Jack and I quite liked this well-crafted thriller about time travel in the near future, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing a young Bruce Willis, much the same way Josh Brolin played a young Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black III. Only here, in addition to imitating the voice, Gordon-Levitt's eyebrows and certain facial characteristics have been altered so that he resembles Willis. The acting (I last mentioned Gordon-Levitt in these pages in The Dark Knight Rises, Willis in Moonrise Kingdom) is first rate, with support from Emily Blunt (most recently Your Sister's Sister), Jeff Daniels (covered in Away We Go before he starred in the HBO series The Newsroom), Paul Dano (last in Ruby Sparks), an adorable little boy, Pierce Gagnon, and many more.
It's the third feature from director/writer Rian Johnson (I covered his second, The Brothers Bloom, in great detail) and, though none is in the hopper yet, I'm sure more are to come. This has fared well on rottentomatoes, with 93 from critics and 88 from audiences. Naturally, there are some veiled references to Back to the Future, just like in Men in Black III.
Nathan Johnson again composes the score for his cousin's movie and discusses some of his techniques in this video (confirming my guess that Rian is pronounced Ryan). I love this exciting track. Here is another. And here's a list of some of the songs used in the movie.
We saw this almost four weeks ago but it's still playing, having ranked 14 at the national box office last weekend. It has some gore, but if that doesn't bother you, you'll like it, too.
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