2. Looper (2012)
Rian Johnson's third feature film, following Brick and The Brothers Bloom. Brick itself was a masterpiece and The Brothers Bloom was well worth the hour and forty-five minute bus ride I took into Manhattan to track down a theater that was showing it. Looper, however, is a whole different breed of movie. It's on another level. Looper stars Joseph Gordon Levitt and Bruce Willis, playing the same character. When the mob in the future wants to whack somebody they send them back into time to a Looper who will kill the forced time traveler and dispose of their body. It really hits the fan when Joseph Gordon Levitt's future self, Bruce Willis, is sent back in time so that his younger self can murder him. That sentence was difficult to type. The movie paces really well with a really dark and serious tone. I saw this movie three times in the theater and then an uncountable amount of times after I had purchased it on DVD and you would expect that eventually it would get played out but no, not Looper. This movie is consistently enjoyable every time I watch it.