12 Rounds of Renny Harlin please with a side order of John Cena
12 Rounds has been out for a quite a while but I finally got a chance to see it at my friends place, thought would be a good idea to throw together a quick review.
Ok I put my hands up ! guilty as charged I’m a bit of a sucker for Renny Harlin movies, there I said it and I’m not ashamed… yes he did make arguably one of the worst pirate movies ever made “Cutthroat Island” followed by “Long Kiss Goodnight”. But lets not forget he also made Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger both good solid action driven movies, oh and I almost forgot Mindhunters great movie very atmospheric, fair go to the producers to put money into the following formula
Christian Slater + Val Kilmer + Renny Harlin = Good Movie
who would have thought it.
Back to the review, 12 rounds has all the hallmarks (hate that bloody word) of a well paced flick, there’s action a plenty and its well paced there some nice stunts and and an ok story if your not familiar with Die Hard III it follows in the same vein.
Cop pisses of nutty bomber, nutty bomber returns with a vengenance gets cop to jump through hoops to save kidnapped wife but wait theres a twist in the tale (a bit obvious) and thats it, entertaing and dumb but not boring.
One more thing I should mention John Cena CANNNOT ACT !!! he’s Ok jumping around doing his WWE tricks but in the more dramatic scenes he’s pretty hopeless. Just though I mentioned that just to piss off any Cena fans !
Hulkamania rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!