Thursday, March 26, 2009

Enduring near-lethal ‘12 Rounds’

John Cena plays a New Orleans detective forced into playing a deadly game with a vengeful escaped criminal. The rules of the game are ever-changing and his enemy’s not exactly honest about them, but to save his fiancée, the cop has no choice but to keep playing it. Cena may be covered up in uniform or regular clothes but you pretty much get the same furious wrestler acting. The idea that there are rounds of planned mayhem sounds clever, but the death traps and supposed mind games just become tedious. There are okay action scenes, but it gets hard to care even before you start to lose count of the challenges.

’12 Rounds’ is currently in theaters.

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