Great courtroom drama, but not without flaws

Rating: 5/10 (4 July 2019)

This movie presents a courtroom drama with a solid moral quandary, but a few aspects of the film failed to make the delimma as powerful as it could have been. The worst of which was the love story that only served to chop up the narrative without adding anything at all to the story. It didn't even make the male love interest any more relatable.
Anoth big problem is that the true depth of the moral quandary isn't even revealed until well after the climax. If all of the information was known prior to the trial, the trial would have been much more intense to both the viewer and to the testifying characters, and a certain character's perjury would have been much more relatable.
Some minor faults were the zooming in on the typewriter failing to type anything and the full glass of water that was poured on a character in the final scene. I mean, beads of water covered the man's suit shoulders, way too far away for them to be drops of sweat from his face.
For all its faults, The Caine Mutiny is still a definite step above older more delimmas such as The Ox-Bow Incident, but it still can't live up to greats like 12 Angry Men.