certainly has more to say now than ever,” he says. “I think we would approach it in a fresh way. I don’t think we would duplicate the TV show, but I think we would maybe put it in a storyline where we would explain how ALF got here and put him with a new family and let the character speak for himself.”
“I think the timing is right. That’s a big important thing, timing,” he says, quite confident in his prediction. “There have been movies out there of characters that I didn’t think were on the same parallel as ALF that got movies made, so I think it’s time. I think it could be a home run on a lot of levels.”
