TheRetroCritic

Before Bruce Willis was sent back in time in Looper , he was sent back in time in Twelve Monkeys and, funnily enough, things didn't turn out so good for him then either! Further proof that, if you're going to mess with time travel, you'd better have a Doc Brown helping ya. Terry Gilliam's modern take on La Jetée 's themes is set in the near future (well, the late nineties, anyway) when a virus has wiped out most of humanity leaving only animals to rule the Earth, Planet Of The Apes -style except they don't talk and ride horses, that'd be absurd. The remaining people, who live underground, decide to send back in time some prisoner in order to try and figure out what the hell happened, who started this and perhaps stop it altogether. It's not quite clear how this time-travelling technology works and that's dealt with abstractly, which is probably a good move seeing as it cuts down on what could have been 10 dull minutes of explanation. Being a n