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Timecrimes (Los Cronocrímenes), Movie

Timecrimes (Los Cronocrímenes)

2007

Mode of Travel: Like a high-tech spa with a top that lowers on top of you once you’re in the water.

Reason for Travel: It’s a bit complicated, and part of the fun is not knowing the deets, but it boils down to being punished for being a peeping tom. A man named Hector (Karra Elejalde) spies on a naked girl with his binoculars and soon finds himself stabbed by a mysterious bandaged-head figure, and lured into a vat of liquid that takes him back an hour or so in time...

Overall Travel Experience: Fresh, narratively mindbending, yet tightly plotted, Nacho Vigalondo’s low-budget film gave the genre a much needed shot in the arm when it came out.

Looper is a sci-fi action tale about a hitman, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, hired to assassinate victims sent back in time. The film also stars Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels and is written and directed by Rian Johnson (director of Brick, The Brothers Bloom and TV's Breaking Bad).

In the near future the world has been introduced to time-travel, but it's deemed illegal and forced to operate through the black market. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a 'looper', a gun-for-hire whose targets are sent to him from the future. However, his lucrative career choice is put under question when he recognises a new hit as his future self (Bruce Willis).

Looper opens in cinemas on September 24.

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19th September 2012 Aaron Yap