Looper
2012 · Movie · R · 118 min · ★ 6.9 · 89% critics
In a grim near future, criminal gangs use time travel to erase people by sending them into the past, where hired killers are waiting. One routine job goes wrong, pulling a paid assassin into a dangerous chase shaped by fate, violence, and hard choices.
Also known as Looper: Les Tueurs Du Temps
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2012-09-26
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Critic score
- 89/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 (10,914 votes)
- Box office
- $176,506,819
- Budget
- $30,000,000
About
You may like this if you enjoy dark, twisty time-travel thrillers like 12 Monkeys or Minority Report; Not for you if messy paradoxes or bleak violence quickly frustrate you.
Pros: clever premise; tense action; strong atmosphere | Cons: time paradox issues; uneven pacing; unresolved plot points
Themes
- future
- suicide
- assassin
- dystopia
- drug addiction
- time travel
- retirement
- tragedy
- murder
- organized crime
- execution
- criminal
- +4 more
Awards & recognition
- National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Cast & crew
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
as Joe
Bruce Willis
as Old Joe
Emily Blunt
as Sara
Paul Dano
as Seth
Noah Segan
as Kid Blue
Piper Perabo
as Suzie
Jeff Daniels
as Abe
Pierce Gagnon
as Cid
Xu Qing
as Old Joe's Wife
Tracie Thoms
as Beatrix
Directed by Rian Johnson