This is one of the most enduring, timeless and engaging classics of our time.

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2012)

This is one of the most enduring, timeless and engaging classics of our time. It has the right to rank among the classics. It has the right to stand tall among all the great pieces of art, Mozart and citizen Kane included. Sidney Lumet is a genius and he surely knows how to tell a story. First you bring about a group of jury members, eleven of whom are sure about a boy's guilt and only a true protagonist goes against all of them. Now the job rest in the hands of the story teller. How will that one juror convince all the others? Henry Fonda was really good. He just had the best expressions to command a team. Then we have all the other actors. Especially Lee J. Cobb, giving the best of his anger. A distraught father who wants to take revenge from his son by pouring his entire hanger on the convicted boy. Everything, just everything makes this movie a piece to love and enjoy.
My rating: (out of 100) Direction 99 Acting 97 Cinematography 79 Music 78 Screenplay 99