12 Rounds

Escapist fun that provides an effective showcase for the blue-collar charisma and bulky good looks of its hyper-athletic lead, four-time World Champion wrestler John Cena (think Matt Damon, only twice the size).

There's something strangely charming about films that are all artifice, explosions, and naked calculation. 12 Rounds is at least honest trash: It never pretends to be anything other than manic schlock.

You will probably find yourself praying for this duel's knock-out punch to arrive long before it actually does.

Noisy, cut into a head-snapping blur with little room for Cena to even try showing emotion, 12 Rounds is an occasionally exciting but always empty experience.

There are, as you may have guessed, 12 rounds of this arbitrary nonsense. Annoying as the conceit may be, it neatly functions as a means to gauge how much is left to endure.

12 Rounds is the unholy stepchild of "Die Hard with a Vengeance" and "Speed," starring a man whose lack of range makes Steven Seagal seem nuanced by comparison.

The viewer, even from a seated position, deserves a championship belt for surviving this overlong actioner.

A bit better than i'd expected. My teen sons loved it. Explosions, crashes, car chases. Average. Doable. Harmless fun, won't win any oscars. Fun escapism.

Decent idea but tries too hard to be Die Hard: With a Vengeance. Even going as far as using the guy who directed Die Hard 2

I did actually think the film tried very hard and you can see the fruits of their efforts. Unfortunately I don't think that John Cena is that good an actor and the script wasn't very good either.

A poor man's 'Metro'....A vagrant's Die **** your poison is blow em & shoot em up with sub-par acting then by all means have at it. But this one really lacks teeth in most categories.

Il est bien loin le temps où Renny Harlin nous livrait d'excellents divertissements tels que 58 Minutes pour Vivre (Die Hard 2) et Cliffhanger. Et franchement, ce n'est pas avec 12 Rounds (renommà Shoot & Run) que le rÃalisateur va remonter la pente. Il en est même encore très loin, car ce film est d'une banalitÃ, d'une invraisemblance et d'un manque de fond inimaginables. En somme, ce film n'est qu'une simple resucÃe d'Une JournÃe en Enfer (à croire que Harlin voulait faire son Die Hard 3) dont la mise en scène clipesque lorgne vers le cinÃma de Tony Scott sans jamais l'Ãgaler (et sans compter la pauvretà du casting, du script et des dialogues). Bref, un vÃritable Ãchec. Alors pourquoi ne pas mettre une note plus basse? Juste par le fait que, finalement, on se laisse tout de même prendre au jeu pour passer le temps devant ce film à l'action non-stop abrutissant, qui ne vaut en rien les grands films d'action des 80's.