I remember being so scared for that boy...

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2005)

Twelve Monkeys is one of my favorite sci-fi movies. It's not one of those idiotic "bring your huge guns and shoot everything that moves!" movies, but a movie, which makes you think about things, like past and future. Time and sanity.
Plot in the peanut shell is this: 1996 a virus wipes out most of the human race. Survivors are forced to life underground, while all other species, immune to the human only virus, take over the surface of the planet. Humans try to discover a cure to this dreadful disease and so they must use time-travel to discover pure form, un-mutated form, of the virus.
Cole, Bruce Willis, is a prisoner, who 'volunteers' to take these hazardous trips to locate the pure virus. But when he does go further and further in time he begins to question his own sanity. What is real and what is in my imagination? Also can the time be changed? Can he stop the madman from spreading the virus, or will it all start again?
Kathryn Railly, portrayed by Madeleine Stowe, is a psychiatrist, who takes care of Cole in the past, when delirious and confused man is locked up in mental asylum. No one is willing to listen Cole. but then Cole disappears from the locked room.
Jeffrey Goines, Prad Pitt, is a son of a millionaire Dr. Goines, Cristopher Plummer, a famous virologist. Cole meets Jeffrey in a asylum, and after Cole escapes he discoverers, that Jeffrey might have his hands in the destruction of human race.
Unlike many thinking man movies Twelve Monkeys manages to keep its grip through out the whole movie. That is mostly the asset of Terry Gilliam, who does his absolute best direction job of his career. he manages to keep script tightly in his hands, and so everything that happens in the world of this film seems so logic, even tough things are mostly very surprising.
Also the music and acting is superb through the whole film, and it is not wrong to say, that Bruce Willis is in one of his best roles as Cole.
My thumbs up.