12 Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer
DVD Info
Release:
Oct 24, 2006
HD-DVD Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Suround Sound Plus 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - English SDH, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
- Commentaies - Terry Gilliam - Director, Charles Roven - Producer
- Featurettes - 1. "The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of 12 MONKEYS"
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Archives
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Reviews
Gilliam has taken on a conventional Hollywood sci-fi thriller with big stars and turned it into his own rough beast.
Gilliam gives the material a lunatic poetry of his own, but remains impervious to the requirements of narrative pacing.
12 Monkeys seems to go down smoothly without compromising anything or dumbing itself down.
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.
..less an essay on the nature of madness than a crazy person’s poem. It is wild and beautiful and deeply disturbing all at once.
A messy mélange of action, adventure, sci-fi, romance, horror, and comedy.
A clever, complex, and poignant success is as astonishing as it is satisfying.
There's always overripe method to his madness, but in the new 12 Monkeys Mr. Gilliam's methods are uncommonly wrenching and strong.
Distinctly lacking in sentiment. Give me cataclysm, but at least act like you care.
Disorientating, but good performances all round. Will have you thinking for days afterwards.
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.
Terry Gilliam's most mature film to date demands rigorous analysis from the viewer. Add to this the director's grotesquely comic hallmarks, and the resulting film is a complex and rewarding fantasy.
The more I see this film, the more I'm impressed by it. I love movies that are rich and complex, filled with different layers of reading.
The acting is good, and the visuals are sharp. But at two hours long, they should have just settled for six monkeys.
Bruce Willis, in an eruptive performance of startling emotional intensity, stars as Cole, a prisoner tagged for an experiment that may get him killed.
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