As If Made by Monkeys

Rating: 3/10 (31 March 2019)

When a film features time travel or mental illness - two things where almost anything can happen - you need a tight plot and some careful editing to keep the viewer truly engaged. Trying to figure out the plot's mystery and trying to figure out WTH is going on are two different things. Terry Gllliam is doing what he does, but only fans attuned to his ways will "get" this film.
Plot is semi-Terminator: someone is sent back from the future to prevent a catastrophe from happening. Well, not prevent, but just cure things after 99% of the population is dead. Why they aren't trying to stop the virus from happening instead of curing it later is never explained? (Do the bizarre future rulers just want to reign?) Nor is it explained why a convict is sent. "Because he can remember things?" Pfft.
Willis sleepwalks through the role. How Madelaine Stowe (90s hubba hubba) ends up falling for this sociopathic, filthy, mental defect is another bizarre angle. It gets real hard at times to put up with Brad Pitt's manic maniac act. Very grating on the nerves.
Better to watch the Marx Brothers "Monkey Business", which is part of this film. Their tomfoolery made more sense.