A very strong, wholly original film with a terrific first third and a pretty good final act.
What Works: From start to finish, this movie is showing you inventive, wildly original things you haven’t quite seen before. I particularly loved the first third of it, which keeps constantly inventing and playing with the rules in its highly original world. [Loved the sequence that shows what Bruce Willis has been up to in the thirty years between him and his younger self.] And Joseph Gordon Levitt delivers a subtly great performance, not merely mimicking Bruce Willis but really trying to embody what he might be like younger.
What Doesn’t Work: When Emily Blunt (as a single mom farmer the lead runs into while on the run) shows up, the movie’s energy dips a little bit. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I would say I enjoyed the first third more than the ending.
What I Would Have Done Differently: Who can nitpick with a movie this original, playful, fun, and exciting? This is the type of high-concept thriller Hollywood should have been delivering all summer long.
You actually changed my mind about this movie, it has moved up from, “Nope” to “Maybe”