Looper
Directed by Rian Johnson
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination. From TMDB
166 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Oct 15, 2026 · last updated Oct 17, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 27 | 4 | 94 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Many viewers praise the film as a layered, character-driven sci-fi experience. [1][2][3][4] Some reviewers criticize the time-travel logic as full of paradoxes and flaws. [5][6][7][8] A few posters find the movie slow or unfocused, with wasted potential. [6][7][9]
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The plot is full of flaws. Quite like a even worse inception.
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At the start this reminded me a little of “Jumper” (2008) as it delivers a cleverly crafted idea of how murder might look in the 22nd century. It’s the ruthless “Joe” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is in the employ of the mob and is routinely and lucratively waiting for their troublemakers to be sent back a few decades in time so he can eliminate them and leave no modern day traces of the crime. The snag with this …
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'Looper' is entertaining! I had a fun time with this one. I guess that would come as little surprise given I do like basically everyone onscreen from other flicks, while that is true that isn't the sole reason for my enjoyment. The story is intruiging and is presented nicely by the filmmakers, I found it to be well paced too. Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives a strong performance, even with make-up that occasionally makes …
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Just watched Looper again for the first time in years. I forgot how layered it was. What a fantastic film.
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#NowWatching Looper. Love this film. Love Rian Johnson. Come at me, haters.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
Looper opened on September 28, 2012, in 2,992 theaters in North America and grossed $20,801,522 in its opening weekend averaging $6,952 per theater and ranking #2 at the box office. The widest release of the film in the U.S was 2,993 theaters and it ended up earning $66.5 million domestically and $110 million internationally for a total of $176.5 million, against its $30 million production budget. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 275 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good…
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Reactions
60 of 166 · most liked firstLOOPER. My favorite sci-fi film. EDGE OF TOMORROW is also a time travel movie and it fucking slaps. Hot take: BACK TO THE FUTURE is great. Not a movie, but THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER is right up there.
neutral · AI labelView post →LOOPER? My favorite sci-fi film of the 21st century? Anyone associated with that is royalty to me.
positive · AI labelView post →The Super Mario Galaxy Movie | Reviews 7.5 - Seattle Times 7 - Collider 7 - Looper 6 - IGN 6 - Time Out 6 - Total Film 5 - Playlist 5 - Screen Rant 5 - Boston Globe 4 - Independent 3 - NYT 3 - Slash Film 3 - Screen Daily 2.5 - TheWrap 2 - Variety 2 - Guardian 0 - The Times MC: 35 RT: 45% Rotten
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched "Onibaba": I was expecting a ghost story! 👺 "Power of the Dog": Complex emotions 🤠 "Civil War": Aspirational ending 🤞 "Fall": Too long, too stupid 😠 "Keeper": Liked the reveal 🧑🧒🧒 "Looper": Go to China 🇨🇳 "The Bluff": Bad film, fun time! 🏴☠️
neutral · AI labelView post →Just rewatched Looper, and I maintain it is @rianjohnson.bsky.social's best work. Love that movie so much.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to the incredibly versatile Emily Blunt, 2/23/1983! She has, literally, scored bangers in every genre of film. Drama: Sicario Comedy: Devil Wears Prada Action: Edge of Tomorrow Sci-Fi: Looper Horror: Quiet Place Musical: Mary Poppins Returns Historic: Young Victoria #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →it was extremely easy for me to understand the movie Looper
neutral · AI labelView post →The lengths that entertainment websites will go to vaguebook a headline always crack me up. Tim Curry in a Sean Connery submarine movie? WHICH ONE, LOOPER? THERE ARE SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Rian Johnson movie Looper, but starring the Utz Girl and Grandma Utz.
neutral · AI labelView post →Bob Ducsay speaking with our students @ucdenver.bsky.social' Film Club after a screening of LOOPER. What an amazing privilege.
neutral · AI labelView post →Idk if yall ever seen the movie Looper with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but I remember dude saying “I’m from the future, learn Chinese.” And is lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →You should watch this movie. It's funny and fast-paced and has a lot of heart, and the message or whatever honestly reminds me of Looper (violence vs love, vengeance vs mercy)
neutral · AI labelView post →without even addressing the antisemitism, really pushed it into Looper territory, like you look enough like the guy as is, just make the movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Comedy/horror - Army of Darkness Scifi- Looper Romance - Outlander (not a movie, I know)
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched Looper again for the first time in years. I forgot how layered it was. What a fantastic film.
