12 Rounds (film)
Encyclopedia
12 Rounds is a 2009 American action film
directed by Renny Harlin
and produced by WWE Studios. The cast is led by professional wrestler
John Cena
, alongside Steve Harris
, Gonzalo Menendez, Aidan Gillen
, Brian J. White
, Ashley Scott
, and Taylor Cole
. The film was released on March 27, 2009 in theaters.
to capture notorious arms dealer Miles Jackson, the FBI assigns a terrorist named Samuel to play the role of buyer in exchange for his brother Joshua's freedom. Unbeknownst to them, Miles has cut his own deal with Samuel. The Feds see Miles call Sam on his cell phone, but cannot tap the line as Miles always uses encrypted phones. Miles arrives at the meeting place. Sam shoots Miles and has his men drag him to a van. Sam gets in the back with Miles, who was wearing Kevlar, and they drive off. The director of the sting operation, George Aiken, finds out that Joshua has been sprung from the safehouse holding him. Sam pays Miles, but he expresses disgust at Sam's lack of loyalty to anyone but his brother and kills him. Miles' girlfriend, Erica Kessen, waits for him with a getaway car.
Officer Danny Fisher and his partner, Officer Hank Carver, are dispatched to help the FBI. On their way, they look at Miles' record and see a surveillance video of him dancing with Erica. At a traffic light, Danny spots Erica. They pull her over and Danny tells her to pop the trunk. She complies, and Miles comes out shooting, wounding Hank. Erica drives off and Danny pursues on foot. He take a shortcut through narrow alleys and a house, losing his gun on the way. He pushes a parked boat into Erica's path and she crashes into it. Picking up Miles' gun, he orders them to freeze. They both run, Erica into the path of an oncoming SUV. She is killed instantly. As backup arrives and Miles is taken away, he swears vengeance on Danny.
One year later, Danny gets a phone call from Miles, who has escaped from prison. He says that he is close. Danny grabs his badge and gun and runs outside the house looking for Miles. Danny's car and house explode, throwing Danny to the ground. After he recovers, Miles says he is launching a game of revenge called "12 Rounds". The house, the car, and Phil (the plumber who came to fix a broken pipe) were "Round 1". Danny runs towards the ferry station, where his girlfriend Molly is.
Molly boards the ferry. Miles' henchman, Anthony Deluso, borrows her cell phone under a false pretext, preventing Danny from getting through. Danny reaches the station too late to stop the ferry. He commandeers a car and speeds towards the other side. On his way, he calls Hank, tells him what has happened, and asks him to call the Department of Transportation and have the ferry stopped at the station.
Danny and Hank arrive at the station, but there is no sign of Molly. He tries her cell phone and Miles answers. He has Molly tied up in the back of his car. This was "Round 2". Miles promises that if Danny does all that he says and lives through all 12 rounds, he will let Molly go.
For "Round 3", Miles will call a cell phone in 15 minutes. Danny and Hank must follow a series of clues to locate the cell phone. When Danny answers it, Miles says a fire has broken out in the New Orleans Savings and Loan; the fire alarm segues into Round 4. Danny has to get there and extract two security deposit boxes within 20 minutes. Hank has a lead on the man who helped kidnap Molly, and volunteers to look into that while Danny continues with the "game".
FBI Agents George Aiken and Ray Santiago approach Danny and ask about Miles Jackson. Danny is livid that the Feds did not tell him Miles broke out of prison, but agrees to work with them to get Molly back. The Feds tell Danny that Miles used a prison riot as cover to escape, and that this revenge game is a good opportunity to recapture him. At the scene of the fire, Danny runs in with the firefighters through the smoke-covered corridors, and they find the security boxes. Both have timers. Miles calls and says Round 5 has started.
One of the boxes is a bomb, while the other contains a clue to the next round. Danny has to get to the Nicholls Street Wharf. The bomb is set to go off in 7 minutes, and Miles advises him to use a firetruck. With a long way downstairs, Danny goes out the window, riding down a long spool of cable. He hijacks a firetruck and races through the streets. With less than 20 seconds to go, he reaches the wharf. A bell goes off from inside one of the boxes. Danny throws it into the water, where it explodes.
