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Genres:
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Action /
Thriller
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Director:
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Renny Harlin
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Actors:
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Steve Harris,
Aidan Gillen,
Nick Gomez,
Kyle Russell Clements,
Billy Slaughter,
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo,
Travis Davis,
Brian Stanton,
Rosalind Rubin,
Kim Collins,
John Cena,
Ashley Scott,
Brian J. White,
Gonzalo Menendez,
Taylor Cole
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)132.5
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12 Rounds
Rob NelsonKnown in the WWE ring as the Dr. of Thuganomics, John Cena lacks even a bachelor of arts, to judge from his dropkick of a perf in 12 Rounds. Ludicrous pic casts Cena as a New Orleans cop whose fiancee is held hostage by an arms dealer with a grudge. Put through the titular paces, Cena's officer unsurprisingly prevails, while the viewer, even from a seated position, deserves a championship belt for surviving this overlong actioner. The film was withheld from critics before its wide opening, which should result in so-so B.O. for a weekend until the pic gets pinned.
Heavy on stunts but light on plausibility, humor, surprise, visual ingenuity or psychological depth helmer Renny Harlin's latest pic opens with cop Danny Fisher (Cena) hooking big catch Miles J...
Quite the Combination
This movie is by no means bad enough to coax a hundred words of hatred out of me. Cena is certainly no Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, but he left little to be offended by, and the overall cast performance was fine. Renny Harlin (director of the lesser of the Die Hard quadrillogy - Die Hard 2) keeps the action coming and tries to keep us interested. But watching a movie about a man who is forced into completing a number of tasks by a bad guy with some well placed bombs in public places is a little too alike the third of the Die Hard movies. And there is more. Watching, I couldn't help be reminded of other action movies, such as 'Speed' and 'The Rock', and the characters were very boring and one dimentional, so it's easy to see how a collaberation between Harlin&#...
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