Extra Ordinary finishing touch

Rating: 9/10 (15 July 2010)

What Can I say? I never thought I would be much interested in a Black and white movie like this one.
Started to watch with an ordinary feel. But finished watching with a very high satisfaction. The way they avoided to tell us whether the boy is really guilty or not makes us feel like a thirteenth juror over there. That thing attracted me the most in the movie.
And all through the movie, I suspected that Juror 3 could have actually made the murder as he was strongly stressing that the boy is guilty. But when Fonda, in climax, takes the coat of Juror 3 and helps him wear it changed my view. It made me feel that Juror 8 actually respects the view of Juror 3 who just fought hard for what he believed to be true.
Extra ordinary Climax. * Respecting Juror 3 left the movie without any villain in the movie * Leaving to our own decision whether the boy actually did the crime or not though they let him go because of the benefit of doubt.
These two things will never go out from my mind whenever I think about this movie.