Excellent movie.

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2000)

35 years from now 7/8 of the human population will die from a deadly virus and the remaining 1/8 will discover a new Noah's ark in the underground.That's basically the plot,which is not so sci-fi if you take the ecological lack of concern into account.It seems however that Gilliam doesn't focus so much on the latter but touches other (maybe more important) subjects.Man's return to the underground as a metaphor for his grave,the dominance of the animals once again or the fact that even deep in the underground man has to live in societies which make up rules.But the point in this film is destiny and how you can't avoid...or can you?In this future era our hero (Willis) travels through time as easily as we change the channel and tries to change the way things will turn out.In the process he starts to attach to this new world and...I won't disclose any more,you must see this movie if you're interested in films as a form of art.Other "allurements" of the movie include an unexpected performance by Brad Pitt and the sequence of action,cynicism and affection of the film.12 Monkeys won't disappoint you so long as you don't disappoint it.