Looper

Joseph Gordon Levitt + Bruce Willis impressions + science fiction = ???
Set in the not too distant future, the scary kind where things just crappy enough to feel believable, Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Joe, a Looper.  Loopers serve as the trash collectors for the future mob, who pretty much run everything in the far future.  Since it's impossible to kill people in the far future (how the mob controls everything but still can't cap a guy is never explained), they do the next best thing: send people back in time where the Looper can kill them and dispose of the body with no one the wiser.  Thing is, after a while, every Looper has to close his own loop, i.e., kill their future self.  And if you can't bring yourself to murder the older version of you...well, let's just say that I wouldn't want to be Paul Dano's character in this film.

The story really kicks into high gear when Joe fails to close his Loop, allowing future Joe (Bruce Willis) to run free in the past, pursuing his own agenda to fix the future.  Thus begins a series of chases: past Joe chasing future Joe, future Joe chasing his own, secret quest, and the mob chasing both Joes.  I came into this one interested in checking out the well-crafted future world and the awesome premise with the happy accident that this is a pretty kick-ass action film; however, while the action scenes are good, it's the development of each character that truly entertains and raises many questions.  Is changing the past for selfish reasons ever a good thing? Is happiness now more important than happiness later? Are we doomed to replay the same events throughout our lives? What events define our lives? Does a blunderbuss beat a six-shooter?

Bruce Willis may be getting old...but he kills a lot of people anyway

Looper is good science-fiction, set clearly in a time not our own but tackling subjects relevant to the present.  It is slightly unsettling in some of its imagery and in the lengths it is willing to go to tell its story.  Gordon-Levitt pulls off an uncanny Moonlighting-era Bruce Willis, doofy smirk and all, and Emily Blunt is the least British I've ever seen her.  The creepy, little kid in it is even a great actor! Sure, some of the plot points might be pulled from the first Terminator and some twists aren't as twisty as the movie thinks they are, but everything all goes together so well that I wasn't really bothered.  It's hard to get into too much of what makes the movie so entertaining without spoiling points that could diminish your enjoyment.  If the central premise sounds interesting, you'll probably leave Looper feeling Really Good.