Twelve Monkeys (1995)

For so long watching a modern and future World filled with old industrial settings, you get the feeling it's trying too hard to be Orwellian. The care in the community centre of 1990 looks like an asylum from 2 or 3 decades previously. The future World isn't even a joke it's so awfully caricatured. I give it 4 as Arnie in Terminator showed his bum once, Bruce gets to do it 3 times until I stopped watching. It's stupid nonsense getting away with Sci - Fi label.

Let me start by saying that I am not a huge Terry Gilliam fan. Honestly most of his films I could do without. But I sort of saw this one by accident and I must say I am glad I did.Twelve Monkeys wasn't so much good on account of the story. I suppose it was unique enough and original enough to keep me entertained. In many ways it was similar to other science fiction films of past and present but there were some aspects of the story that I had not seen before, which was nice. But the best thing about the film was Bruce Willis.Let me clarify. I am not a huge Bruce Willis fan by any means. I like him in some things and dislike him in others. But the thing that made this role so good for him was that it allowed him to branch out. People, this is Bruce Willis like you have never seen him before. He is believable in the role and he makes the film worth watching. It is a completely different character for him and I think you will like it a lot.

Like most time traveler movies, there are several paradoxes where the traveler literally "meets himself coming and going". Some are in the form of flashbacks and flash-forwards. An old picture from a World War One history book. The feeling (by several characters) that they have "been there" before. Like "Kpax" the "hero" (Bruce Willis) is thought insane, so much so that he begins to doubt his own sanity. He is from the future but has no gadgets and arrives almost naked. He is yanked back and forth through time and is "volunteered" to try and stop a madman from releasing a plague that destroys 90% of the Earth's population. It's haunting, but not really enjoyable as we all know that "you can't change the future", or so we are told. He witnesses his own death though the eyes of a child is the only "clue" I will give you. I didn't really like it. Rated up as "8" due to apocalyptic views of the future, with great set decoration.

I hated 12 Monkeys!!! I watched 2 hours of this crap and throughout it all there was NO resolution. Nothing!! Just some retard travelling through time to find out the source of the humanity's near extinction and ending with NOTHING!!! And all of you think this is such a brilliant film. Pssssshhhhh!!! Ha! The only thing this movie has going for it is the acting performances of Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis and that seems to be one of the highest consensus as to why this film is liked. I also liked some of the technological aspects of the movie as well. But the story, conception and plot is abysmal and the pacing is slow as hell. And I don't exactly get the message this movie is trying to bring, if there is any. 12 Monkeys is worthless in every way possible. 129 minutes of bull$#!+ with an idiotic conclusion. Blow my butt.