Looper (2012)

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In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination. Wikipedia ↗

Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action thriller written and directed by Rian Johnson. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Joe, a "looper" — a hitman in 2044 Kansas who executes targets sent back from the year 2074, where time travel has been invented and immediately outlawed, used exclusively by criminal organizations to dispose of bodies. When Joe's future self, played by Bruce Willis, is sent back for elimination and escapes, young Joe must hunt down his older self while old Joe pursues a mission to prevent a future catastrophe by killing a child who will one day become a devastating crime lord.

Rian Johnson created one of the most inventive and emotionally complex time travel films since Twelve Monkeys, using the genre's paradoxes not as puzzles to be solved but as frameworks for exploring themes of violence, sacrifice, and whether the future can be changed. Joseph Gordon-Levitt wore subtle prosthetic makeup to suggest Bruce Willis's features, and his physical imitation of Willis's mannerisms was impressively committed. The film's rural second act, set on a Kansas farm where young Joe hides out with a mother and child played by Emily Blunt and Pierce Gagnon, shifted the tone from noir thriller to something more contemplative and emotionally resonant.

Looper earned $176 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.