Wow. I am at a loss of words. I simply cannot believe how perfectly made this movie is. Everything comes together in perfect harmony; The astoundigly well-written and 3-dimentional characters, all with their own unique set of quirks and ways of speech, and all backed up by excellent performances. The way personal opinions and prejudices hinder the factual discussions in really interesting ways, and how several character go through satisfying arcs as they realize what they're saying. The perfect pacing and the plot which doesn't give anything away for free. There is no definitive answer, we don't get to see the murder happen. All we get is 12 strangers talking about it for 90 minutes.
There's something mesmerizing about the unraveling of the mystery, the way each consecutive point made builds logically on what has previously been said, the way the camera slowly spirals lower and lower and the increasing use of close-ups to establish the increasing uneasiness among the men. I also absolutely adore the simplicity of it all. There has been a lot of movies mostly taking place in one room, Quentin Tarantino particularly is quite good at only using a few locations, but I am fairly confident in saying that there has never been, and probably never will be, any movie pull it off quite like this one. I can easily see why it's at number 5 on the IMDb rank, and I'm also confident in saying it's pretty damn high on mine. What a cinematic masterpiece.
There's something mesmerizing about the unraveling of the mystery, the way each consecutive point made builds logically on what has previously been said, the way the camera slowly spirals lower and lower and the increasing use of close-ups to establish the increasing uneasiness among the men. I also absolutely adore the simplicity of it all. There has been a lot of movies mostly taking place in one room, Quentin Tarantino particularly is quite good at only using a few locations, but I am fairly confident in saying that there has never been, and probably never will be, any movie pull it off quite like this one. I can easily see why it's at number 5 on the IMDb rank, and I'm also confident in saying it's pretty damn high on mine. What a cinematic masterpiece.