12 Rounds (2009)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 49
Energetic but empty, 12 Rounds' preposterous plot hurtles along at a rapid pace, but can't disguise the derivative script.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 12
Energetic but empty, 12 Rounds' preposterous plot hurtles along at a rapid pace, but can't disguise the derivative script.
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WWE star John Cena headlines his sophomore action picture as a police officer whose wife is kidnapped in New Orleans. Daniel Kunka provides the script, with Deep Blue Sea's Renny Harlin handling the directing duties for the 20-million-dollar Fox Atomic/WWE Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Cast
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John Cena
Danny Fisher -
Steve Harris
George Aiken -
Ashley Scott
Molly Porter -
Aidan Gillen
Miles Jackson -
Brian J. White
Hank Carver -
Gonzalo Menendez
Ray Santiago -
Taylor Cole
Erica Kessen -
Kyle Clements
Dave Fisher -
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo
Willie Dumaine -
Travis Davis
Anthony Deluso -
Nick Gomez
Samuel -
Brian DeCaro
FBI Agent Gator -
Rosalind Rubin
FBI Agent Sheila -
Billy Slaughter
Technician -
Kim Collins
Phil the Plumber -
Lara Grice
Cell Store Owner -
Wayne Ferrara
Battallion Commander -
Douglas M. Griffin
Peter Gerard -
Vincent Flood
Detective Chuck Jansen -
Luke Albright
Johnny Jenkins -
Bryan Johnson
Sleeping Streetcar Pass... -
David Frye
Officer Phelps
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All Critics (71) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (49) | DVD (8)
Heavy on stunts but light on plausibility, humor, surprise, visual ingenuity or psychological depth.
Top CriticThere's a decent little action movie somewhere inside '12 Rounds': a bit more complexity of character, a few more jokes and a hero who doesn't look like a two-by-four with a buzz cut might have gone a long way.
A graceless scrap between a Die Hard flick and the public-transportation mayhem of Speed.
12 Rounds is an occasionally exciting but always empty action movie experience.
12 Rounds is the unholy stepchild of Die Hard with a Vengeance and Speed, starring a man whose lack of range makes Steven Seagal seem nuanced by comparison.
The future of vacuous action movies is clearly with the likes of Cena, humans who resemble characters from video games, albeit without the acting chops.
as a fast-food action director, Renny Harlin still delivers a fun movie
Awfully forgettable, but Harlin makes things go boom again, with ruthless efficiency that puts the flick just over the hump of the straight-to-cable Jeff Speakman school. [Blu-ray]
With all the nuance of a fist to the groin, ... (it's) the kind of forgettable film that isn't impossible to enjoy but that only a Cena fan could truly love.
A very satisfying and well made action thriller that could only be improved if Arnold Schwarzenegger was the star.
With its wonderful post-Katrina NOLA setting and the standard stunt spectacle as only Harlin can deliver, 12 Rounds is actually quite good. It's no masterpiece, but then again, few post-millennial adrenaline rushes have been.
...a decent action movie that could've been a great one...
Loud, idiotic nonsense.
Apart from the palpably improbable storyline, Harlan shows a massive disregard for characterisation, and so much bang-bang editing that you scarcely know where you are.
Cena has the sort of likeable air that suggests he could just make it as an action movie type. However, it won't be thanks to this movie.
This is a welcome throwback for audiences raised on '90s action flicks - what they used to call "a pulse-pounding roller-coaster thrill-ride of a movie".
While 12 Rounds is well above average for an action movie, it's important not to get too carried away. This is, after all, a picture in which leading lady Ashley Scott is less appealing than her pet pug.
A lunk-headed, brawling action movie with more muscle than brains and the kind of editing that feels like being repeatedly shot in the eyes with a staple gun.
One long blur of car stunts and digital clocks counting down to detonation - passable for lazy television viewing, but not worth the price of a ticket.
It remains to be seen whether this crude, dumbly entertaining outing will encourage the director to tackle more of the Greek myths.
12 Rounds's familiarity undercuts any kind of suspense it hopes to build, and for an action-packed romp it's incredibly dull.
Those in the mood for something kinda dumb but lotsa fun look no further.
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