A critically acclaimed sci-fi mystery directed by Monty Python alumni Terry Gilliam, “Twelve Monkeys” is the second installment of Gilliam’s supposed dystopian trilogy, starting with “Brazil” (1985) and concluding with “The Zero Theorem” (2013). It stars Bruce Willis as James Cole, a convicted criminal living in a post apocalyptic world in year 2035, sent to the past to gather information about a deadly virus released in 1996 which forced the entire mankind to live underneath the Earth’s surface. Due to the imperfections of time travel, Cole lands in 1990 instead of 1996, where he is quickly captured and placed in an asylum under the diagnosis of dr Kathlyn Railly (Madeleine Stowe). There he meets Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) a fellow mental patient, a militant animal rights activist and the future founder of the “Army of 12 Monkeys”, a terrorist organization supposedly responsible for the outbreak of the deadly virus. After failing to escape, Cole is returned into the future, and then quickly sent back to 1996 (via a brief episode in World War I in which he takes a bullet in the leg), desperately searching for Goines in order to prevent him from releasing the virus. He learns that he’s been on the wrong trail all along, and he catches up with the real culprit at the airport, only to be shot down by the police before having a chance to intervene. As a child at the airport, he witnesses his own death. At the end of the film we see the scientist truly responsible for the virus sitting on the plane next to one of the scientists from the future.
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