You can figure that someone has made it in Hollywood when
they are in just about every movie you see. Three movies in the past week have
demonstrated this to me about Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Here are their mini-reviews:
I have watched the previous two Christian Bale/Christopher Nolan Batman movies and enjoyed them both. This one continues the Batman’s
story eight years later with us seeing an older Bruce Wayne who hasn’t been the
Batman in a while. We are also introduced to a new villain: Bane. Along the way
we meet an idealistic police officer, John Blake played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Selina Kyle (Catwoman) played by Anne Hathaway.
The best parts of the movie included Blake and Kyle (separately
as they don’t share screen time). They really delivered on their roles and the
result left me wanting an Anne Hathaway Catwoman movie and a sequel for Blake’s
character. The Dark Knight Rises does
run on a little long and you are annoyed with some of the plot twists as
everything has to go wrong before they can start going right again. I give
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anne Hathaway four Mick Happies and The Dark Knight Rises 3.5.
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This is the story of a bike messenger in New York, Wilee, played
by Joseph Gordon-Levitt who picks up a letter to deliver. The letter happens to
be of interest to a particularly nasty crooked police officer that spends the
movie trying to get it from Wilee. This is high adrenaline chase through New
York with thrills and spills. I fast forwarded a couple of the chase scenes,
but particularly liked the bicycle police office (not the crooked one) who runs
across Wilee several times and tries to catch him for causing an accident. It
gives some of the few comedic moments of the film.
Premium Rush is
fun and will have you on the edge of your seat at times. Michael Shannon, who
plays the bad guy, is particularly nasty at times (in a well acted way). Premium Rush gets 3 Mick Happies.
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I like Time Travel movies. Looper is a Time Travel movie where (in the future) some people are
hired by seedy underworld types to be Loopers. Loopers are assassins who kill
people sent back in time from the future by organized crime bosses. Since time
travel is outlawed, the Loopers eventually have to kill themselves when their
future selves are sent back in time to maintain the secret that time travel is
being used. The pay-off for doing it is a lot of money to live on for the next
30 years until they catch you and send you back in time to die. With me so far?
This somewhat interesting premise eventually devolves into
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character Joe meeting his future self and not closing
the loop (killing him). This leads to a must kill someone in the past to save
people in the future plot that is the second half of the movie. There are some
interesting questions posed by the film: would you take a rich life now knowing
you have to die in 30 years? If you met yourself from the future – would you
care more about your current needs or listen to your future self about what is
the best thing to do?
I would have liked a different plot to the second half of
the movie and thus a different ending, but the movie is okay as is. Joseph
Gordon-Levitt does a really good impersonation of a younger Bruce Willis
including some of the right facial quirks. The movie also stars Emily Blunt. Looper gets 3 Mick Happies.
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