Welcome back to Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2012 American science fiction
action-thriller film called, Looper. Spoilers ahead. Sit back, relax and enjoy the video.
The movie begins with Joe holding his compass clock as he waits for the person sent back from
another time. While waiting, the clock finally ticks, and Joe prepares his gat,
a futuristic "blunderbuss" shotgun used for assassinations. Afterward, Joe immediately shoots
the man right after appearing in front of him. Joe then cuts the cloth at the back of the man's
body to collect the silver bars as payment. In 2044, Joe works for a Kansas City crime
syndicate as an assassin or "looper." Loopers are the men who kill and dispose of victims
whose faces are concealed. And these victims are the ones who survive in 2074
and are destined to be sent back in time as their younger selves execute them.
They kill future selves because the tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly
impossible to dispose of bodies undetected. And the only possible thing to do is execute
them by time travel. In this case, it can close their loop. In addition, this crime syndicate
is managed by a man from the future named Abe. Later, Joe walks himself inside a diner to have
his coffee. Afterward, he drives his car on the way to a shop to buy a new pack of 'jeds'
for his gat. As he drops the two silver bars for payment, the man gives the jeds as an exchange.
A while later, Joe finds Seth in an alley, who's having a troubled time with his new
slat bike because it won't start. So, Joe offers him a ride as they head to La Belle Aurore bar.
Then, a few minutes later, they enter the back door to visit Suzie.
But unfortunately, Suzie tells him she's busy at work, so Joe meets up with his co-loopers instead.
After, Joe suddenly wakes up from his sleep because of the continuous knocks
on his glass window. Joe then goes directly to where the noise comes from and opens it.
To his surprise, he sees a panicking Seth entering his apartment as he confesses about his failed
assignment. While Joe's listening, he finds out that Seth didn't kill his future self.
Because the Old Seth warns him about a person in the future called the Rainmaker.
And that this person will overthrow the five major bosses and close all loops.
Afterward, Joe and Seth hear a loud thud from his door, only to find out that it's Abe's elite "Gat
Men" that want to capture Seth. So, Seth begs Joe to help and hide him. Hesitating, Joe opens his
apartment's floor safe and reluctantly hides Seth from the Gat Men. Afterward, Joe opens his door,
and Kid Blue aggressively enters while pointing out his gat to find any trace of Seth.
Unfortunately, he fails. Kid Blue then tells Joe that he will talk
with Abe while his men guard his apartment. Later, Joe goes to Abe's headquarters. As
they begin talking, Abe threatens to confiscate half of the silver bars that Joe saves inside his
apartment if he doesn't tell Seth's whereabouts. At first, Joe hesitates to tell the truth but
later on reveals Seth's location for his reason of wanting to travel to France in the future.
So, technically, Joe chooses to save his silver bars rather than valuing his friendship with Seth.
Abe's elite "Gat Men" immediately walks out of the headquarters to capture Seth in Joe's apartment.
Seconds later, they finally arrest Seth. Then they mercilessly cut an address into his arms
and sever his body parts. Meanwhile, these effects suddenly appear on Old Seth's body,
so instead of escaping, the Old Seth goes to the tattooed address on his arm.
Unfortunately, Kid Blue suddenly shoots him right after arriving in the said area.
Feeling inadequate to himself, Joe shares the story about his friend's death to Suzie.
He admits that he lets Seth get killed for silver. Joe even tells Suzie that he will
give half of his silver bars to escape the city and go somewhere else with him.
Yet, Suzie refuses his offer and says she doesn't need it because
she already has a job to sustain her needs. Unfortunately, Suzie rejects having Joe's
baby and living with him for the rest of her life. The following day, Joe arrives in his target area.
Afterward, he waits for his compass clock to tick as he prepares himself for his next target.
Suddenly, Joe finds out that it is his older self, but his face is uncovered and hands unbound.
To his surprise, he immediately shoots Old Joe, yet he fails to kill him as the Old Joe throws a
gold bar to his head and beats him out to escape. A while later, Joe wakes from unconsciousness and
sees a letter taped on his shirt saying, "hop a train out of town and RUN." Yet, Joe ignores it
and quickly returns to his apartment. A while later, Joe arrives at his apartment,
only to find out that the Gat Men are ransacking his apartment's floor safe and looking for his
silver bars. So, Joe swiftly runs toward the location and starts fighting with Kid
Blue by trapping him inside the floor safe. Afterward, he deals with the rest of the Gat
Men as he tries to escape. But he suddenly falls off a fire escape and blacks out.
