Twelve Monkeys Critic Reviews

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

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

Gilliam's work is long on sensibility, short on sense.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

Mystifying, intriguing, even infuriating, it shows what happens when an unconventional talent meets straightforward material.Read the full review

A Hitchcockian chase...A crowd-pleasing airport-pursuit pic. [27 Dec 1995, p.D1]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

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