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12 Monkeys
Directed by
Terry Gilliam
R
1996
2h 9m
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8.0
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In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
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Cast of 12 Monkeys
Bruce Willis
James Cole
Madeleine Stowe
Dr. Kathryn Railly
Brad Pitt
Jeffrey Goines
Christopher Plummer
Dr. Goines
David Morse
Dr. Peters
Jon Seda
Jose
Christopher Meloni
Lt. Halperin
Joey Perillo
Detective Franki
LisaGay Hamilton
Teddy
Matt Ross
Bee
Annie Golden
Woman Cabbie
Michael Chance
Scarface
H. Michael Walls
Botanist
Bob Adrian
Geologist
Bill Raymond
Microbiologist
Ernest Abuba
Engineer
Nell Johnson
Ward Nurse
Rozwill Young
Billings
Joseph Melito
Young Cole
Frank Gorshin
Dr. Fletcher
12 Monkeys Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
While all of Gilliam's movies are worth seeing, there's a fair amount of his designer grimness here mixed in with the cabaret comedy.
Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
Gilliam's greatest all around film.
Variety
Variety Staff
Neither as visually compelling as Brazil nor as emotionally gripping as The Fisher King.
Variety
Emanuel Levy
Dark and somber like Blade Runner, this sci-fi is 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.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
There's always overripe method to his madness, but in the new 12 Monkeys Mr. Gilliam's methods are uncommonly wrenching and strong.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It often seems as though Gilliam is the least prolific of fantastic directors working today (with the possible exception of Alejandro Jodorowsky), but once again, it was worth the wait.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Bruce Willis, in an eruptive performance of startling emotional intensity, stars as Cole, a prisoner tagged for an experiment that may get him killed.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Mystifying, intriguing, even infuriating, it shows what happens when an unconventional talent meets straightforward material.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Willis and Pitts's performances, Gilliam's atmospherics and an exhilarating momentum easily outweigh such trifling flaws.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
A potent glimpse of doom with a jarringly familiar ring.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Overwrought.
Film.com
Sean P. Means
Willis gives a quietly intense performance, looking like he's trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle in his head.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
In its frantic mix of chaos, carnage and zoo animals, 12 Monkeys is Jumanji for adults.
Salon.com
Scott Rosenberg
What's remarkable about 12 Monkeys is that, despite its decade-hopping abandon, the film makes a chilling kind of narrative sense.
Film.com
Tom Keogh
This film hits a nerve a lot more effectively than either the director's Brazil or The Fisher King.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
As an entertainment, it appeals more to the mind than to the senses.
Film.com
Keith Simanton
At 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.
Film.com
John Hartl
In some ways, 12 Monkeys is the end-of-the-world thriller that Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days wanted to be.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
A densely plotted, visually dynamic post-apocalyptic thriller.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
[Gilliam] turns a world falling apart into a funky, dizzying spectacle.
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