Looper is a 2012 American Science Fiction thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a man named Joseph Simmons.

A page for describing Characters: Looper. Anti-Hero: Young Joe is a Nominal Hero at the start of the movie. He's (mostly) self-centered, has no qualms …

The "Young" Joe from the year 2044 is a "Looper": an assassin who executes victims sent to him from the future. Upon the arrival of his future self, Joe is ...

The Looper business model. You're young and your prospects are limited. Working as a looper is high-paying, easy work in a Crapsack World.

A page for describing Headscratchers: Looper. Kinda an old movie by now, but didn't Joe have so many opportunities to avert the future?

Real Life Writes the Plot: The film-makers initially planned to have Joe travel to Paris. They changed it to Shanghai after Chinese investors offered them money ...

He holds a grudge against the Loopers for 30 years. He takes over the crime world, including the Loopers. Then he closes all the loops. Not just for revenge, ...

After Old Joe kills off a massive number of mobsters, he hears someone running (loudly, for more than ten seconds) to investigate the noise and shoots him.

Young Joe reaches for his gun, only for Old Joe to deliver a Groin Attack and knock him out with one punch. A Dying Moment of Awesome, but the ending.

"This time travel crap just fries your brain like an egg." Jeff Daniels, Looper. —Tiny Ted Danson. A hitman named Joe Is both hero and villain