12 vs Primal Fear
Primal Fear has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.6/10 for 12). Primal Fear is the shorter watch at 2h 9m compared with 2h 39m. Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 2007). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.
12
Primal Fear| 12 | Primal Fear | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 1996 |
| Length | 2h 39m | 2h 9m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Nikita Mikhalkov | Gregory Hoblit |
| Main cast | Sergey Makovetskiy, Sergey Garmash, Mikhail Efremov, Oleksiy Horbunov, Sergey Gazarov | Jon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura Linney |
Synopsis
12
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 confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
Primal Fear
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.