Last week, I reviewed Anna Karenina.  This week it's Looper.  Let's face it, you don't expect a Bruce Willis film to be sensitive or intellectual.  What you go to see is wham-bam action, witty one-liners and (if you're lucky) clever plot twists.  Looper had the first, but was rather short on the rest.
The plot puts a new spin on the Sci Fi time-travel cliché about someone returning to the past and being killed by their younger self, and the way Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as the young Bruce Willis character, finally resolves his dilemma was a surprise, but much of the story was predictable.  The attempts to make Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like Bruce Willis made him appear more like a computer game animation instead.  In fact, the whole film would probably have been better as a computer game.  Even in an action movie you expect some of the characters to be likeable.  Sadly, it was hard to care whether any of the characters in Looper survived or not.
Looper proved yet again that if you want to make a good film, you need to start with a well-crafted script and three-dimensional characters who are true to life, even if the situations they're in are impossible.