The sci-fi action-thriller Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis turns 10 this ... Rian Johnson’s Looper burst into theaters with the sheer ventilating force of a blunderbuss shot.

There are two main weapons in the movie the Looper’s blunderbuss, which is sort of a shotgun type thing. It shoots out buckshot, it’s a cannon.

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.

In the case of “Looper,” Rian Johnson has managed to wave the cloth of magical time travel over genre-bending sci-fi fixtures to produce a maturely novel version of a story old as Eden.

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 ...

The victims pop up, kneeling and hooded, and Joe blasts them away with his blunderbuss. Problem is that when the loopers survive into the 2070s, they too will be bagged, teleported and killed.

Looper is a clever, entertaining science fiction thriller that neatly blurs the line between suicide and murder. An existential conundrum wrapped in a narrowly conceived yarn about victims sent ...

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 ...

Rian Johnson’s futuristic sci-fi action film may be confusing, but reviewers agree: audiences will want to stay in the loop the whole time. By Stephanie Chan Release date: September 28 Set in ...