In many respects, Nikita Mikhalkov's
12 resembles a musical jam based on a familiar riff -- in fact, if anything, it reminds one of what the Allman Brothers did with Donovan's "There Is a Mountain" on their "Mountain Jam." Mikhalkov (who also plays a restrained but pivotal role in the movie) has taken Reginald Rose's
12 Angry Men -- which started life as a live television drama on
Studio One, about American perceptions and prejudices of the mid-'50s -- and transposed it with a superb cast into an extended exploration of truth and justice as it exists in Russia in the early 21st century. Mikhalkov, who staged the original before pursuing this film...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
159 mins