Raising and erasing the audience's hopes

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 1999)

I've seen this film many times and what impresses me more is the hope that most people have that Cole will really save the day and prevent the virus to be spread. I'm saying I'm impressed because in any moment of the film the idea of changing history is brought up! Cole is sent to the past only to try to retrieve a simpler form of the virus, before it mutates. The idea of cycle is all the time on the screen, but the audience still hopes for it. Casting Bruce Willis for the role of James Cole was really a fantastic strategy move: without him, the American hero made flesh, everything would be different!