positive · AI labelView post →If you see this, quote this post with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE. Looper (2012)
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #Wah24 Day 4: Looper "This film is on On a maddening loop" 'Country Feedback' - R.E.M. youtu.be/6EHBh1FuY1Q?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Looper. Love this film. Love Rian Johnson. Come at me, haters.
positive · AI labelView post →After the success of Looper, in 2014 Universal made moves at creating a Timecop remake
neutral · AI labelView post →I decided to rewatch Looper tonight. I forgot how great this movie was
positive · AI labelView post →You know what’s a good movie? Looper.
positive · AI labelView post →For Looper I wrote about Vince Gilligan's WILDER NAPALM -- the world's only dark fantasy romance movie starring Dennis Quaid as pyrokinetic clown -- and why it should be your next cult favorite.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rian studied the movie The Witness while working on Looper. But we know what the #Reylo King did when I noticed this scene 🙂↕️
neutral · AI labelView post →"Looper" (In my personal experience, a film that doesn't get nearly enough recognition or love...could just be the circles I move in though).
positive · AI labelView post →A really good movie experience with zero prior information for me was Looper. I also really enjoyed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the big screen. We FLINCHED at Sweeney Todd. Went to an Empire Strikes Back re-release that was an absolute blast.
positive · AI labelView post →The fact that Rian Johnson, the man who directed The Last Jedi, Looper, Knives Out and Glass Onion, now has to fight for his movies to be shown in movie theatres, is making me wanna crash the fuck out
neutral · AI labelView post →Love ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND? Love when a movie breaks your heart into little pieces & (maybe) tapes it up again? For Looper I wrote about 15 films exploring similar themes of love, loss, perception, & memory, from MILLENNIUM ACTRESS to TIMESTALKER & PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN!
neutral · AI labelView post →If I want to show someone how to make an effective, character based Sci Fi film in the indie/arthouse/cult space? I’m screening “Aliens”, “The Terminator”, “The Signal”, “Attack The Block”, etc. You gotta make “Brick” just to make “Looper” for $30 million to get $300 million to make “The Last Jedi”
neutral · AI labelView post →I unironically love TLJ but he sometimes has the problem of trying to make 1.5 movies’ worth of ideas into one movie. (See also: Looper)
neutral · AI labelView post →what do i do for a living? have u ever seen the movie Looper? yeah i basically do that but instead of killing people who get sent back in time i have sex with them.
neutral · AI labelView post →I got a free Looper loosie at the movie swap, so I can watch it and then finally listen to @thisshouldbeaga.me.
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to watch some sort of sci-fi futuristic film/post apocalyptic or space ish type film similar or along the lines of: Oblivion Ex-Machina Arrival Interstellar Gravity The Martian Looper Blade Runner 2049 Contact Any ideas? 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →#RelativeMusic Day 9: former Belle &Sebastian member Stuart David formed Looper with his wife Karn. They used to (maybe still do) give their music away for free, making money by licensing it for film use etc Looper - Up A Tree Again youtu.be/UW4Ip3N_UdU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello Blue Sky! This is Lisa Laman, I'm a film writer and RT-approved film critic contributing pieces to sites like Culturess, ComicBook dot com, AutoStraddle, Looper, Dallas Observer, and many others! Check out my portfolio website below pleeease! lisalaman.wixstudio.io/lisaportfolio
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone else disappointed by the movie Looper? I like Bruce Willis as much as the next moth, but woah what a bait and switch on the title! Not a single Common Looper Moth featured. And yes, I checked the bark and dead leaves. Let down #NonHumanNeighbours #Moths #TeamMoth #Insects #Nature #Photography
negative · AI labelView post →Inspired by Paradise, do we like multiverse/time travel shows? “I like comic book multiverse/time travel stuff… they’re a better format for it than TV and movies.” - @daviddennisjr.bsky.social “Looper is the essential time travel movie.” - @minakimes.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →In the 1970s, David Niven, John Cleese, and the screenwriter of VERTIGO made a sex comedy so bad that Roger Ebert walked out of the theater. I dive into this crazy obscure bit of film history for Looper:
neutral · AI labelView post →Looper! Awesome movie despite the two leads looking nothing alike.
