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.
Thriller, Science Fiction, Action
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Meeting his future self and attempting to change the events that produce him drive Joe's conflict.
Criminal organizations use future time-travel technology to send embodied victims to killers in the past; a causal paradox is not a repeating-day mechanism.
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
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Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
13 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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4K UHD
Looper 4K (2012)
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Release date
Feb 15, 2022
Studio
Sony Pictures
Resolution
Upscaled 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free | 2K Blu-ray: Region A
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Two-disc set (1 BD-66, 1 BD-50)