Should be called 12 Wonderful Men - spoiler

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2005)

This should be called 12 Wonderful Men because it is as fine a movie as any I've seen. They are 12 real pros who want to do a good job. I can't imagine directing 12 strong actors, I can't begin to imagine what a job that is. I had heard so much about Diner I thought Diner was going to be like this, and Diner couldn't do the job properly with four men, let alone 12. I got the impression that Martin Balsam was the big name in the movie and that the foreman role was considered one of the top billing ones, I don't know. I noticed his name was first on the credits, I didn't know if that was star power or some other order. The last shot was beautiful with good spatial relation, with a rainy day and people just walking along. Ordinary every day life, which is what I'm interested in and where I have the most fun. Well, glamorous things are fun too, but so are ordinary every day life things. The old man was fantastic, they all were. I had to take the movie in small doses, it was almost too much for one sitting. One of my favorite scenes is where someone drinks from a dixie cup, then crumples and throws it. It was all good, a fine movie that shows you how acting is done (Martin Balsam always shows you how it's done, and now there were a whole group of actors showing us).