Review of 12 Angry Men (1957) by Afm185 — 21 Jun 2020

I heard this movie was perfect. And for what it is, for what it’s based on, I have a hard time disagreeing. I genuinely don’t know how much better this movie could possibly be. It’s set in a single room for at least a 98% majority of it.

Meaning it’s not visually interesting, especially because it’s a black and white movie, but that’s not something that bothered me aside from the start. That’s something I should talk about I suppose.

At the start I wasn’t convinced I would enjoy the movie and then it really started and I really got into it. The characters are interesting, and though not everyone is super fleshed out, they don’t really need to be at all.

You get all you really need from each of them. The story is simple but it’s everything it needs to be to create an interesting experience, the acting is pretty phenomenal. For my personal enjoyment I thought it was great.

As a film making achievement it’s also pretty great. It depicts a very real-feeling situation. Not that it’s something that would happen every day but in the context of the story they laid out it all makes total sense.

And frankly it’s fascinating. The dialogue isn’t always amazing but that fact makes sense given they’re showing us real people.