renatajohnsonqueenbae
What in the sam hell just happened?? So Bruce Willis went back in time and saw hisself get killed? and that's what made him loco? This is such mind @$@# that I don't know where to begin. I loved it. Brad Pitt looking all fine as hell too, even as a looney tooney. I need to watch this again. And if see some damn giraffes running down the Brooklyn bridge, Imma be out.
cinemajesty
Film Review: "Twelve Monkeys" (1995)Received in complete chaos of thought, stretch out into a mindscape of infinite imagination, the motion picture "Twelve Monkeys" directed Terry Gilliam released on December 8th 1995 in New York City remains to amaze with a relentless image system of apocalyptic cinematography by Roger Pratt, a lion in winter standing of building's rooftops, while humanity bound to live underground, inventing time travel to find the cause of an epidemic that stroke the entire population from the face of the Earth.The stakes could not be higher in this motion picture, where every scene strikes nerves from light to action, from drama to comedy, from zeitgeist-pulse-driving thrills to mind-bending science-fiction panoramas, feeling with main character James Cole, portrayed by Bruce Willis performing like there would not be a tomorrow with foreclosing, high-stress beats to complete resignation, presenting awe-striking range given to him by director Terry Gilliam, before making room for actor Brad Pitt as the institutionalized character of Jeffrey Goines, running through spaces of an over-populated mental institution, explaining the sick-making games in good faith to interact, to connect with the opposite human in dutch camera angles, moving, accelerating, looking out for anker to hold on; the audience completely thrown into a labyrinth of emotions, when actress Madeleine Stowe, portraying female psychiatrist Kathryn Railly with full body awareness, confronting James Cole in time zones between 1990 and 1996, where the infamous virus might have released at an airport to nowhere, raising suspense levels to heights of maximum risks for the falling into love-story of the doctor and his patient, when suddenly the director, supported by an brilliantly written high-standard script placed at releasing Universal Picture Studios through David & Janet Peoples, who took Chris Marker's still photography film "La Jetée" (1962) and elevated it to a masterful motion picture, where each every one involved get pushed to their limits, establishing, witnessing cinema as the artform, involving all other arts, which came before.When the picture closes, it can be argued about where all this interweaving imaginarium of the filmmaker comes from to deliver such an in the end pitch-perfect film of no lose ends that nevertheless was hard to grasp in terms of marketing at times of its release. I watch it today and my feeling does not betray me in conceiving "12 Monkeys" (1995) fully with the wish to meet it again in quiet, calm moments of the future to recall what it means to confront life, of being human to seek, to find, to confront one's emotions toward everlasting balance from the chaos.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
Gabriel Chandra
This movie has great cast, and sound like so promising, but in fact the film is not as good what you think. I even don't know why they made this film.First, the story begin with Cole who did time travel. Then, the story try to convinced us that time travel doesn't exist. It's just Cole imagination, he is crazy guy same with Jeffrey. But suddenly the story change when Dr. Rilley found fact that Cole really do time travel. She even help Cole finishing his mission. So the story begin with their struggle. This movies seems giving us a lot of puzzle... how can Jeffry release from hospital and suddenly become 12 monkeys leader? We know he is crazy guy. Again, the story try convinced us with Jeffry want spread the virus so Cole and Rilley try to stop them... but the fact he is not... what he's doing? His insane just for animal freedom... and who is the real enemy?? The Dr. Goines' assistant.. what the hell... that guy just show in short time suddenly become the real enemy WITHOUT EXPLANATION!And the worse thing ever in Aiport scene. After almost 2 hours this film run and guess what... their struggle FAILED WITHOUT SOLUTION! Come on 5 million people going to die when the virus spread but what we got... Just Cole die in policeman's hand when he try to stop Dr. Goines' assistant runaway... after that what the police doing? nothing, what Rilley doing? nothing... the policemen even don't suspicious or try to find out about the happened... and this movie ending without problem solving. We even don't get news about Jeffrey and the gang or even Dr. Goines himself.I can say this film may be the best performance by Bruce Willis in his whole career but his acting can't save this story. Very surprising watch Brad Pitt act like that, he give great performance but a little bit overacting sometimes. I love the girl who play Dr. Rilley, so beautiful. But I have big complaint why they put Christopher Plummer here ? He did good job as supporting actor but his character as Dr. Groines is useless and not worthy. His character doing nothing during this film run.So I give 8/10 for the acting and 4/10 for the story
