If you leave your brain in neutral, you should have a fairly enjoyable ride.
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03/20/09
12 Rounds (2009)
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Reviews Counted:64
Fresh:18
Rotten:46
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Energetic but empty, 12 Rounds' preposterous plot hurtles along at a rapid pace, but can’t disguise the derivative script.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Mar 19, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $12,220,258
Synopsis: Finnish director Renny Harlin (CLIFFHANGER, DIE HARD 2) brings first-time screenwriter Daniel Kunka’s story to life in the fast-paced action film 12 ROUNDS. When New Orleans police officer Danny... [More]
Starring: John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris
Director: Renny Harlin
Reviews for 12 Rounds
Top CriticThis big-budget action thriller excels at dishing out a plot that's a bit like a chess game on speed.
03/14/09
Top CriticThere’s something strangely charming about films that are all artifice, explosions, and naked calculation. 12 Rounds is at least honest trash: It never pretends to be anything other than manic schlock.
03/30/09
Time for a revenge game cribbed right from the Die Hard series (and directed, hardly coincidentally, by Renny Harlin, who's an awfully long way from Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger here).
03/30/09
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04/23/09
With wrestling powerhouse WWE producing, chances are the statement, "Guys, this just doesn't make any sense," never came up during a script meeting. I can't fault 12 Rounds for being dumb. However, I will criticize 12 Rounds for being awful.
03/27/09
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.
05/29/09
A very satisfying and well made action thriller that could only be improved if Arnold Schwarzenegger was the star.
07/09/09
Harlin shakes the picture around as if he and the camera were constantly bouncing around in the bed of a rattletrap pickup truck.
04/03/09
So-so action movie has lots of fighting, other iffy stuff.
03/29/09
Yet another American thriller with little to engage the brain.
05/29/09
The lack of new ideas might not matter if the puzzles were fresh or entertaining, but they aren't. Director Renny Harlin has made enjoyably daft movies before, including Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight, but here he fails to set our pulses racing.
05/29/09
There's nothing here we haven't seen before, the action is laid on thick and fast with plenty of explosions and car chases, making this Big Dumb Fun of the first order.
05/29/09
The kind of passable in-flight entertainment you could watch half-asleep.
05/29/09
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04/23/09
12 Rounds's familiarity undercuts any kind of suspense it hopes to build, and for an action-packed romp it's incredibly dull.
05/29/09
The result is hardly a masterpiece, but it's better than it ought to be.
03/27/09
It is hard to know what is more depressing--the fact that Harlin is now reduced to making vanity projects for the WWE's film division or the fact that he can't even seem to pull something like that off anymore.
04/02/09
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”.
05/29/09
Top CriticHarlin makes good use of both the architecture of the city and of his formidably muscled leading man. But you will probably find yourself praying for this duel's knock-out punch to arrive long before it actually does.
03/30/09
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