Watch it again ... and again ... and again

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2007)

Terry Gilliam is one of the finest filmmakers of our time. And this movie just underlines this. With Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt and other fine actors (you can read their names on the cast list here) he is on the right track.
A movie concerning time travel could only mean that there would be flaws in the story. It's just impossible to make one and not have flaws. That was what I thought, until I watched this movie. A flawless depiction of time traveling. Because it shows that you can not alter the past. If you could alter the past, than it could not have happened which would mean, it never existed as a form of a past (unless you work with multiple dimensions, than it could work, without being completely questionable).
So yes Bruce Willis is send back in time to change what had happened ... but he doesn't, because he can't ... no he is send there because he is part of the past. And although he doesn't know it, he kind of is trapped in a loop. Or at least it does seem like one, actually it isn't. He has a beginning and an end, but since he goes back in time, when he is actually in the past, his future (for example his birth) is still in the making ... although he dies before that ... sounds confusing? But it is not really ... and that is what is fantastic about this movie ... you always have the answer right in front of you, but you only get it at the end (when it's to late)