Twelve Monkeys . Tucson Weekly . 01-18-96

Twelve Monkeys

DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam

REVIEWED: 01-18-96

A dark, elliptical thriller about a prisoner sent back in time from a bleak and authoritarian future. Bruce Willis turns in a convincing performance as the time-traveler Cole, a man seduced by the past he's supposed to be studying. Of course, when he arrives in the 1990s and mentions he's from the future, he's thrown in the loony bin and left to rot. There he meets fellow crazy man Brad Pitt and fetching psychiatrist Madeline Stowe. Director Terry Gilliam presents an unsettling, quasi SM view of a future world dripping with rubber and chains, and the present doesn't look much better. The result is a gripping, pessimistic story of both the arrogance and fragility of human society.

--Stacey Richter

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