Violent Netflix Sci-Fi Thriller Is A Time Travel Modern Classic

Thus, time-traveling targets are dispatched by assassins whose interaction with time travel is simply to perform hits. Undertaking these assassinations are the “Loopers”—hitmen like Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character, Joe.

In a terrific, fascinating nuance enriching this streaming title, murderers-for-hire like Joe are eventually assigned quite the job: killing their future selves and thus sealing the “loop.”

If this weren’t heady enough, the Looper plot intensifies when older Joe (played superbly by Bruce Willis) finds himself in the crosshairs of Young Joe, who recognizes his target.

This enormous dilemma motivates a series of developments engagingly blending action and existential philosophy, all of which are a credit to John’s scriptwriting and world-building.