12 Rounds
John Cena may not be having as good of a transition from Wrestler to actor as Dwayne Johnson, but he seems to be doing alright. Nothing makes me happier than to see non actors become movie stars. Wrestling is half acting anyways so I see WWE stars as half actors half athletes. In his latest foray into Hollywood he plays a New Orleans Police Detective.
When New Orleans Police 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.
Ranging from tests of intelligence to Sisyphean tasks of endurance, Miles keeps Danny guessing at every treacherous turn. Each new round sends Danny hurtling through the city at a breakneck pace. As Miles toys with Danny, innocent citizens are threatened. Automobiles, streetcars and ferryboats are transformed into potential weapons of mass destruction. With the violent rounds mounting, one wrong move may take the match closer to a deadly conclusion.
Most who like this genre will agree that John Cena's acting has saved this movie and allowed it to compete with the summer DVD offerings with a pretty good rating.
Good movie for those warm summer evenings.
***(out of five stars)
Release Date: Friday June 30 2009
Genre: Action / Adventure
Director: Renny Harlin
Producer(s): Josh McLaughlin, Mark Gordon
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Brian White
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