tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994611754641190512.post2034169327764363553..comments2021-10-17T12:56:53.727-07:00Comments on The Watchers Film Show Blog: Review: Looper (UK Cert 15)The Watchershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01914990484385740789noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994611754641190512.post-37940642491233955692012-10-15T04:17:52.901-07:002012-10-15T04:17:52.901-07:00ok! Keep improving? How interesting! Ill break it ...ok! Keep improving? How interesting! Ill break it down with more detail for you?<br /><br />The film is a mess. It has a strong start, a middle act that has far to many cleches - like a single strong willed mother who befriends a orphan hitman! The child is possibly the most annoying child actor to grace the screen in decades. The twist involving the telepathic skills of this child - to be honest is not a twist. The film spent far to much time giving any real movie fan to much time to spot the flag poles from which this twist was rising from. <br /><br />Then we have the ending - Willis is killed before he can kill the child, but its Levitt who shoots himself to do this - thus killing his future self. Right! <br /><br />If he kills himself and the future him no longer exist - then he wouldn't be stood in that field at that time to shoot himself in the first place. Time would be re-written? Or a paradox imploding the universe! <br /><br />I love Bruce Willis - I love him, but bless him his performance here was shocking. under played to the part of being non-acting. Levitt I find as a very interesting character actor - but playing a young Bruce Willis is a case of miss casting - he is not the actor to be Willis JR?<br />He just doesn't have the charisma to be him! <br /><br />I'm a absolute massive Sci Fi fan -which is probably why I disliked this film so much, It failed to be anything new or break any new ground.<br />The films style pallet is ripped off straight out of the Matrix, Blade Runner and Space 1999. The films direction has hints of wanting to be a new Blade Runner -especially with the lazy scripts use of inner monologue all the time, which by the way is the main reason I was waiting for the telepathic element to return as a twist.<br />The film irritated me - because it could of been amazing, it should of been amazing. Instead we have just another forgettable film - just as The Source Code was.<br /><br />RhysThe Watchershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914990484385740789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994611754641190512.post-320825083324314082012-10-13T07:01:23.487-07:002012-10-13T07:01:23.487-07:00Usually I feel like protecting something you love ...Usually I feel like protecting something you love to somebody who hates it is pointless but I do want to give you some pointers on the point of writing a review without actually defending Looper.<br /><br />Criticism is a rough thing to pull off without sounding like somebody who just likes to say bad things. I get the fact that without spoiling the movie it is difficult to express the dislike but I would appreciate more content behind your facts. You state it's a mess - on which level? Is it a plot matter or editing, is it coherence or is it a matter of taste? Because based on this, I could just think that you hate sci-fi and this is why you rate it so slow. <br />Your rant about the actors and their bad performance just sounds as if you don't like them, yet you do not put your personal opinions on them into the review. As a blogger and as a reader, I would appreciate more explanation and that is not just based on this review.<br /><br />Good luck and keep improving! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994611754641190512.post-12454495848442669842012-10-11T02:27:23.560-07:002012-10-11T02:27:23.560-07:00Yeah agree - the film just fell apart after about ...Yeah agree - the film just fell apart after about half way and never lived up to the world and the plot it began! shame. RhysThe Watchershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01914990484385740789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994611754641190512.post-63109991497250492422012-10-10T14:34:27.595-07:002012-10-10T14:34:27.595-07:00Nice review Rhys. The writing and directing are in...Nice review Rhys. The writing and directing are in top-notch form where everything keeps you riveted and compelled, but there was that certain element of human-drama that just seemed to be missing. I don’t know where it went or why it didn’t come to me, but it just didn’t and made me feel like I was missing out on something in the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com