Twelve Monkeys

1995

124 mins

In Terry Gilliam's sci-fi mystery with Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt, a lone time traveller from the year... More

In Terry Gilliam's sci-fi mystery with Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt, a lone time traveller from the year 2035 must solve a riddle to save his people but it may also take him to the brink of madness. After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus, survivors must live in dank underground communities. Cole (Willis) 'volunteers' to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample, thereby helping scientists develop a cure.

Along the way, he crosses paths with a beautiful psychiatrist (Stowe) and a one-card-short-of-a-full-deck mental patient (Pitt). But the race is on, as Cole searches for The Army of the 12 Monkeys, a radical group linked to the deadly disease.

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Twelve Monkeys | Ratings & Reviews

88_%74 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
88_%391,824 reviews
Audience score rating

"Appeals more to the mind than to the senses."

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Roger Ebert

"Mystifying, intriguing, even infuriating, it shows what happens when an unconventional talent meets straightforward material."

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Los Angeles Times

"Bruce Willis, in an eruptive performance of startling emotional intensity, stars as a prisoner tagged for an experiment that may get him killed."

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Rolling Stone

"A complex and rewarding fantasy."

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BBC

"Will have you thinking for days afterwards."

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Empire Magazine

"There's always overripe method to his madness, but in the new 12 Monkeys Mr. Gilliam's methods are uncommonly wrenching and strong."

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The New York Times

"Gilliam gives the material a lunatic poetry of his own, but remains impervious to the requirements of narrative pacing."

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Time Out

"A spectacular mess, a convoluted film with too many ideas for its own good, blending (among other things) the virus thriller with the post-apocalyptic genre."

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