(*: least, *****: highest)
They don’t make movies like this anymore.
If my review had to be summed up in one line its that one. This movie is truly brilliant… every thing from an immaculately strong script to powerful performances by the actors.
This movie is about 12 members of a jury… A jury in the final stages of a trail and the only thing remaining for them to do is give their verdict. The murder trail has a 18 year old boy charged with his father’s murder in cold blood. Every single piece of evidence shown in the court indicates that the boy is guilty but one of the jurors is not convinced everything is as clear as it is shown.
The movie is shot almost completely inside a jury room and the roles are well split between the chars without once compremising what they stand for. Henry Fonda is impeccable in portraying the dissenting juror and the rest of the ensemble make this one of the best allround acting movies i hv ever watched.