Title: One Angry Reviewer
Product review: No amount of money or updating can master the original12 Angry Menmasterpiece. Although I really like George C. Scott's role that Lee J. Cobb originated, I see nothing redeeming in this remake. Jack Lemon's talents are wasted in this film and he is actually a poor choice for the role. I would have preferred someone like Tom Hanks in Fonda's original role.In addition, the senseless foul language added to the original script does nothing for the film except "update" it a bit with how we speak today, but it still reeked as being unnecessary. William Friedkin is a very skilled director (The Exorcist,The French Connection, et. al.), but this is just not his genre at all and, therefore, his talents are wasted as much as everyone else's in this remake.
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