12
Rounds is not a good movie. It’s not
a horrible movie, but it’s not a
good movie either. John Cena is
awesome through the whole thing and
he’s surprisingly not a bad actor.
The rest of the cast in the movie
however is borderline terrible.
There are some big problems with
actual acting in this movie and
there are some big issues with the
script too… some terrible moments in
this movie where emotion is trying
to be created and there’s really no
emotion to create. 12 Rounds doesn’t
work on those two levels.
12 Rounds is set up like this. Cena
is a beat cop by the name of Danny
Fisher. Him and his partner Hank
Carver (Brian White) are on their
beat trying to help the feds catch
one the world’s most wanted men-
Miles Jackson- who is in New Orleans
doing some arms dealing and some
other bad juju. Fisher spots Jackson
and his girlfriend at a stop light
and chases the two down until
unfortunately, Jackson’s girlfriend
gets ran over and dies. Jackson then
vows revenge against Fisher on the
spot to take away what he loves
most, just like he claims Fisher did
to him. A year later Jackson escapes
from prison, kidnaps his foe’s
girlfriend Molly (played by Ashley
Scott) and forces Fisher into twelve
rounds of his sick game. From there Cena franticly moves around New
Orleans to complete tasks for
Jackson so he won’t kill Molly.
The biggest problem with
12 Rounds
is the cast, Miles Jackson, played by
Aidan Gillen is the biggest under
exaggeration of a villain that I’ve
ever seen. He’s not scary. Irishmen
aren’t scary. We’re not. We’re tough
as hell but not really that scary.
You want a scary villain? Russia or
Austria is where you need to go.
Those guys can be scary. The other
big knocks aren’t on the casting,
but on the acting... Steve Harris
plays Special Agent George Aiken and
while he’s usually pretty good, he
wasn’t right for that part. We’ll
just say sarcasm isn’t his strong
point. Other actors in the movie are
downright filthy in places too.
A better script and a better cast
would have done a ton for
12 Rounds.
John Cena proved that he’s a capable
lead man, but as a product 12 Rounds
falls flat.
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