No, I never said that. I disliked Looper because its action wasn't very fun, original, or well-choreographed, its stylized look doesn't suit me, Levitt's prosthetics were distracting and unnecessary, and, to a lesser extent, its plot details that involved time travel were really dumb.

The time travel stuff is not my chief complaint, because the movie could have ultimately been enjoyable even with a stupid time travel foundation, in which case my previous comment would still be appropriate. I was merely responding to the claim (which is ridiculously common among critics) that Looper is a "smart" movie.

A friend of mine recently said about Looper: "The whole movie is broken when you take time to think about its logic. It's about a future where it's easier to send someone to the past than hide a body."

They at least try to explain that. Something about embedded chips that apparently are programmed to transmit an alert when the host dies, but if they completely disappear.everything is fine. But it's worse than that. Why risk sending future loopers back to themselves, rather than some random other looper? Then just deliver the gold to the correct young looper and tell him he can't work any more.