I'm so shocked this garbage is so highly praised

Rating: 2/10 (30 March 2010)

I tend to hate big Hollywood movies cause they are garbage, and this one was a perfect example...I honestly had no idea it would be in IMDb's top 250.
Willis plays a man in an underground post apocalyptic future and hes sent back in the past to try to find out information about the group of people responsible. He goes back and ends up in the wrong place, or perhaps wrong time. Then a bunch of crap happens and I paid attention but was so bored I didn't really care.
I was making mental notes as I watched to kill boredom. I was thinking it had some great set designs. I was thinking that Bruce Willis had no hair, but yet he looked older than usual. I was thinking the acting was great and Brad Pitt actually did a great job for a change, he's usually so boring. I also was thinking the music was not at all fitting.
Terry Gilliam has directed a few movies I like and he did a good job here with 12 monkeys, not a great job just a good one. Not his best work as a director, and its sad cause he could've done so much to add character to this dull film.
I like many sci-fi films, but this one was a bit too crazy for me, We knew the future, he claimed it couldn't be changed, yet he seemed to fight to save it. It has all kinds of tie-ins from the future and the past and they try to make it seem surprising, but its kind of like they are treating the viewers like idiots. I mean we all get where the film is going from the first 10 minutes....
Such a let down, I was not thrilled, I was not shocked, I was not excited...I was bored...really damn bored!