Joseph Gordon Levitt puts on some Bruce Willis blusher and eyeliner to become a guy who lives in the present but kills people who live in the future but are sent back for the purposes of the killing by the mob. Time travel only seems to work one way and is controlled by some unknown future guy who pretty much runs the world. Joseph works for Jeff Daniels in the present who was a future guy but is now a present guy. Joseph works for them killing people until the day he is sent back for himself to kill in order to close the loop. This happens but somehow future Joseph, Bruce Willis, has got his hood off and escapes. He then runs around trying to find the person who rules the mob in the future and kill them whilst they are a child. Joseph is hot on Bruces tail as he still needs to close his loop and a game of cat and mouse and smaller mouse runs throughout. O yeh and some people have telekinetic abilities for some unknown reason.
As you can probably tell from my synopsis this film very loosely makes sense, it's a good thing then that it doesn't actually matter. You have to give the film certain artistic license before fully accepting it as a film and many great science fiction films follow this rule. This is a great film. Joseph Gordon Levitt is usually very good and does not disappoint here. Bruce is also on top form and proves that he can act and not only in shitty things such as G.I.Joe. The story whilst confusing works well and flows very nicely and grips you from the start. There is a slight problem with the film which is the addition of too much science fiction. In that I mean the film tries to focus on both the time travel and telekinesis mechanics and has to flitter its focus between the two without 100% explaining either. As I said before however if you can forgive this then you will enjoy the film very much, if not then get over it you only live once you miserable sod.
Verdict: 4.5/5
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