Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Even before it starts twelve monkeys has a good shot at being awesome, Terry Gilliam directs (for the first time on a script he hasn't written) and David Peoples (Unforgiven) and his wife provide the script. While he may not have contributed to the script we are in good Gilliam territory with the subjects of time travel and sanity.
Bruce Willis is James Cole a convict sent back in time to gather information on the release of a virus that wiped out most of the worlds population or he might be a crazy. There are some great visual reflections to look out for in the first half of the film with sets in the “real world” echoing sets from the future which may be Cole's fantasy world. The future world is inspired by Gilliam's earlier film Brazil and there some nods to Hitchcock in the second half of the film as well. Brad Pitt is actually really good as the definitely insane Jeffrey.
The only thing I think could have made the film slightly better would have been a little more exploration of the possibility that Madeline Stowe's character could be the one that is really nuts but other than I am not sure you can improve on this film. There ending is also really good and the time travel aspect is handled well, sometimes people can get really bogged down on time travel when it is part of a story. I am going to make Twelve Monkeys the first 5/5 on the blog!
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