Looper: movie review

Overall, this movie proves that you have to suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy a quality flick.

One must simply ignore any kind of time travel discrepancies in order to make it work. And it does work. But you have to ignore things like:

1. If these guys in the future could send these men to the past to be executed with absolute precision as to where and when, why don't they send them straight back into the furnace? No middle man skilled, which is the crux of the whole problem.

2. Why would they send the future self to be killed by the younger self. That just sets up its own problems...you have to think this is going to be a problem at least once and here it's as problem twice...that we know of. There are hints to other problems with it.

3. Do they say ever why they can't just kill the young guy then? The younger self would have no idea...the lder self would disappear (which the internal logic of the movie indicates). The thirty years is their payoff for doing this, but these are mobsters--they could just say they are going away--then this could turn into a Logan's Run type of deal.

4. We must assume that thirty years is the limit to send back into the past or they would choose 300 years or 30,000 years, right? Some theories of time travel say that you can only go back as far as the first time machine was made, and they clearly indicate that time travel had not been invented yet in this past.

5. If you are the old guy on the run, after clocking yourself out, WHY would you leave your younger self behind? He already punched him, so we know it is not a touching thing or changing time thing. He should tie him up and keep him safe with him. Right??

6. Does anybody else think this turned into the plot of The Terminator halfway through?

7. And if the bad guys from the future are sending silver and gold back as payments, do they ever go back themselves, put all this money in a bank, live off interest, then even go put the interest back in time? So unless they have some big jobs to do, it clearly isn't about money.

However, I liked this movie. You must just sit there and say to yourself that this is just how it is in this world. Accept it, move on, and enjoy it. And I did.