James Cole, a prisoner of the state in the year 2035, can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and thwart a devastating plague. The virus has wiped out most of the Earth's population and the remainder live underground because the air is poisonous. Returning to the year 1990, six years before the start of the plague, Cole is soon imprisoned in a psychiatric facility because his warnings sound like mad ravings. There he meets a scientist named Dr. Kathryn Railly and ... (Full plot summary below)
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James Cole, a prisoner of the state in the year 2035, can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and thwart a devastating plague. The virus has wiped out most of the Earth's population and the remainder live underground because the air is poisonous. Returning to the year 1990, six years before the start of the plague, Cole is soon imprisoned in a psychiatric facility because his warnings sound like mad ravings. There he meets a scientist named Dr. Kathryn Railly and Jeffrey Goines, the mad son of an eminent virologist. Cole is returned by the authorities to the year 2035, and finally ends up at his intended destination in 1996. He kidnaps Dr. Railly in order to enlist her help in his quest. Cole discovers graffiti by an apparent animal rights group called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, but as he delves into the mystery, he hears voices, loses his bearings, and doubts his own sanity. He must figure out if Goines, who seems to be a raving lunatic, holds the key to the puzzle.
Leave your thoughts about Twelve Monkeys.
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumBrad Pitt has fun with his secondary part as a pontificating lunatic, but I wish I'd enjoyed the rest of the cast more. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversGilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittBruce Willis is bruisingly good as the hero and Brad Pitt is suitably zany as the activist who dogs his trail. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'EhleyIt has a story -- and a good one at that -- with characters one cares about and isn't just a flashy display of what today's special effects teams are capable of. Anybody out there in Hollywood listening to any of this? |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovGilliam keeps the audience guessing, and in doing so creates a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness cloaked in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller. |
| VarietyVariety StaffNeither as visually compelling as Brazil nor as emotionally gripping as The Fisher King. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseGilliam's polarizing style is at its near-best...a dazzling feat of storytelling that bristles with provocative ideas. [Blu-ray] |
| Film.comTom KeoghThis film hits a nerve a lot more effectively than either the director's Brazil or The Fisher King. |
| Film.comKeith SimantonAt one point Cole says that viewing the past is like watching a good movie, 'Every time you see it it's different, because you're different.' 12 Monkeys is a film that will do that, change as you change. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellTerry Gilliam has seldom been more inventive or more compelling. |
