电影《十二猴子》是一部由特瑞·吉列姆执导的科幻电影，讲述了在公元1996年，世界被一种致命病毒侵袭之后，人类只能在地下苟且偷生，科学家们为了改变这一现状，设计出一个计划去改变这一切并最终找到了释放病毒的“罪魁祸首”。为了调查病毒的来源，科学家们将一个囚犯送回到90年代，他只记得两条微弱的线索：童年回忆和“十二只猴子”的难解记号。

影片中，布鲁斯·威利斯饰演的主角詹姆斯·科尔曼被选为这个计划的志愿者，他将被送回1996年寻找关于病毒的线索。科尔曼发现自己被送到了监狱里，但他的任务依旧没有改变，他需要寻找那个被称为“12猴”的组织，并找到病毒的来源。在与囚犯杰夫的接触中，科尔曼得知了12猴组织的存在，并在逃跑过程中结识了激进的梅（布拉德·皮特饰），后者自称是12猴的成员。

在科尔曼的不懈努力下，他终于找到了12猴组织的总部。然而，这只是一场阴谋，12猴组织并不是释放病毒的真正罪魁祸首。最终，科尔曼被迫回到未来，只留下了病毒专家的儿子和那12只猴子的记忆，这个计划最终也没有达成目标。

电影《十二猴子》通过剧情的跳跃和独特的叙事手法，向观众展示了一个关于时间和命运的深刻思考。影片中的人物形象深刻，故事情节紧凑，为观众带来了一场跌宕起伏的科幻之旅。

Most human beings are infected with a strange virus, which has brought human beings to the brink of extinction, leaving only Can you imagine that these viruses were developed by twelve monkeys? Since 1996, people have been attacked by this virus. In order to save humans, scientists find out the origin of monkeys by looking for volunteers to travel through time and space. One of the death row inmates named James Cole became a volunteer, but the space-time machine deviated and sent James to 1990, when people were not infected with the virus. James hopes that through his own efforts and explanations of future viruses, people can prevent disasters in advance, but no one believes him. Not only that, he was also locked up in the hospital as a mental illness.

In the hospital, James met fellow patient Jeffrey, with his help Down back to the future.

But due to the virus, it was not found, and James took the space-time machine again to return to In 1996, according to the clues in his memory, James investigated the virus, which was inseparable from the virus experts back then.