"The best thing about it is the Italian title: E gia ieri (It's Already Yesterday). It's Groundhog Day. Again. Except now the repeated days lose an hour with each revolution, introducing a crucial flicker of urgency. A Spanish holiday becomes agonisingly protracted for Alba (Iria del Rio), who uses the loop in which she finds herself stuck to maximise her life, starting with ditching the boyfriend who was about to dump her."
"Inserted into the mind of a man who perished in a bomb blast on a train, Jake Gyllenhaal must relive repeatedly the eight minutes before the explosion until he discovers the bomber's identity. Some nice in-jokes (Scott Bakula, star of the time-travel series Quantum Leap, has a voice cameo; a ringtone plays Chesney Hawkes's The One and Only) can't disguise the fact that suspense tends to suffer when the world can be endlessly rebooted."
"One of the pitfalls of the time-loop movie as thriller rather than comedy is that exposition can easily overwhelm characterisation. That's the case in Rian Johnson's futuristic fantasy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as two iterations of the same looper that is, a hitman paid to kill and dispose of enemies sent back in time by a crime syndicate."
An Italian-Spanish Groundhog Day remake centers on a cynical nature presenter repeating the same 24 hours while reporting on a Canary Islands stork colony; each loop loses an hour, adding urgency as Alba (Iria del Rio) exploits repeats to maximise her life, beginning by ditching a boyfriend who was about to dump her. Source Code inserts a man who perished in a train bomb into another's mind to relive the eight minutes before the blast until the bomber is found, though repeated reboots blunt suspense despite playful in-jokes. Looper uses time-loop mechanics in a futuristic hitman thriller, where exposition sometimes overwhelms characterization.
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