12 Rounds (2009)

Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.

Director:

Renny Harlin

Writer:

Daniel Kunka

Stars:

John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Cena	...	Danny Fisher
Aidan Gillen	...	Miles Jackson
Ashley Scott	...	Molly Porter
Steve Harris	...	George Aiken
Brian White	...	Hank Carver
Gonzalo Menendez	...	Ray Santiago
Taylor Cole	...	Erica Kessen
Kyle Clements	...	Dave Fisher
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo	...	Willie Dumaine
Travis Davis	...	Anthony Deluso
Nick Gomez	...	Samuel
Brian Decaro	...	FBI Agent Gator
Rosalind Rubin	...	FBI Agent Sheila
Billy Slaughter	...	Technician
Kim Collins	...	Phil the Plumber

Storyline

Uniformed New Orleans PD officer Danny Fisher earns his promotion to detective to his near-rather lucky, albeit brave, arrest of ruthless terrorist arms-dealer Miles Jackson, whose girlfriend Erica Kessen got accidentally killed during the dirty FBI-operation. Exactly a year later, Miles has escaped and blows up Danny's house as foretaste of a Herculean race to accomplish twelve near-impossible tasks against the clock, otherwise his kidnapped wife Molly will be killed. Yet at the end, another master-plan is suspected.

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Plot Keywords:

detective | terrorist | first part | car | gun | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action

Details

Official Sites:

Twentieth Century-Fox [United States]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 March 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Zwölf Runden

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$22,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$5,329,240 (USA) (27 March 2009)

Gross:

£612,954 (UK) (5 June 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fox Atomic, Mark Gordon Company, The, Midnight Sun Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Renny Harlin: [Finland] Numerous reference to Renny Harlin's native Finland, such as the mentioning of Helsinki in dialog, a Finnish flag on the side of a motor home at the location of a car crashing into a boat, etc etc.

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Goofs

In the police car in the beginning of the movie, the date on the video of the girl says 7/17/08 (despite this being May 2008).

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Quotes

Det. Danny Fisher: I'm training the world's most dominant pug. He's going through a bulking phase.

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Connections

Followed by 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (2013)

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Soundtracks

Danny Boy
Written by Frederick Edward Weatherly (as Frederick Weatherly), Harold Samuel
Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes

User Reviews

You'll be surprised

As you may or may not know John Cena's film '12 Rounds' was released in Australia on the 19th of March.

Just got home from seeing it and i have to say it was great. Good, solid movie all the way through. Having Renny Harlin as director obviously helped make this a much better effort than previous WWE films. Don't want to give away too much cause i really think people will actually like this movie and that they should go see it. Good cast

• Brain J White was by far the stand out. But I have to say John's

performance was so much better this time around and you really can notice a difference between his acting ability in '12 Rounds' and 'The Marine'. He's not as tense and you can actually believe what he's saying. There are little tiny things (maybe like 2 moments in the film) that your like 'as if that could really happen' but the story keeps you too focused to really care.

If you like car chases, you'll like this. If you like John Cena, you'll like this. If you like a little Drama/Romance (Ladies?), you'll like this.

Go see it, I swear you'll be surprised.