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Twelve Monkeys
It looks like a story of a different kind. It is about 2035, where a virus has killed most of the inhabitants of the earth and the rest lives underground because the air is toxic. On the other hand, prisoner James Cole will undergo an important experiment in order to obtain release from that place. It seems that the only condition for James to come out is that if he agrees to return in time and gather information about a man-made virus and protect the world from that virus.
22 June 1974, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
23 March 1926, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
5 March 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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
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.
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.
March 04, 2011
Gilliam's greatest all around film.
August 16, 2011
Terry Gilliam has seldom been more inventive or more compelling.
December 19, 2012
One of the best-looking and smartest sci-fi films of the modern era.
March 26, 2009
Neither as visually compelling as Brazil nor as emotionally gripping as The Fisher King.
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.
June 24, 2006
Gilliam gives the material a lunatic poetry of his own, but remains impervious to the requirements of narrative pacing.
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 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.
August 06, 2014
Constantly surprising and consistently unsettling.