In another timeline, Joe does kill his older self. Using the silver bars he saved on his slog from
the crime syndicate, he takes Abe's suggestion to move to Shanghai. Then, after migrating, Joe
becomes a hitman to finance his drug addiction and wild lifestyle. Since Joe's running out of bars,
he chooses to be violent to survive. Eventually, he meets the love of his life
and marries her. Because of his wife's help, Joe breaks his addiction to drugs and changes himself.
But then, seven years later, a sudden event occurs where captors trespass their house
and kill Joe's wife. Afterward, they capture Joe to close the loop.
Upon their arrival, Joe manages to overpower his captors and sends himself back to 2044. He then
begins his plan by altering his history and evading young Joe to escape with him.
Going back to the year 2044, old Joe experiences vague memories of Joe's actions in the present.
He feels like whenever young Joe is getting hurt, so does he.
Later, Old Joe buys himself a medicine pack in a convenience store. Afterward, he finds Joe going
back to his apartment. Without any choice, Old Joe saves his younger self from getting killed. Then,
Old Joe kills the last Gat Men and curses Joe for his unwise moves. Meanwhile, Abe and his elite Gat
Men plan to capture the Old and Young Joe. On the other hand, Old Joe searches the
numbers written on his hands using a local library's advanced computer.
Afterward, he prints the location of three babies that he suspects as the Rainmaker.
The following day, Old Joe meets his younger self at a diner. Afterward, he sits at the
table to talk to his younger self. While feeling the intensity of each other, a young lady arrives
and asks for their food. Afterward, Old Joe begins sharing his knowledge about the future with Joe.
After that, he tells his plan to alter history again by killing the Rainmaker as a child.
By that, Old Joe will save his wife from death. As Joe listens, he sees a map from
Old Joe that he takes out from his pocket. The map acquires the identities of the Rainmaker.
However, Joe begs to disagree with Old Joe's plans. Then he finds out that Old
Joe desperately wants to do it because he wishes to save his wife from the future. As the intensity
gets higher between them, Joe says it may be a complicated situation for him, but they both
know that it has to go down. And that he can't let Old Joe walk away from the diner alive.
Old Joe then dares to take his gun out to take his life. But Joe ignores to follow his dare
and continues hearing more words from Old Joe. Later, Joe finds out that Old Joe's wife gets
killed by the captors. But then he says that none of his situations concerns him. So, Older
Joe says that it's going to happen to him, yet Joe interrupts him and says that Joe will marry
another woman so that it won't happen to him. Joe even asks to see her pictures to ensure he won't
meet that woman, but Old Joe refuses to follow his favor. Eventually, Joe triggers him more
until they both ensue a gunfight inside the diner. As the gunfight ensues, Kid Blue and the Gat Men
appear. Eventually, they target Old Joe but fail to capture him after running through the field.
Afterward, Kid Blue realizes that they also need to catch Joe. So, Kid Blue runs and tries to get
him, but Joe also escapes. Fortunately, both Joes escape with pieces of the map.
Later, Joe follows the location from the map until he finds himself on a farm where a woman named
Sara lives with her young son, Cid. Meanwhile, Sara suddenly hears an unusual
noise outside her house, so she stops cooking and fixes her door. As she closes the door in
her kitchen, Sara sees Joe outside. Sara grabs her shotgun beside her and threatens Joe to go
off the shrubs without hesitation. But Joe refuses to show his face and hides inside.
Evening comes, and Joe feels that he needs to withdraw, but he tries to calm and prevent himself
from collapsing. But then, he suddenly sees Sara outside holding a shotgun and is about to
shoot a man. Joe thinks that Sara's in trouble. So, giving him no choice, Joe saves Sara from
getting in trouble with a beggar who seeks food. Afterward, Joe throws up while Sara slaps him
to get in his senses. Sara then asks him when was the last day of his withdrawal. After that,
she gives Joe water to freshen up. Meanwhile, Cid finds out that there's a man outside their house.
