"Invisible" wrote:
> It involves Bruce Willis in a dystopian future and a team of scientists 
> who keep sending him back in time to try to avert the terrorist 
> catastrophy that overtook civilisation - apparently perpetrated by a band 
> calling themselves "the island of the twelve monkeys". As it turns out, 
> this band is actually a bunch of kids out to cause a bit of trouble, and 
> the real catastrophy was brought about by an eminent biological scientist 
> who decided to murder the world. For no defined reason. Obviously nobody 
> believes that Willis is actually from the future, and he slowly goes mad, 
> eventually believing that his time spent in the future is actually a 
> hollucination.
>
> Basically, a very bad film that barely makes sense.

I think it's a very good film (one of my favorites) that mostly makes sense 
just fine. Certainly, the time travel logic used makes a lot more sense than 
in most other movies with time travel, i.e. it doesn't contradict itself.

The "beauty" of the time travel story here is the recurring dream he has 
about some man dying at an airport. The dream is caused by him witnessing 
this stranger dying at an airport as a child, and in the end of the movie, 
it turns out that the man is actually himself. So as a child he witnessed 
his older self dying and the scene keeps coming back to him in his dreams.

> and the real catastrophy was brought about by an eminent biological 
> scientist who decided to murder the world. For no defined reason.

Sounds like something that could happen in the real world to me. Some people 
*are* weird and take very strange decisions.

Rune
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