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kahlid74:
I enjoyed the movie, I thought it was entertaining.  As for trying to rationalize time travel movies lol, it's kind of a crap shoot.

While young Joe shooting his hand off is a thought, the point of what young Joe had done up to that point should show you how nothing short of killing old Joe would stop him.  Old Joe was too far gone to realize the error of his ways.

As for the Mafia not wanting to kill young Seth before old Seth, I would have to assume it deals with how we see time travel, as in whether we view it as a tree and branches created off every incident within a timeline or as one continuous line that rights itself as events occur.  The idea would be that if you kill young while the old is still around, an entirely new branch of time is created and everything before that is invalidated.  Kind of like going back in time and killing your grandfather.  It's a paradox because you couldn't have killed your grandfather because you wouldn't exist but then because you didn't exist you grandfather lived.  To simplify that paradox they just said it was messy and left it at that.

As far as old Joe's wife being killed.  It was a huge inconsistency and I would expect that as the Rainbow Maker changed the timeline by him being created he was changing the future from a Government run world to a Mob run world.

AtomSmasher:
I really wanted to enjoy the movie and almost did, but the inconsistent time travel rules and various plot holes keep nagging at me.
One obvious problem is that the Rainmaker will likely still exist in the future.  In the original timeline, old Joe is killed immediately, which means the Rainmaker was still created when raised by his mother.
Another one is what caused the time stream to change, which allowed old Joe to do things differently the second time and survive getting sent back?  Assuming the original old joe (the one killed immediately after getting sent back) lived the same life that we saw young Joe live (we have no reason to assume otherwise), then why would things suddenly be different at the end of the 30 years?  We know the Rainmaker is still created in this timeline since his friends future self mentioned the Rainmaker, so why would anything be different?  There must have been some time travel event which changed the course of time during the 30 years after the original old joe was killed, but nothing like that was even hinted at (at least not as far as I remember).

I could go on, but in the end it's a fun movie as long as you don't think too much about it.

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