"12 Rounds" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Old Guy]

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Starring: John Cena
Directed by Renny Harlin
Genres: Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
Release Date: March 27th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action.
Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution

Summary: When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief, Miles, from getting away with a multi-million-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with a series of near-impossible puzzles and tasks... 12 rounds... that Danny must somehow complete to save the life of his fiancee.

[The Penguin]

I went and saw it this afternoon. It's a big, dumb action movie, but sometimes that's okay and it manages to be pretty fun. I'd say this a more ambitious effort for Cena than The Marine (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=176212) was and I think he shows improvement.

Miles Jackson is a thinking man's evil criminal and I like the concept of him putting Fisher through all the different rounds. There are plenty of action movie cliches that are perhaps a bit funnier than they are intended to be, but for the most part it still works. The video on SmackDown this week pretty much shows you the whole movie except in the wrong order.

WWE even manages to slip an old theme song into the movie which I will put in a spoiler box for those reading my comments who want to be surprised (even though by entering a thread labeled "Spoilers" you've already been warned)...

Mark Henry's old theme song "Sexual" makes a pretty funny "cameo" appearance.