Twelve Monkeys Critic Reviews

Gilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world.Read the full review

Fierce and disturbing, with a plot that skillfully resists following any familiar course. The film's hero fears that he's half-crazy, and for two hours Mr. Gilliam artfully keeps his audience feeling the same way.Read the full review

It's refreshing to encounter a movie with a logical, intelligent approach to the dangers of zipping through time.Read the full review

As the jabbering psychotic Jeffrey Goines, Brad Pitt has a rabid, get-a-load-of-me deviousness that works for the film's central mystery: We can't tell where the fanatic leaves off and the put-on artist begins.Read the full review

A grandiose cinematic invention, cleverly turning the present-day urban American world on its ear.Read the full review

Any laughs that it inspires will be very hollow. It's more of a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is inadequate.Read the full review

A densely plotted, visually dynamic post-apocalyptic thriller.Read the full review

In a movie in which time travel is used to rectify the past, it's too bad scriptwriters David and Janet Peoples didn't go through the time/space tunnel to work on that first draft again.Read the full review