Review of 12 Rounds

I must admit, I did enjoy the trailer for this movie and I was immediately intrigued. It didn't take more than 10 first minutes of the movie for all the positive feelings to go down the drain. There are a couple of things that are just wrong: 1) John Cena, being possibly one of the worst actors ever. I have no idea who decided he can act: his face portrays no emotion whatsoever, even in scenes when he should be angry. His eyes lack of any feelings, the tone of his voice almost never changes. Even in the scenes where he is supposed to just stand, he does it with incompetence and discomfort. If somebody else was cast for his role, perhaps the movie was a little bit more watchable. 2) The movie is supposedly made by the same people who made Die Hard 2 and Speed. No kidding! Even without knowing that for sure, you'd be able to tell. All of the tricks used more than 10 years ago have been reincarnated. The question is, are you a really that much of an one trick pony to not be able to pull something original out of your sleeve? You can literally point out more than 10 motifs that are actually repeated again, like the terrorist on a bus; elevator crashing down; mass transit unit without brakes (I believe it was subway in Speed) and many many more. Plus, the ending kissing scene in a roof pool? We've seen that. Jumping from a roof to grab a helicopter? Seen it. You name it, we've seen it. 10 years ago. 3) The dialogs are sometimes painful to bear with and misplaced. Especially in the last scenes in the helicopter, whttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160368/usercomments-enterhen Molly yells Danny's name over and over and over and over again. 4) I won't point out how unreal the movie is - at this point it's obvious.

Generally: if you're Cena fan; if you like 90's style action movies and have not seen Speed or Die Hard, this might be just the movie for you. The remaining 98% of the population should really pass.