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‘A flamboyant post-apocalyptic fantasia “inspired by” Marker’s famed 1962 short La Jetée, Twelve Monkeys casts Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, and Madeleine Stowe in the trippy dystopian tale of a convict from 2035 who is sent back in time to learn more about a mysterious virus, perhaps unleashed by the terrorist Army of the Twelve Monkeys, that killed most of humanity in 1996. Only trouble is, upon arriving in 1990s Philadelphia, the convict (Willis) is immediately incarcerated as a madman and imprisoned alongside a particularly loony Brad Pitt.

The script is by Janet and David Peoples; the latter also penned Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-winning Unforgiven and co-wrote Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Peppered with allusions to Vertigo (the eerie Muir Woods scene is re-enacted wholesale), this post-apocalyptic head-trip is Gilliam at his most cracked and brilliant.’ Roxie Cinema