This ain't the real 12 Rounds. Not the actual movie. It's more like a storyboard. Or an animatic. That's it. Just to give you an idea of what the real movie's gonna look like. Man, you're gonna love it, I swear.
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03/30/09
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
12 Rounds is an occasionally exciting but always empty action movie experience.
03/30/09
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.
03/30/09
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.
03/30/09
Renny Harlin’s 12 Rounds satisfies, on the most primitive level, the expectations for a second-rate action flick.
03/30/09
Top CriticDirector Renny Harlin keeps the wall-to-wall action hurtling along at such breakneck speed, that it's not hard to get swept up in the crash-and-explode craziness of it all.
03/30/09
Top Critic12 Rounds is too long, and about 80 minutes in you'll give up trying to make sense of the thing.
03/30/09
Wrestling star John Cena is the dead weight that drags down this brainless but energetic action picture.
03/30/09
Harlin 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
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
There’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
So-so action movie has lots of fighting, other iffy stuff.
03/29/09
suffers from more or less the same problem as The Marine: it's stupid, but not quite delightfully stupid
03/29/09
Preposterous, but undeniably entertaining, an action flick powered on enough pure adrenaline to forgive the gaping plot holes. Almost.
03/29/09
Feels like it was written by high school students who have watched Die Hard a lot.
03/29/09
Renny Harlin's 12 Rounds attempts to put the final nail into the coffin of the static shot.
03/29/09
Preposterous in its perverse practicality, 12 Rounds flexes its cheapened muscles more than its monosyllabic star Cena does in a 20-minute match-up on Monday Night Raw.
03/28/09
Even the non-stop action of this movie isn't enough to conceal how completely nonsensical it is.
03/28/09
Parental Content Review
03/27/09
It's Sudoku. With corpses!
03/27/09
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