in the end it turns out to be a little less mindless than i had thought, but up until that point the clues in the rounds are so painfully obvious that it really reveals the intelligence level of the average professional wrestling fan. now if it had more explosions and violence i probably would have liked it more, i wonder what that says about my intelligence?

One might think that reducing a city to rubble for 108 minute could not be overly boring. It can. 12 Rounds is a brillantly boring orgy of destruction because Cena is not Bruce Willis and 12 Rounds is never even close to be any part of Die Hard. 01/12/09

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"...the only reason Harlin's fun ride isn't completely compulsory is the overarching debt it must pay to all those 1980s actioners it emulates."

A goofy mid-90s action movie that happens to have been made in the late 00s. Plenty of crashed vehicles and explosions, although sadly no tits. John Cena is no Arnold or Stallone, but I'd put him about on par with Seagal or Norris as far as dramatic talent.

Renny Harlin proves once again that he can't direct worth crap. I saw this hoping it'd be a "so bad it's good" movie like The Marine, but aside from a few WTF laughs, this action thriller fails to build any suspense or tension despite a decent premise--even if it was one done much better in Die Hard 3.

Speed plus Die Hard 3 would seem like a good idea, but when you add The Marine to the equation you get a total turdfest of a movie. Filled with terrible dialogue, bad acting, not an ounce of originality, and worst of all it's an action film that isn't fun.

Once again Cena delivers joyful entertainment with absolutely no brains. Acting and screenplay are horrible but who cares?

Everytime I see a professional wrestler trying to find his place in the acting department, I literally start to chuckle. Renny Harlin gives one of the most incompetent, useless, floundering, inept and pointless efforts to regerenate and capture the praise and success of his previous hits (Die Hard and Speed as far as I'm concerned). It's predictable, it's calculable and foreseeable in every possible way. It's a good thing that crap like this is struggling and gradually slumping in earnings. Bad.

I actually liked The Marine, it was decent enough. However John Cena decided to follow it up by downgrading himself from a D list actor to an F list actor. The plot was just disgustingly childish, the action was lame, and overall the film featured 12 Rounds too many. Grade: D

It's like a less bloody, unfunny and less exciting version of "Die Hard With A Vengeance." It is, however, for a WWE films production almost a masterpiece. A little more blood and some bad words might actually make me tell people to watch it.

Veteran action director Harlin loads up on the standard barrage of car chases and fist-pumping action, but a shoddy script leaves much to be explained. WWE wrestler Cena proves capable of handling his new career but he's no Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, as sad as that may sound.

Wow! John Cena makes another movie, reminded me alot of the Marine and thats not really a good thing. This movie has some pretty bad acting, script writting, plot summary, and well it just over all sucked. I watched this simply to see how bad in comparison to his other film the Marine and i would say this one was a bit better because i was busting a gut from laughter. Ive never seen a cop stop a man with a boat b4 but it was that kind of stuff that made this so irrististably funny!

This movie, from the producers of the atrocious Cena vehicle 'The Marine,' is a blatant rip-off of 'Die Hard with a Vengeance' and 'Speed' blended together. The acting is mostly terrible, with Cena being the the worst presence of all. How this dodged the straight-to-DVD bin is beyond me. On a surface level this is an easily watchable action movie that's not the worst you'll ever see, but it really hinges on Cena's shoulders and the man doesn't have the charisma or delivery to carry the project.