The best science fiction movie ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2001)

The unlikely combination of Bruce Willis in a Terry Gilliam film turns out to be the best thing either of them has ever done. I've never been a big fan of Bruce Willis' action movies, but he's at the top of his form as a reluctant time traveller / psychiatric patient. Terry Gilliam, on the other hand, proves that he can make a fairly mainstream, psychological thriller while still imparting his cynically comical world view.
The structure of the movie, constantly switching between the supposed future, where Bruce Willis's character is a prisoner being forced to go back in time to find the origins of the virus that drove humans underground, and the present, where he is considered delusional for his belief that he is from the future, is expertly handled such that it's impossible to tell which is "reality". Willis does a fantastic job capturing the despair he feels as he becomes increasingly unsure of the truth and his own sanity.
Everything about this movie is perfect -- the story, the acting, the direction, the scenery, the plot twists, and, especially, the ending. Far more than just a "fun" science fiction movie, you'll be thinking and talking about this movie for months.