Imagine a future America in which mobsters use time travel to zap anyone on their hit list back 30 years to 2044.
There an assassin, or looper, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), is waiting to blast his hooded, bound victim away with a sawed-off “blunderbuss” shotgun. And BOOM, just like that, the unlucky sap is gone with one thunderous shot — not only dead, but completely vanished from future, like he never existed, never to return.
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