Another germ, from the monkeys behind this film

Rating: 1/10 (17 August 2005)

This "plot" verges on incomprehensibility, but is not brilliantly complex. It's OK though, since you really don't empathize with any of the characters anyway. When I watched the scientists from the future who force convicts into "volunteering" for deadly assignments break out into a chorus of "I found my thrill on blueberry hill" to Willis when he comes back from yet another time trek, all I could think about were all the morons who actually like to watch stuff like that. What time travel, the psychiatric world, and animals rights activists have in common is unexplained from start to end and each of these themes aren't explored and converged to produce anything stimulating. What's more is that nobody on this site or elsewhere can seem to explain that, or at least give a thoughtful, provocative, or at least more than superficial analysis of why this movie is any good. They're all the mindless sputtering clichés like, "what a masterpiece!," "Gilliam is a genius!," Brad Pitt is brilliant!" I did notice quite a few people who wrote that like many of Gilliam's films, this movie is actually more enjoyable to watch the second or third time around. Well, so are Freddy Got Fingered and Episode I, so I'd have to say this film is in good company. To know that this movie is in the Top 250 behind other forgettable "classics" such as Toy Story 2 and Eternal Sunshine is unf***ingbelievable. Thank you lowbrows for once again recommending another sigh-of-relief-once-it's-over movies.