10 years ago this week, Rian Johnson’s Looper burst into theaters with the sheer ventilating force of a blunderbuss shot.

Looper: Toronto Review Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis go head-to-head in writer-director Rian Johnson's clever science fiction tale.

There’s not much hunting; thanks to the time-transcending technology, Joe spends the assassination portion of his Looper life pointing a never-failing blunderbuss at his marks like a kid ...

So Looper juggles two weighty themes: whether nurture can overcome nature in the incubation of a potentially monstrous personality; and, in the matter of the two Joes, whether homicide can be suicide.

The mob of the 2070s catches its victims and sends them, hog-tied and with a bag over their head, back in time to be despatched by a Looper holding a Blunderbuss – essentially a futuristic, bare ...

We talked to the cast and director of Looper, and they explained to us why Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn’t get to have a cool gun. Where does a Looper fit in the gangster hierarchy of the future?

‘Looper’ Dismayed By Future Baldness in Time-Travel Parody (Video) The Joseph Gordon-Levitt stand-in is more upset by his receding hairline than threats of death from his mafia bosses.

The looper shoots the guy with a short-range shotgun, still called a blunderbuss. And if the looper is smart, he’s already got the victim lined up to land on a tarp, to make cleanup a snap.

Looper, review It’s impossible not to be tickled by the playful logic of Rian Johnson’s Looper, a fashionably sleek, unfashionably smart science-fiction film that tick-tick-ticks along with ...