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Fortunately, they did it the easy way. Not a problem keeping up with two guys who are the same separated by 30 years. One is trying to preserve his present and the other his future.
Levitt plays a young Willis who makes really good money in 2044 by blasting mob hits sent through time so they will never be discovered. He likes his job until it comes time to "close his loop". This means you end up killing yourself, getting a gold bars payday, and 30 more years to live. When he, himself, comes back for a quick blasting trouble starts. Willis decides he must preserve his future by finding and offing the mob boss in the past, er, Levitt's present. Lots of people killed in this one but the story wouldn't work without the brutality.
Great cine, good story, good performances, and the usual "I would rather be dead than live in that kind of future" atmosphere.
I'm not jumping up and down about this one it's just high budget popcorn.
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...it's the 2044 and Willis is playing what looks like a Micro-Seiki turntable in a couple of scenes.
Bruce Willis has a couple of other memorable time travel films - 12 Monkeys and The Kid (where a 7 year old version of him shows up).
...is, I believe, a Michell GyroDec.
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Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." Albert Einstei
...but I'm a sucker for time travel and they did a very good job here without much in the way of unexplainable paradoxes.
Very well done - good characters, good acting and good script.
What more can you ask for?
I'd give it a solid B.
Well, no. It was doing OK in this department until the end.
The end turned it into the same old time travel paradox.
The final act of violence made the whole movie, from the entrance of Old Dude, disappear from reality.
Thus, the sequence of events leading to the final act of violence never happened and this final act of violence never happens.
But in this case, Old Dude shows up again and again the final act of violence occurs.
It is insoluble and is the classic time travel paradox. I was a bit disappointed since they kept it pretty reasonable up to this...but any logic goes up in smoke with the ending.
I did quite enjoy the movie, illogical though it became.
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