Recensioni di Metacritic

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.

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

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."

Expansively, dramatically, magnificently Russian, Nikita Mikhalkov's loose remake of "12 Angry Men" plays like vintage jazz from a veteran band.

With its thunderous drama and larger-than-life characters, which lend it a brawling energy, 12 is never dull.

There is an unnerving and hopefully implausible twist at the end, but for the most part, Mikhalkov's 12 is magnetic.

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

Has none of the crisp passion or suspense of the 1957 Sidney Lumet version; it's bloated, heavy-handed, and lugubrious.

The new film's not only almost double the length of the original, it's four times as ambitious - a sprawling, surrealist, ultimately disturbing portrait of a society lurching uncertainly toward democracy. What's really on trial in this movie? Just the Russian soul.

No matter how bad things get, you can always be thankful for this: You're not on trial for murder in Russia.