Review of Twelve Monkeys (1995) by Serge L — 20 Apr 2015
A film I saw when it came out and found great at the time. Seeing it again, it is still pretty good except for some effects. Bruce Willis plays the uncertain hero very well. Madeleine Stowe the shaken psychiatrist also. Some themes of the films really are hitting home. The crazy dangerous suspects, inoffensive mostly. The way the future wants to change itself by affecting the past but seems to slip by unscathed. The ambiguity between dream, reality, insanity. What seems insane is less so than what seems real at times. The most flagrant flaw I saw was in slow motion, when the hero get shot at the airport. The themes and the story are what makes this film so endearing. And the confused hero. I understand the ending as follows: 1- the investigator from the future finally catch up the bad guy and prevents the apocalypse; 2- same but she can't prevent the apocalypse, only learns more about the virus to be able to resolve the issue in the future. This also resolves the issue of time-impossibility. 3- the woman is in the present beside the bad guy and just happens to become a survivor investigating in the future, unknowingly being next to what she was looking for.
According to the dvd extras, I vote 2- the most likely ending.
Great film. I see that it is coming back in tv serial now.
This review of Twelve Monkeys (1995) was written by Serge L on 20 Apr 2015.
Twelve Monkeys has generally received very positive reviews.
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