'Looper' Review Thread (Use Spoiler Tags)

[Walts Ghost]

Originally Posted by lemonski

So what you're telling me is Bruce Willis, who has

[Show spoiler] singlehandedly mown down a complete army of goons 10 minutes earlier is somehow not going to be able to chase down a 10 year old boy and kill him?

But

[Show spoiler] JGL knows he doesn't go on to better stuff - in fact he literally says this to the mother 5 minutes earlier. So in the face of all hard evidence to the contrary - like his future self explicitly telling him how Cid turns out - he decides to let "fate" take its course, and *kill himself*. Despite throughout the rest of the film he is all about self-preservation (he even rats out his best friend) and selfishness, yet in the last 5 minutes the farm girl shags him and his character does a complete, illogical 180, just to service the ending. I hate that kind of fraudulent screenwriting.

You're looking for reasons to complain. It's blatantly spelled out for us why what happens does. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's illogical.

[Show spoiler]The kid was already running, and we see that there's no way he hit the kid, because the mother is standing right in the path for the bullet. That means the kid runs, Willis never catches him, and the kid slowly descends into his hellish and overlord ruling as "The Rainmaker". But Young Joe, who's actions have been purely selfish, realizes that because of his future selfs selfish desires, that this is why this all happens. If he kills himself before any of this happens, then the future is a better place and Cid never becomes the Rainmaker. He realizes everything he is doing isn't right. Not to mention, the blatant mother issues he has, where he's talking about missing her. He's not going to take another kid's mother away from him. Joe just realized what the best outcome for the future was, and that was one without himself. He ends the loop, and everything turns out better. It makes plenty of sense.