12

Name: 12
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, War
Released: March 4, 2009
Duration: 159 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Apti Magamaev, Sergei Makovetsky, Sergey Garmash

2009

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: March 4, 2009 | PG-13

Starring: Apti Magamaev, Sergei Makovetsky, Sergey Garmash

Summary: A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, 12 is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confessA loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, 12 is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks. (Sony Picture Classics)… Expand

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime, War

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 159 min

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Michelle Orange

Miklahkov keeps 12 tops spinning at all times in the school gymnasium that serves as their deliberation room, and though the speech/conversion pattern grows a little pat, the movement toward consensus raises the further, richly complicated question of how to decide not only what is right, but what is best. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

The time passes quickly. This is the rare remake that does honor to the spirit of the original. Read full review

Bob Mondello

The title is shorter, but that's the only thing remotely diminished about 12, Nikita Mikhalkov's exuberantly Russian reworking of Reginald Rose's 1950s jury-room play, "12 Angry Men." Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

The tradition of Russian stage acting enriches this satisfying update of Reginald Rose's TV play "Twelve Angry Men." Read full review

Noel Murray

Rarely has the voyeuristic appeal of sitting on a jury been so cleverly expressed. Read full review

Peter Rainer

I haven't heard this much shouting in a movie since the first hour of "Full Metal Jacket." Read full review

Rick Groen

Yes, Mikhalkov has set himself quite the agenda, but in the end the film is too much of a piece with its topic, intensely fascinating yet seriously flawed. The verdict? Guilty, with extenuating circumstances. Read full review

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Mar 5, 2009

A masterpiece. Yet one more by Nikita Mihalkov!!!