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Twelve Monkeys
It is those events that caused great controversy in 2035. This story tells of a virus that will kill most of the inhabitants of the earth and the rest live underground because the air is toxic. Now, prisoner James Cole can get parole if he agrees to return in time and gather information about a man-made virus and foil the devastating plague before it's too late.
24 August 1953, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
11 April 1952, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 March 1926, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
25 August 1947, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA
9 April 1952, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
9 September 1938, San Francisco, California, USA
19 October 1951, Brooklyn, New York, USA
27 July 1950, Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England, UK
5 April 1933, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
August 16, 2011
Terry Gilliam has seldom been more inventive or more compelling.
March 02, 2011
speculative fiction at its best in that it doesn't just trifle with science fiction concepts, but rather tells a grander story with characters and world disasters
March 04, 2011
Gilliam's greatest all around film.
August 06, 2014
Constantly surprising and consistently unsettling.
May 27, 2011
Gilliam goes on to deliver a movie that is not only rich in visual detail but offers an involving, occasionally baffling storyline and builds the tension to positively unbearable levels during the final reel.
August 12, 2005
Dark and somber like Blade Runner, this sci-fi is a spectacular mess, a convoluted film with too many ideas for its own good, blending (among other things) the virus thriller with the post-apocalyptic genre.
December 19, 2012
One of the best-looking and smartest sci-fi films of the modern era.
May 27, 2011
While all of Gilliam's movies are worth seeing, there's a fair amount of his designer grimness here mixed in with the cabaret comedy.
May 20, 2003
There's always overripe method to his madness, but in the new 12 Monkeys Mr. Gilliam's methods are uncommonly wrenching and strong.
May 12, 2001
Bruce Willis, in an eruptive performance of startling emotional intensity, stars as Cole, a prisoner tagged for an experiment that may get him killed.
June 24, 2006
Gilliam gives the material a lunatic poetry of his own, but remains impervious to the requirements of narrative pacing.
March 26, 2009
Neither as visually compelling as Brazil nor as emotionally gripping as The Fisher King.
