(Weather report) Movie review for 12 Monkeys
No commentsBy Mr D Stevens
This is a very entertaining futuristic science fiction movie, that has one of the best trailers out there purely for its suspense.
It stars Bruce Willis (Die Hard) as James Cole who has been placed in a psychiatric ward, lead by Kathryn Railly played by the lovely Madeleine Stowe (We were soldiers), in the same ward is Jeffrey Goines played charismatically by Brad Pitt, he simply steals the show in every scene he is in.
Cole tells an unbelieving Kathryn that he is from the future where there are no animals, and a plague has wiped out most of humanity, and his mission is to prevent the first occurrence of the virus that lead to the plague.
However he is constantly taken back to the future for a progress report, which disorientates his thoughts and mindset. It turns out he is a prisoner in the future, and doing this mission will guarantee a pardon.
It seems there are problems sending him back to the correct time line to continue his mission; after being debriefed on how progress on the mission is going. When sent back, in some cases he is several years out of sync with the proposed date he is supposed to be in, with one occurrence landing him in the trenches of the First World War where he is unfortunately shot in the leg.
Of course Kathryn doesn’t believe a word he says, and sees him as an advanced delusional schizophrenic, until she happens to look through an archive book of the First World War, and sees a clear picture of James in it, she also happens to have the bullet from World War One in his leg removed and analysed, and she confronts him as to how he came to have a bullet from World War One in his leg.
At this point she begins to believe him, and although James wishes for it not to be true, and that he is still a psychiatric patient (since he prefers this timeline) in a world without a plague, realises he must continue his mission of preventing the plague that has wiped out most of humanity. It becomes a desperate race against time for James and Kathryn to find who is responsible for the plague, the only clue they have to go on is a sect called the Twelve Monkeys that may or may not be responsible for setting off the first instance of the plague.
Mr D Stevens is a reviewer at Movie reviews
Movie review for Ink
By Mr D Stevens
This is a strange surreal science fiction movie that follows beings the rest of the world do not see, but are responsible for our dreams and sometimes nightmares.
We first see some flashbacks of a very busy businessman John played by Chris Kelly, who has just recently divorced from his wife, and spending some time with his daughter Emma played by Quinn Hunchar, he at first is reluctant to play her games, saying her mother is much more suited to it than him, but he relinquishes eventually and joins her in fighting the “invisible monster” who has come to kidnap her.
Later on you realise the game was a foretelling of what is about to happen because there is a monster who does come and kidnap her.
In the evening some interesting beings materialise on the street and all go into peoples’ homes, at first you wonder what on earth is happening. Soon after when everybody goes to sleep, and Emma has to appease her grandmother that she is asleep by making some snoring noises, as soon as you see them put their hands on the foreheads of the people whose homes they have come into, and smile, you realise immediately there are responsible for relaxing peaceful dreams, the one responsible for Emma’s peaceful dreams, Allel played by the lovely Jennifer Batter was watching in amusement while Emma pretended to be snoring.
After a short while some other beings materialise (Incubi), and with the ominous mood surrounding them it becomes obvious that they are responsible for nightmares.
A short while a being materialises, and goes into the bedroom of the little girl at the beginning, and places his hand on her forehead, she immediately wakes up, or her unconscious wakes up in her dream state (she is still asleep in the real world), several of the good beings materialise and there is an all out battle, where they all try to stop the monster from taking the girl, apparently during the battle as furniture and equipment is destroyed, they all revert back to their original form and place, in the real world, which makes some sense as all this is going on in the dream world.
The monster takes the girl and as perplexed as we all are to the reasons, we eventually find out that he is a “Drifter” called Ink, someone who has died and is wandering this surreal world without a purpose, and wears a hood to cover his scarred form, hoping to take the girl to the leader of the Incubi in other to be one of them.
Meanwhile the beings responsible for good dreams (Storytellers) have asked the help of a blind “Pathfinder” Jacob played by Jeremy Make; to help them locate the girl where Ink has her, he suggests they go into the real world and find her father, that her father holds the key to saving her life, as apparently in the real world she is now in a coma, and if Ink succeeds in taking her to the leader of the nightmare beings she will die in the real world, so Allel, Gabe played by Eme Ikuakor, and Sara played by Shelby Malone venture into the real world but no one can see neither can they affect any physical thing. Another Storyteller Liev played by the lovely Jessica Duffy locates Ink, and after a short battle Ink takes her prisoner and is planning on taking her along with the girl to the leader of the Incubi.
It is a fascinating science fiction storyline, with a fresh twist on this genre, with an equally gripping suspense throughout.
Mr D Stevens is a reviewer at Movie reviews
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