A True Classic

Rating: 10/10 (28 July 2005)

This is a classic 1957 black-and-white movie, directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda is also the lead star in the movie, playing the character of Mr. Davis who is one of the jurors.
The movie shows how a person can keep a cool level head and still manage to convince even the toughest of people about something that is right.
The movie also is intense in the fact that Mr. Davis manages to break the prejudice of 2 of the jurors. One of them was heavily prejudiced against slum-dwellers and feels the boy is "automatically guilty" since he is a slum-dweller and so according to him violence runs in his blood. Another juror is heavily prejudiced against unfaithful kids, because his own kid had deserted him and run away from home about 2 years back.
A classic must-watch movie. There are many things that we can learn from this movie. The moral of the story is in a way to be simple, cool, sensible and level-headed.
An interesting fact is that of the entire 94 minutes of the movie, 91 minutes are filmed completely in the juror's room and only 3 minutes are filmed away from the room.
A pleasant change from modern day Hollywood movies,which seem to be overtly obsessed with intense computer generated graphics, loud background music, things blowing up everywhere on the screen, aggressive angry characters, etc.
In "12 Angry Men", there's no overt aggression, no fight scenes, no fancy graphics, nothing. It just displays sheer amazing individual acting talents by all the actors.
A must watch and a definitely recommended movie for your private collection.
Enjoy!