Hunted by your future, haunted by your past.

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.
Looper keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, Science Fiction
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Starship Troopers (1997)E12/E13 · Action, Science Fiction
Children of Men (2006)E12/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)E13 · Action, Science FictionOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Groundhog Day (1993)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous