normally i try to avoid sci fi movie as much a i can and because this just isn not a genre that really appeal to me . light saber and ufo and alien and time travel . most of the time it nothing for me . however and there be one movie in the genre that i will always give a place in my list of top movie and that this twelve monkey i remember to be completely blow away by it the first time and but even now and after have it see several time already and i be still one of it big fan . every time i see it and this movie seem to get good and well . somewhere in the distant future all people live underground because an unknown and lethal virus wipe out five billion people in 1996 and leave only 1 percent of the population alive . james cole be one of them . he a prisoner who live in a small cage and who be choose a a volunteer to be send back to in time to gather information about the origin of the epidemic . they believe it be spread by a mysterious group call the twelve monkey and need the virus before it mutate and so that scientist can study it . but their time travel machine doesn not work perfectly yet and he be accidentally send to 1990 and where he meet dr. kathryn railly and a psychiatrist and and jeffrey goines and the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert . what i like so much about this movie be the fact that it be never clear whether all what you be see be real or not . be this just an illusion and create in the mind of a mentally ill man or be it real . do he really come from the future and can he really travel through time . be the population really wipe out by a virus and release by the army of the twelve monkey . those be all question that will leave you wonder from the beginning until the end . if the maker of this movie have choose to make it all more obvious and i be sure that i would never have like it as much a i do now . it just that mysteriousness that keep me interested time after time . but that not the only good thing about this movie of course . the acting be amaze too . normally i be not too much a fan of bruce willis and but what he do in this movie be just astonish . together with madeleine stowe and brad pitt he should have win several award for it and because together with the amazing story and they make this movie work so incredibly well . even after several viewing and i be still a huge fan of this movie . except for this movie and i have only see one other terry gilliam movie and that fear and loathing in la vega and which wasn not bad and but do not really convince me either . however and it this movie that really make me look forward to his other work . i give it a positive and maybe even a 9 . 5/10 .