Film Preview: Looper

Watching the trailer it took me 10-15secs to realise that the main character is actually Joseph Gordon Levitt wearing some sort of nose prosthetic to make him look more like Bruce Willis. As the trailer continued it became clear why this is the case, Levitt plays Joseph Simmons who works for the mafia in Kansas City who is employed as a looper in 2042. A looper is employed to kill and dispose of agents sent from the future in 2072 from their Shanghai headquarters with the one rule being that the target must never escape but Simmons recognises his next target is himself from the future (Bruce Willis)

There has been quite a lot of marketing for this film in recent weeks on UK TV as they try to push it as a late summer blockbuster, the early reviews have been extremely positive with many calling it the best time travel yarn since 12 Monkeys which doesn't bode well for me since I didn't like 12 Monkeys!

Looper is released in the UK on Friday 28th September in the UK and the trailer is embedded below: