Chicago – Renny Harlin’s “12 Rounds,” starring the WWE’s John Cena and now available on Blu-Ray and DVD, is a shockingly dull affair, an action film that tries to maintain a breakneck pace but forgets that movie rollercoasters are only fun with ups And downs instead of just a numbing series of stunt sequences.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.0/5.0 The reasonably effective Cena (although he had more to do in “The Marine”) plays a New Orleans police officer named Danny Fisher, an average cop who happens to stop a brilliant thief whose girlfriend is accidentally killed in the process. A year later, the thief has escaped from prison with only one apparent goal - enacting his revenge on Danny.
12 Rounds was released on Blu-Ray on June 30th, 2009.
Photo credit: Fox
The criminal mastermind unleashes a ridiculously plot-hole-filled series of challenges for our muscled hero, including stopping a moving cable car and escaping an about-to-drop elevator.
Blu-Ray Rating: 1.0/5.0 The reasonably effective Cena (although he had more to do in “The Marine”) plays a New Orleans police officer named Danny Fisher, an average cop who happens to stop a brilliant thief whose girlfriend is accidentally killed in the process. A year later, the thief has escaped from prison with only one apparent goal - enacting his revenge on Danny.
12 Rounds was released on Blu-Ray on June 30th, 2009.
Photo credit: Fox
The criminal mastermind unleashes a ridiculously plot-hole-filled series of challenges for our muscled hero, including stopping a moving cable car and escaping an about-to-drop elevator.
- 7/10/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blu-Ray Review
12 Rounds
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Cast: John Cena, Aiden Gillen, Ashley Scott
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due Out: June 30, 2009
Plot: To avenge the accidental killing of his girlfriend, a master thief (Gillen) kidnap’s a policeman’s (Cena) wife and forces the cop to follow twelve difficult steps to get her back before it’s too late.
Who’s It For? If destruction, explosions and fast cars sounds like the weekday afternoon of your dreams, then this Round is for you.
Movie:
John Cena will do anything for love. He’ll stop an out of control streetcar, dive onto a helicopter in midair, pull a man with “unfortunate girth” through an elevator escape hatch, and even turn a fire truck into a speeding bulldozer to save the woman that means more to him than the entire city of New Orleans. That’s just a sampling of...
12 Rounds
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Cast: John Cena, Aiden Gillen, Ashley Scott
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: PG-13
Due Out: June 30, 2009
Plot: To avenge the accidental killing of his girlfriend, a master thief (Gillen) kidnap’s a policeman’s (Cena) wife and forces the cop to follow twelve difficult steps to get her back before it’s too late.
Who’s It For? If destruction, explosions and fast cars sounds like the weekday afternoon of your dreams, then this Round is for you.
Movie:
John Cena will do anything for love. He’ll stop an out of control streetcar, dive onto a helicopter in midair, pull a man with “unfortunate girth” through an elevator escape hatch, and even turn a fire truck into a speeding bulldozer to save the woman that means more to him than the entire city of New Orleans. That’s just a sampling of...
- 7/6/2009
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
The animated blockbuster is back once again as Paramount/DreamWorks’ “Monsters vs. Aliens” animated comedy unspools into a massive 4,104 venues. Comparing animated weekend record holders, March holds some potent releases and is dominated by Fox. “Ice Age: The Meltdown” from Fox is the highest grossing March opener in the genre with over $68 million grossed, followed by the prequel at $46.3 million, the studio’s “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who” with $45 million and “Robots” at $36 million. “Monsters vs. Aliens” features a strong cast including Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson and Stephen Colbert. Also unveiled into a wide count is "12 Rounds" in 2331 theatres. The actioner directed by Renny Harlin is sent out by 20th Century Fox. WWE megastar John Cena looks teams with the director of “Die Hard 2.” Other cast includes Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Brian J. White, Aidan Gillen, Taylor Cole and Lara Grice.
- 3/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
A barrage of quality indie fare this week compliments a couple of seriously intriguing docs as well as some less than stellar genre fare as the blockbuster season of summer quietly inches ever closer.
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It's something of an irony that Renny Harlin, the man who made grown men cry with the abominable "Die Hard 2," should scratch out a paycheck at the helm of this derivative WWE Studios thriller with a plot that borrows so heavily from the infinitely superior "Die Hard With a Vengeance." Sporting the customary condom-full-of-bowling-balls physique, WWE grappler John Cena stars as New Orleans detective Danny Fisher, the target of much ham-fisted ire from international terrorist Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen), who blames Fisher for the death of his girlfriend. With his own girlfriend Molly (Ashley Scott) now held hostage by Jackson, Fisher becomes the pawn...
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"12 Rounds"
It's something of an irony that Renny Harlin, the man who made grown men cry with the abominable "Die Hard 2," should scratch out a paycheck at the helm of this derivative WWE Studios thriller with a plot that borrows so heavily from the infinitely superior "Die Hard With a Vengeance." Sporting the customary condom-full-of-bowling-balls physique, WWE grappler John Cena stars as New Orleans detective Danny Fisher, the target of much ham-fisted ire from international terrorist Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen), who blames Fisher for the death of his girlfriend. With his own girlfriend Molly (Ashley Scott) now held hostage by Jackson, Fisher becomes the pawn...
- 3/24/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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