You'd better watch it twice!

Rating: 9/10 (18 November 2002)

Twelve Monkeys combines an exceptional story with some really good performances.
In this movie Bruce Willis (James Cole) shows us, once again, that he became more and more an actor. Madeleine Stowe (Dr. Kathryn Railly)shines as the doctor who wants to help the poor Cole. And Brad Pitt is just brilliant as the insane Jeffrey Goines.
The story itself is quite unique. In the future, prisoners are sent back into time to find out why we are all dead. All the people in the future know is that a virus killed almost the entire worldpopulation.
To find out more about that virus prisoners are sent back to time. James Cole is one of those "volunteers". But things went terribly wrong. Cole is sent back to the wrong year and ends up in a mental institution. From there on, he tries to convince his doctors that he is not insane.
The movie is very well made. It swings back an forward into time and does that in such a way that even the viewer starts to question Cole. At the end of the movie you really wonder wether Cole is a hero, or just another mental patient.
This is a must see film, and if you want to understand it, you'd better watch it twice!