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12 Rounds Reviews
While the movie offers plenty of coherent movie violence, it lacks innovation or a charismatic lead.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 2, 2023
12 Rounds has a real sense of urgency even if it gets boring by the end
| Mar 22, 2022
as a fast-food action director, Renny Harlin still delivers a fun movie
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2010
Heavy on stunts but light on plausibility, humor, surprise, visual ingenuity or psychological depth.
Full Review | Sep 1, 2009
Awfully forgettable, but Harlin makes things go boom again, with ruthless efficiency that puts the flick just over the hump of the straight-to-cable Jeff Speakman school. [Blu-ray]
| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 12, 2009
With all the nuance of a fist to the groin, ... (it's) the kind of forgettable film that isn't impossible to enjoy but that only a Cena fan could truly love.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 24, 2009
A very satisfying and well made action thriller that could only be improved if Arnold Schwarzenegger was the star.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2009
With its wonderful post-Katrina NOLA setting and the standard stunt spectacle as only Harlin can deliver, 12 Rounds is actually quite good. It's no masterpiece, but then again, few post-millennial adrenaline rushes have been.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 4, 2009
...a decent action movie that could've been a great one...
| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2009
Loud, idiotic nonsense.
| Jun 2, 2009
Apart from the palpably improbable storyline, Harlan shows a massive disregard for characterisation, and so much bang-bang editing that you scarcely know where you are.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2009
Cena has the sort of likeable air that suggests he could just make it as an action movie type. However, it won't be thanks to this movie.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2009
12 Rounds is a big chunk of outlandish nonsense stuck in a time-warp of conventions, bereft of originality and genuine thrills.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009
This is a welcome throwback for audiences raised on '90s action flicks - what they used to call "a pulse-pounding roller-coaster thrill-ride of a movie".
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2009
While 12 Rounds is well above average for an action movie, it's important not to get too carried away. This is, after all, a picture in which leading lady Ashley Scott is less appealing than her pet pug.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2009
A lunk-headed, brawling action movie with more muscle than brains and the kind of editing that feels like being repeatedly shot in the eyes with a staple gun.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009
One long blur of car stunts and digital clocks counting down to detonation - passable for lazy television viewing, but not worth the price of a ticket.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009
It remains to be seen whether this crude, dumbly entertaining outing will encourage the director to tackle more of the Greek myths.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2009
12 Rounds's familiarity undercuts any kind of suspense it hopes to build, and for an action-packed romp it's incredibly dull.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 29, 2009