Thinking persons time travel Sci-Fi

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2019)

I first saw "Twelve Monkeys" when it was freshly released. I was totally confused and couldn't follow the plot at all, even though I wasn't that young. I thought it was total nonsense, and, since I well-educated in the sciences, I just generally considered time-travel plots to be tripe.
Wow, how things change with time. I really get the movie this time around, and, very surprisingly, because of the way that time travel is used in the plot, I think that element of the movie worded brilliantly well. This is just a super strong film for which Bruce Willis is perfectly cast (like most movie stars, they only really "work" in a limited number of roles). To me the only thing that puts me off a bit is that they seem to have raided most of the set and the same make-up artists from "Brazil". It's not that the movie was really hurt with this apparent economy, but that it could have benefited from a little bit more originality in these elements. Still, I'm really just picking nits.
Initially, I was going to just write off this film and not watch it again, but I' super glad that I didn't do that. What's more embarrassing is that I was watching the movie with a guy well into his social security years who's really into Sci-Fi and he didn't have any problem following the plot at all. Makes me feel like a moron. Still a great movie, although I might not be the genius I like to think I am. In an event, if Sci-Fi is your thing, I can't recommend this brain-twister high enough.