12 Rounds is an action-packed thriller that drives a detective relentlessly through the streets of New Orleans in answer to 12 bizarre punishment rituals that look like devil’s challenges.
The detective played by John Cena has his hands tied. The challenges emanate from an internationally known terrorist who has kidnapped his girl friend and is holding her hostage to wreck vengeance on Cena. Cena has to continue playing every daredevil game he has been asked to play, juggling courage, fear, risk, time, and every other factor that action thrillers are required to throw into the ring.
The movie suffers from a surfeit of stunts. And the stunts are some sort of travesty of daredevilry, and might disappoint even stunt lovers. A sample stunt is one that involves driving a fire truck across the city and bulldozing property. His adventures around a brakeless car and the medical helicopter are the only ones that give some respite.
Kidnapped girlfriends seem to be Cena’s routine cross, the way he was seen caught in a similar situation in his earlier movie ‘The Marine’ as well.
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The haunted-house concept is nothing new in the movie world. In this new movie based on the old idea, director Peter Cornwell is exploring it from another angle by trying to incorporate it into a cancer patient’s pain.
The house, that the family of three – made up of the patient and his parents – occupies, has a past as a funeral home and center of séances. The saving grace of the place for them is that it is near where the teenager patient is getting treated. The shadowy past throws its evidence around in the form of blood and gore and eerie sounds and shadows. But the suffering teenager is not sure how much of it is real and how much is medicine-induced hallucination, till he takes a co-patient into confidence.
The problem with the movie is that somehow its spookiness angle does not gel properly. Despite its PG-13 stamp, it looks more like a family saga, or one that derives its strength from human emotions. Horror movies have to horror-driven, or they may end up as senseless travesties.
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This latest offering from Paramount Pictures has taken 3-D animation technology to such levels that one may wonder whether live actors could soon become redundant. The unique animated characters of the movie straddle the worlds of science fiction and folk tale.
The main characters are Susan, who gets mutated into a 50’ monster when a meteorite struck her on her wedding day; Dr. Cockroach, a scientist with the head of a roach; B.O.B, a brainless, glutinous mass of a creature; Insectosaurus, a 350’ insect larva; and Missing Link, an ancient ape-fish combination strongman.
All of them are tagged monsters and remain incarcerated in a segregated facility, providing enough visual entertainment for the audience. Their time come when aliens invade the earth. The beleaguered president, on the advice of his general, releases the so-called monsters to fight the invaders. The president and his general are two of the few live characters in the movie.
The whole cast of the invading alien and his self-cloning army is also 3-dimensional, making the Armageddon at the end also a visual delight with heightened 3-D effects.
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