The following day, Joe finds himself getting handcuffed after waking up. Then Cid, on the other
hand, informs Sara that he's awake. So, instead of preparing for their breakfast, Sara immediately
walks out and checks Joe in the barn while she's holding a shotgun. Afterward, Sara gives Joe the
key to uncuff himself. However, Joe refuses to leave her farm and gives Sara the map. Sara then
grabs the paper and reads it, only to recognize that the numbers on the map are Cid's birthday and
the location of the hospital where he was born. Without hesitation, Sara shoots Joe two times.
As Sara loads her ammo, she asks Joe about his intention. Joe then says that time travel
isn't invented yet, but in thirty years, it will be used by big criminal syndicates.
Sara, who's listening, interrupts Joe. She guesses Joe is a looper, and Joe agrees.
As Sara calms down, Joe tells his guess that Old Joe will kill all three children born at
that hospital on the same day, not knowing which one will become the Rainmaker. Then
Joe continues explaining that once Old Joe killed the Rainmaker, he never would have
been sent back and that he'd vanish while getting back with his wife from the future.
Meanwhile, Old Joe mercilessly shoots his first suspect outside his house. Afterward,
he suddenly cries after killing an innocent child. Days after, Joe keeps his word to protect Sara
and Cid while waiting for Old Joe's arrival. Joe then realizes that his relationship with
Cid is getting closer, and he feels that Cid's getting more comfortable with him. Eventually,
Cid confesses to Joe that he knows what happened to his biological mom, and Sara lies to him.
The following day, Jesse, a Gat Man, comes to the farm. He tries to enter her house by asking
for some water and her family members living in the house. Without a choice,
Sara follows his favor and talks to him afterward. Meanwhile, Cid and Joe successfully
hide using Cid's grandfather's tunnel. Later that night, Sara and Joe begin
coupling as Sara finally reveals that she has above-average telekinetic powers.
By that, she means that even Cid adopted the power through genes. Technically, Sara is the
sister of Cid's biological mom, and she knows how to control Cid's abilities to prevent using it.
Sara's trying to get Cid out of trouble because his powers are even more potent than her.
Joe wakes up and suddenly finds Jesse holding Sara at gunpoint in the morning. Afterward, Joe tries
to talk in peace with Jesse to release Sara, but Jesse accidentally points out the gun to Cid right
after seeing him upstairs. Cid then suddenly falls downstairs, and Joe tries to catch him. However,
Cid only receives a minor injury. Terrified, Cid kills Jesse using telekinesis while Sara
pushes Joe to go outside and save themselves. After, Joe realizes that Cid will become the
Rainmaker and that Old Joe will know about it. As Joe shouts, Sara explains everything
to him, but Joe pushes her and asks if Cid is the one who killed her sister.
Suddenly, Sara starts panicking because she doesn't want Cid to be killed. Sara then explains
that Cid was climbing a bookshelf and fell. And after that, Cid gets scared and explodes,
killing his mom because of his uncontrollable powers.
Convinced, Joe tells Sara to go to the city with Cid as soon as possible before Old Joe finds them.
Meanwhile, Kid Blue captures Old Joe and takes him to Abe. However, Old Joe breaks free upon
their arrival at Abe's headquarter. Old Joe then becomes aggressive and kills Abe and his henchmen.
After, Old Joe goes to Sara's farm to kill Cid. But little does Old Joe knows, Kid Blue escapes
from the headquarters and follows him. And despite being shot on his right leg, Kid Blue still drives
the slat bike to kill both Joes. However, he fails to kill them as Joe manages to kill him first.
The movie ends with Old Joe catching Sara and Cid on the road. Panicking, Sara quickly orders
Cid to run while Joe is still far from them. While running, Joe begins shooting them as he runs, too.
Unfortunately, Cid witnesses Sara getting shot, so Cid suddenly stops running and walks towards her.
And when a bullet grazes Cid's face, he abruptly activates his powers again,
but before he can react, Sara immediately calms him down.
Sara fears Cid's reaction because he might kill her as well. So, Sara sends Cid into
a cane field as she positions herself to block Old Joe's line of fire. Then, on the other hand,
Joe sees them from afar and realizes that Cid will become the Rainmaker if Old Joe kills Sara.
So, to end everything, Joe commits suicide by shooting himself to erase Old Joe's existence.
Luckily, Joe saves Sara and prevents Cid from becoming the Rainmaker.