10 Even More Movie Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won

In many respects the beauty of 12 Angry Men is that it's not really concerned with who committed the central murder, but simply whether the jury can agree that the victim's son committed the act beyond a reasonable doubt.

Yet the film's ending, where Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) finally persuades the entire jury to return a "not guilty" verdict, has a pretty bleak implication for the murder investigation itself.

If you accept that the boy didn't commit the murder, then the killer is still out there, but if the boy did kill his father - certainly a distinct possibility per the movie's ambiguous ending - then he's released back into the wild, free to potentially kill again in the future.

Either way, rather than ending the movie with a tidy final scene where the killer is categorically caught, the person who killed the man - whoever they are - isn't brought to justice.

It's easy to gloss over this given that the film is generally focusing its energies elsewhere and basically implies a triumphant ending, no matter that someone who committed murder is walking around free.