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2009 Action Aidan Gillen Ashley Scott Becki Cross Trujillo Billy Slaughter Brian J White Brian Stanton Crime Daniel Kunka Gonzalo Menendez John Cena Josh McLaughlin Kim Collins Kyle Russell Clements Lara Grice Mark Gordon Mike Lake Nick Gomez Peter Navy Tuiasosopo Renny Harlin Rosalind Rubin Steve Harris Taylor Cole Travis Davis Trevor Rabin Vince McMahon Wayne Ferrara
Plot Outline: Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) is about to have the worst day of his life. A nearly untraceable internationally-known terrorist named Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen) has kidnapped his girlfriend Molly Porter (Ashley Scott) and forced him into "12 Rounds" of dangerous games carefully plotted throughout the streets of New Orleans. Danny struggles to keep focus while the obvious ticking clocks and crude consequences that accompany each one of these "rounds" do their best to derail him from rescuing the love of his life before it's too late
Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Crime
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 108 minutes
Rating: 5.3/10
Languages: English
Director:
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Writing by :
Daniel Kunka - written by)
Produced by:
Becki Cross Trujillo - producer
Mark Gordon - producer
Renny Harlin - producer
Mike Lake - producer
Josh McLaughlin - producer
Vince McMahon - producer
Cast:
John Cena - Det. Danny Fisher
Aidan Gillen - Miles Jackson
Ashley Scott - Molly Porter
Steve Harris - Special Agent George Aiken
Brian J. White - Det. Hank Carver
Gonzalo Menendez - Special Agent Ray Santiago
Taylor Cole - Erica Kessen
Kyle Russell Clements - Dave Fisher
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo - Willie Dumaine
Travis Davis - Anthony Deluso
Nick Gomez - Samuel
Brian Stanton - 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
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Plot:Ads and trailers for "12 Rounds" the new action film starring wrestler John Cena proudly proclaim "from the director of 'Die Hard 2'". I think that in the very near future, we will witness some ads for television shows proudly proclaiming "from the director of 'Die Hard 2'". "12 Rounds" makes "Die Hard 2" look like Shakespeare.
Police officers Danny Fisher (Cena) and Hank Carver (Brian White) are out on patrol when they get word that the FBI is tracking international terrorist, Miles Jackson (Aiden Gillen, HBO's "The Wire", the British version of "Queer as Folk") through the French Quarter. Danny is a little out of it as he and his girlfriend, Molly (Ashley Scott) have just moved into a place, together, living together for the first time, and she is already talking about marriage. Driving through the Ninth Ward, they come to a red light next to a BMW driven by a beautiful woman. Danny quickly realizes he has seen this woman in surveillance footage of Miles, she is Miles' girlfriend, and they pursue the car. One thing leads to another and these two officers, but more so Danny, have arrested Miles and his girlfriend is dead. A year later, Danny and Hank have been promoted to Detective and still work together trying to keep the streets of New Orleans safe. As Danny leaves his house, he gets a phone call from Miles. Miles has escaped from prison and wants to play a little game. If Danny follows the instructions and is successful, he will get Molly back. Miles wants to take away the thing Danny loves most in retaliation for the death of his girlfriend. As Danny listens to this message, he realizes he has no choice and begins racing through the streets of New Orleans, trying to keep up with the madman's requests. Along the way, he gets Hank involved and the FBI agents who botched the original arrest, hard as nails Special Agent George Aiken (Steve Harris, TV's "The Practice") and his more compassionate partner Special Agent Ray Santiago (Gonzalvo Menendez) insist on becoming involved. But what is Miles really after?
"Die Hard II", "Cliffhanger", "Cutthroat Island", "The Long Kiss Goodnight"), the new film certainly has all of the action elements that made Harlin's good films so memorable. But "12 Rounds" also has all of the bad elements that made Harlin's bad films so very, very terrible.
But let's start with Cena. This is his second film and the wrestler is being groomed to become a movie star. But from the first moment he appears on screen, you immediately realize he has to have been a wrestler; he is massive and looks like an oak tree, so it will be difficult for him to play a variety of roles. But I don't say this simply because of his physical stature. I say this because of his lack of screen charisma. He is always so serious, so dour, so intent, so joyless I don't expect he will ever be able to cross over to dramas or romance or comedies. He may get typecast in action roles, the type of films where he is always a detective, always in the army (special ops) or always someone out to get the bad guys. I suspect he may become the next Sylvester Stallone. When he has one hit film, his career will be made from countless sequels.
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Trivia:
- Break Videos: 12 Rounds Movie Trailer 2009
- DailyMotion: John Cena: 12 Rounds Trailer
- Google video: John Cena Funny scene 12 Rounds
- Metacafe: John Cena: 12 Rounds Trailer
- My Space Video: john cena live with jimmey kammel
- Tudou: 12 Rounds Search
- Yahoo Video: 12 Rounds: Miles Jackson
- Youku: 12 Rounds
- YouTube: 12 Rounds Trailer - Starring John Cena - WWE Films
