Bruce Willis’ last big movie is this sweeping, sophisticated sci-fi flick coming to Netflix

Bruce Willis has spent a not very glorious last decade. His health problems and a very poor filmography means that we have to go back ten years to find one of his last great films. Is about ‘Looper‘, a considerably ambitious science fiction marvel, which today would be impossible to come across enjoying a standardized theatrical release, but which just arrived on netflix after a few years untraceable in streaming.

Although the starting point of what would be Rian Johnson’s jump to the high budget and, without a doubt, his entry ticket into the big leagues of the mainstream (directing ‘The Last Jedi’, increasingly vindicatable) is ‘Looper’ it has airs of series B of genre and it doesn’t take long to adopt flashes of a more calm and almost literary science-fiction. And all thanks to a daring starting idea, absolutely exciting characters and knowing how to take a magnificent concept to the last consequences.

‘Looper’ sends us to the future, to the year 2074. When organized crime there wants to kill someone and get rid of the body, they send the victim thirty years into the past, and a hitman executes him, making it impossible to trace the crime decades later. But one day, one of these assassins discovers that his bosses want to kill him with the same tactic, and he decides to escape by getting lost in the labyrinth of time travel.

Too many details cannot be given without spoiling more than necessary, although some nuances will be obvious to the attentive viewer (and seasoned in the genre): in any case, Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt make up a spectacular leading trio that gives all the emotional charge to a film that goes far beyond a mere fumbling with time machines. Seasoned with characters and typologies typical of good not to goand with a modest but very effective production design, ‘Looper’ is a film that must be (re)discovered, even if it is only as an elegy for a Willis who will not return (and a way of approaching science fiction that, possibly, will not return either). ).