Good cinema science fiction isn´t dead after all !

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 1999)

The main reason i realy like this movie, it´s because somehow it doesn´t feel like a regular sci-fi overproduced hollywood product. Just because it has a great story. Each time i see this, it seems like i´ve just read a very good sci-fi novel, instead of simply watching a movie.
12 MONKEYS, has probably the best time travel story i´ve seen in a movie so far. It´s less complex than it seems at first, but it manages to keep us interested right up untill the final moments. Altough the ending is very easy to guess, right at the begining of the movie. But this is only if you are someone who has read many science fiction through out the years. If you did, your mind will start thinking on possibilities and time-travel clichés the moment this movie starts. And there is a great possibility you´ll guess everything right away. But that´s another way of watching this story, i guess, because it´s great to think about it while we are watching it, an dtry to form our own conclusions. And this story is filled with small details.
So if you are just a regular "hollywoodian" movie goer, and don´t like to think much at the movies, stay away from 12 MONKEYS, because chances are you´ll probably won´t like it. But if you like sience fiction, go right ahead, because this one of the best sci-fi in the 90´s.
Visualy it´s fantastic, with a very original production design, wich make everything look like as if it was taken from an european graphic novel, or BD or comics, whatever you want to call it. The scenes set in the future are just excelent, with a very claustrophobic feel, even when they are set on open spaces sometimes. We realy can feel that the world has come to an end, and this adds a great atmosphere to the scenes set in the present, because we have already seen how the future looks like.
Bruce Willis and Brad Pit do an incredible job in this movie, an dwe can never choose wich one we admire the most, altough Brad Pit playing a schizofrenic mad man, is totaly convincing and he´s one of the main reasons to watch 12 MONKEYS even if you don´t like sci-fi.
I don´t know what else to say, without revealing the plot, so i won´t say nothing more, except you have to see this movie. Just watch it alone or with someone who has also never seen it. Try to watch it without knowing to much about it and you´ll love it much more. Part of the fun in it is to watch things being revealed.