Not an interesting story

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2015)

I like the art direction. Not too impressive in today's standards, but even in 1996, there were many movies with far more impressive scenes, computer graphics or not. The story is not interesting nor confusing to me.
Here's the spoiler and my opinion on "what happened" in this movie:
The very first scene of the movie quotes a mental hospital patient's words - the whole story of twelve monkeys. Seeing this film with an understanding of schizophrenia's hallucination and paranoia, I think it's clear that the entire movie is in a patient's mind. A mental patient's attachment to his psychiatrist. And, many of these patients think other patients are insane and they are the only sane person in a dangerous situation that nobody else understands - paranoia. Brad Pitt's performance, for example, as a fellow patient, is simply over the top and, well, improbable. In fact, the whole thing in the mental hospital was simply exaggerated, not anything like the reality, because it's seen through a patient's mind - everybody is insane but himself.
So throughout this movie I find myself shaking my head thinking how bad the protagonist's hallucination is. The movie is crystal clear in this backdrop, and I honestly can't give high regards to a movie that basically depict a hallucination.