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DVD : 12 Monkeys [HD DVD]In association with Amazon.com![: 12 Monkeys [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ugg2j5aUL._SL160_.jpg) List Price: $19.98 Price: $7.49 You Save: $12.49 (63%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: HD DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 0025192778025 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: October 24, 2006 Running Time: 130 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1995 Sales Rank: 9892 MPN: HD27780 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Universal 12 Monkeys - HD-DVD In this science fiction masterpiece, Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in timeto save the human race from a deadly virus that has forced mankind into dank underground communities in the future. Along his travels, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) and a mental patient, brilliantly portrayed by Brad Pitt, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, The Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible forunleashing the killer disease. Believing he can obtain a pure virus sample in order to find a cure in the future, he is met with one riddle after another that puts him in a race for time. Amazon.com essential video: Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée (which is included on the DVD Short 2: Dreams), 12 Monkeys combines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the uniquely imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam. The story opens in the wintry wasteland of the year 2035, where a virulent plague has forced humans to live in a squalid, oppressively regimented underground. Bruce Willis plays a societal outcast who is given the opportunity to erase his criminal record by "volunteering" to time-travel into the past to obtain a pure sample of the deadly virus that will help future scientists to develop a cure. But in bouncing from 1918 to the early and mid-1990s, he undergoes an ordeal that forces him to question his own perceptions of reality. Caught between the dangers of the past and the devastation of the future, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) who is initially convinced he's insane, and a wacky mental patient (Brad Pitt in a twitchy Oscar-nominated role) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus. Equal parts mystery, tragedy, psychological thriller, and apocalyptic drama, 12 Monkeys ranks as one of the best science fiction films of the '90s, boosted by Gilliam's visual ingenuity and one of the finest performances of Willis's career. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Overwrought.12 Monkeys starring Bruce Willis is a long, dragged-out drama. I wish this film was shorter but the acting is incredible from Willis and Brad Pitt. There is a lot of time travel and strange scenes but people seem to like this movie. This mystery is a mixed bag for me. Rating:  - A warning about the Special Edition if you order it from Amazon...I ordered this item and got a Special Edition case with a DVD that didn't contain any extras, only the movie and no commentary either. So I hope if someone is planning to buy this for the extras, I can warn them that you might not get what you ordered and once you open it to determine if you got the Special Edition with extras or just the regular disc with only the movie on it, you will have problems returning it and getting a replacement is out because you could get the same thing. I ... Read More Rating:  - Amazing movie, nearly perfect.I'll try not to explain the contents of the movie, which will be difficult because this one is hard to review without actually defining what happens within. Suffice it to say, though, that this is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It seems to not get much more than a cult following at this moment, but as time passes there's no doubt in my mind that this will become a classic science fiction psychological thriller of the first order. Bruce Willis is unbelievable in this movie. Brad ... Read More Rating: - A flawless filmSci-fi film in which Bruce Willis plays a time traveller who travels back to the year 1990 from a dystopian future to stop a virus that in the year 1996 will wipe out most of mankind and forces the survivors to live underground. However, when he arrives in the year 1990, he is believed to be mad and is placed in a mental institution, under the care of psychiatrist Madeleine Stowe. Stowe also believes that Willis is suffering from mental illness, with paranoid delusions of the end of the world, but then ... Read More Rating: - 12 MonkeysGreat sci-fi movie to watch. Bruce Willis does a great job playing the part, along with Brad Pitt also. Need to see movie. Browse for similar items by category:
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