LOOPER

I didn't even read reviews before seeing this movie because it was science fiction and starred 2 good actors and the plot seemed intriguing - time travel is outlawed in the future so bad guys are sent back in time and loopers kill them. Loopers get rewarded handsomely and live for 30 years and then they meet their future selves and to connect the loop they  both die. These were  good enough  reasons to get us to want to see the film.

Well, in spite of the 95% of reviewers who thought this movie was original and clever and fantastic and full of twists and turns, i was bored. We both gave it a 5.

Part of the reason was that i got lost in the "action" after Joe's future self appears and he gets away so Joe is unable to kill future Joe in order to complete the loop. Joe is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and future Joe by Bruce Willis. In order to have Gordon-Levitt look like a young Bruce, they did wierd and distracting things to his face; his nose was a different shape and they changed the shape of his eyes and it looked like he was wearing eye make-up. it was very unnatural looking and seemed to get more noticeable as the movie wore on.

I don't know why the producers didn't get another actor to do the young Bruce who already resembled him in some facial and head features - like in the wonderful Men in Black 3- Josh Brolin didn't get all made-up wearing facial prostheses and eye liner to look like Tommy Lee Jones and yet he was perfect because he used his acting ability plus having a similar physiognomy to begin with.

And then as the movie progressed to its dull ending, i got even more confused when some sort of redemption moral lesson was introduced. and I never knew who was chasing who or why. Huge disappointment.