John Cena’s 12 Rounds brings to the audience 12 rounds of unadulterated action from start to finish. John Cena is Danny Fisher, a police officer whose life changed when he unknowingly caught a terrorist Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen).
Fast forward to a year later and Danny Fisher is now a detective of the New Orleans police department and has a lovely girlfriend Molly (Ashley Scott). Everything seems to work for him until learns got out that Miles escaped from prison and this is when his nightmare began.
12 Rounds is a cross between Saw, Speed and Die Hard. Miles kidnapped Danny’s girlfriend and makes him complete 12 rounds of puzzles in order to get her back. Just like in the Saw movies, Danny must complete a puzzle to get to advance to the next one.
Even though 12 Rounds doesn’t bring anything new to the action genre, it is refreshing to see an action movie with no noticeable CGI used. Not that I don’t want to see digitized effect in movies but sometimes it is good to see action stunts, car chases, big explosions and fight scenes done the old fashion way.
Det. Danny Fisher (John Cena): I’m training the world’s most dominant pug. He’s going through a bulking phase.
It turned out that Miles planned everything not as revenge but to steal the treasury mints. Kidnapping Molly is just ploy to divert the attention from the real target. Miles could have done the perfect crime but Danny was there to foil it.
I didn’t know Molly could fly a helicopter but she did. Anyway just as the bomb was set to go off, Danny and Molly managed to jump off it into a swimming pool. The helicopter exploded with Miles still in it.
If you are an avid action movie fan, then 12 Rounds is just right for you. I was entertained by this one and will probably watch the next John Cena if ever WWE Films would still produce one in the future.