positive · AI labelView post →One of my favourite photos of one of my favourite directors & favourite actors [Since Looper & Girls] who made my favourite Star Wars film ever. A lot of favourites there. The kids in the other photos could be me. I've been onboard since the very beginning. A long time ago.
neutral · AI labelView post →Scream Kings! They make us shriek, shiver, and...swoon? NEW for Looper: My ranking of Hollywood's greatest Scream Kings. Some of my favorite actors of all time are here -- are yours?
neutral · AI labelView post →Actually, I was fairly middle of the road on every Rian Johnson film I'd seen (Looper almost fatally undone by that big fake rubber nose they put on Gordon-Levitt to make him look like Bruce Willis) until Knives Out, so maybe he was playing a long psychological game to make that hit even harder.
neutral · AI labelView post →'Looper.' Good movie. Do people like 'Looper?' I do.
positive · AI labelView post →I mentioned Looper last time, great film. Ever seen Russian Doll on Netflix? Season 1 is a time loop, 2 is more conventional time travel. Both excellent! The way they travel is maybe less interesting than time travel as a metaphor for regret, personal or cultural. Funny, too! #timetravelauthors
neutral · AI labelView post →"Just like the hit film LOOPER!" older you will say. "The fuck is a LOOPER?" younger you will say.
neutral · AI labelView post →In theaters tonight: Zach Cregger’s Weapons [82] is a Metacritic Must-See. www.metacritic.com/movie/weapons/ “One of the best horror films of the year.” - Audrey Fox, Looper
neutral · AI labelView post →Spell your name with movie titles Dogma Annihilation Nope Ingrid Goes West Eraserhead Looper Live Free or Die Hard Evil Dead
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW on Looper: I rank the five best sci-fi movies of 1988! Featuring doomed scientists, creepy psychic children, freaky-ass aliens, and more!
neutral · AI labelView post →With the first 32 critic reviews lodged, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple has a Metascore of [80] In theaters Thursday night: www.metacritic.com/movie/28-yea... "One of the best horror sequels in recent memory, and a must-see horror film for 2026." - Matthew Jackson, Looper
neutral · AI labelView post →August's Movie Musts 2025: MORE favourite directors in no particular order. 😁🎥🎞️😎👌 55. 🎬 Rian Johnson My favourites: 🎞 Looper 🎞 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi 🎞 Knives Out #Filmsky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →i watched Looper for the first time in a while last night. fantastic movie
positive · AI labelView post →The logic of LOOPER doesn't hold but MAN, the look of that film, the tone. It's just so good. Rian Johnson just makes his films look so precise Same editor (Ducsay) and cinematographer (Yedlin) on it, that's on Last Jedi, Knives Out, Glass Onion, etc
positive · AI labelView post →My DCSona is Looperman he has the same powers as Superman but he watches the movie Looper a lot
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie that takes place where you’re from. It’s never stated but I maintain LOOPER has to take place in Wichita. Not the best movie set in Wichita though, that would be WICHITA.
neutral · AI labelView post →Looper, a tragically underrated movie I will be yelling about until my final day
positive · AI labelView post →I caught the first 20 minutes of Looper (2012) earlier today and now I'm not comfortable watching another movie until I finish it. 🤷♂️🍿📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →continually tweaking that I am stuck viewing the film in context of other films, Looper, and the Knives Out series. 1 director. 1 editor. Whole trilogy. No changes to those two positions. It's a mandate.
neutral · AI labelView post →2. Looper (2012) - did the world need a Bruce Willis time travel movie other than 12 Monkeys? Not really, but its ok
neutral · AI labelView post →Come check out on Looper my picks for the 12 best movie trailers of 2025! www.looper.com/2046366/best...
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved LOOPER. I am on record repeatedly as saying that THE LAST JEDI is the best film in the franchise.
positive · AI labelView post →Posted 10 months ago. Is this like in the film Looper? Does Fesshole come back in time to be killed by their younger self? https://bsky.app/profile/fesshole.bsky.social/post/3l7oly3mqug27
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