Necessary...

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2010)

How can a person make a movie that is filmed in only one room, and never gets boring? well, ask Sidney Lumet. This director, showing maturity in his very first film, made a classic, one of the most acclaimed movies of all time, using twelve actors and a excellent script.
In one of it's first scenes, where there was eleven jurors voting guilty, and only one voting non-guilty, I thought, "It's impossible, there is no way that in only one room, a single man could convince eleven jurors that there was a reasonable doubt", but fortunately there is, you'll see, this is the most important quality of this picture, otherwise everybody would be thinking, "What a stupid idea that is, to make a movie in only one room, it's just boring". It's not fair to review this movie without talking about the acting, with the help of the script, they made twelve different two-dimensional characters, and they represent all the different kind of people in the society, there is the grouchy, there is the one who only cares about himself, the wise old man and a lot more.
This movie is for me the best example for me that action scenes and visuals effects are not at all, the most important element of great films, of course there are movies that think different than I do.
Verdict: You can watch this movie ten times, and you will no find a reasonable doubt to not watch it again.