90's Classic

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2015)

The first time I saw 12 Monkeys was (gulp!) about 20 years ago (wow time flies). I saw it again this evening and the impetus for me watching it again was the self same titled TV series on SyFy. As I was watching the TV show I began wondering how much likeness it had to the movie as my memory of 20 years ago is a little fuzzy. Just to digress a bit... I know where Willis and Pitt have been the last 20 years, but where has Madeleine Stowe (Kathryn Railly) been?
12 Monkeys is definitely one of my favorite time travel movies. It does suffer from the same paradox and conundrum issues that a lot of time travel movies do, especially when the time travel is to prevent a particular event (i.e. if you went back in time to stop said event and were successful there would no longer exist a reason to go back in time which leads to the question: would that same event still occur since you never went back to stop it????). Paradoxes aside, the movie was a blast.
Brad Pitt did a bang up job as the certifiably insane, Jeffrey Goines. I had forgotten just how cuckoo he was in the movie and how well he did as a nut case. Willis was decent as well. I almost forgot he did non action-hero roles. The accordion rich, French music score ground my gears a little bit but it wasn't too distracting. And I couldn't be too upset considering the movie was based upon the French film "La Jetee". The story was gold, so much so they've made a TV show based upon the movie. Another, now, oldie but goodie from the 90's.