Danny has the bomb squad saw open the other box. Inside is a room key for the Hotel Monteleone. Cops, Feds and SWAT raid the room and find it empty, save a couple of Polaroids
of a gagged and bound Molly. The Feds look at the security footage and see Miles holding up a sheet of paper which reads "WE ARE STILL HERE", and talking with a man named Willie Dumaine. Danny goes to speak to Willie. Willie shows him to an old elevator they took to the roof. As they ascend, a small charge fixed to the motor goes off, stopping the elevator. Danny tries to get the service phone, but finds a laptop there instead. He opens it and sees a video message with Molly and Miles, telling them they have 60 seconds to get off the elevator before it falls. Danny climbs through a service hatch and pulls Willie through. He tells Willie to take his hand as he climbs the shaft wall. However, the bomb on top explodes, sending the elevator and Willie plummeting. The crash pops loose a gas line.
Miles calls and tells him the clue to the next round. Danny follows the series of clues to a bus at Claiborne and Toulouse. He finds Molly on board, wearing a bomb underneath her jacket. Sitting nearby is Miles. He pulls out the wire Danny is wearing, but the Feds hear his voice and realize he is on the bus. Aiken orders snipers to take position on the overpass, accepting Molly's death as an acceptable loss for stopping Miles. Miles shows Danny that the bomb on Molly's chest is connected to a dead man's switch
and handcuffs Danny to a bar. He gives him an envelope with a phone number as the clue to the next round. As they approach the overpass, Danny spots the snipers and pulls Miles and Molly down, just as they open fire. The bus grinds to a halt. Miles ushers Molly out and blends with the crowd. When Danny is freed, he tells the Feds about bomb. Hank shows up, and tells Danny he has located Miles's henchman, Anthony Deluso.
Santiago approaches and offers his help. Danny calls the number on the envelope. Miles tells him that there are five numbers inside the envelope, four for cell phones wired to bombs in different city locations, one to disarm all four, which are timed to go off in 60 seconds. Danny and Santiago start inputting the numbers as text messages. However, they run out of time so Danny dials one randomly. Miles answers and tells him that his call disabled Streetcar 907's brakes. Danny and Santiago drive off. Danny swerves in front of the streetcar, climbs on top, and tries to take out the power from the roof, but to no avail. He gets back in the car and drives towards a nearby power transformer. He and Santiago jump out as the car slams into the transformer, shutting off electricity for the whole neighborhood. Danny and Santiago then run along the streetcar, clearing people out of the way until it can slow to a halt.
In a welding factory, Hank finds Deluso next to an anti-personnel mine planted by Miles. The mine explodes, killing Hank and Deluso. Danny gets word of this from Aiken. Aiken tells him that he has been obsessed with catching Miles since a Stinger missile which he stole, and Aiken failed to recover, was used to shoot down a passenger plane. Aiken admits he had forgotten that his debt of honor is not about Miles, but about the people he has hurt and those he is going to hurt. Aiken volunteers to help find Molly. Miles calls and says that Molly's bomb can now only be disarmed by Danny's fingerprint. He tells Danny to pay a visit to Erica. Danny, Santiago, and Aiken get into a car and start for the cemetery.
On the way Chuck Jansen, another detective, calls Danny to tell him that all five numbers in the envelope were rigged to the streetcar. Moreover, Miles had cameras monitoring the elevator shaft and set off the bomb five seconds early. Danny realizes that Willie's death was orchestrated by Miles and not just a chance casualty. Santiago does a check on Willie and finds he had a second job as a Homeland Security
guard. They think back to when the gas line came loose in the hotel. They evacuated three city blocks. One of those buildings was the Department of Engraving and Printing – the Mint. Recalling next the streetcar, they realize Miles was leading them to take out the power, and in such cases Homeland Security comes in to move the unprotected cash. Miles's grudge against Danny was only a cover for him to use Danny as a pawn in his scheme to steal this money.
Aiken tells Santiago to lock down the Mint, while he and Danny go after Molly. As they drive, Danny realizes Miles wanted him to use the firetruck so that he could later steal it, since only emergency vehicles are allowed through. He turns the car around, explaining to Aiken that Round 12 must be a wild-goose chase, since Miles needs Molly, a nurse, to help him escape.
Meanwhile, Miles, dressed as a security guard, uses Willie's card and a false name to gain entrance to the Mint. There he kills all the guards and dumps 100 million dollars in cash into the sewer. He emerges near the Hotel Monteleone, where the firetruck is parked. He uses the hose to siphon out the water and cash. He then uses Molly's ID card to get to a Medevac chopper on a hospital roof, transporting the money inside a bodybag. He tells Molly to pilot the chopper.
Danny and Aiken race to the hospital roof as Molly takes off. Miles shoots at them, wounding Aiken. Molly hits him with a fire extinguisher, giving Danny the opportunity to reach the chopper and leap on. He and Miles fight inside, while Molly flies. Danny disarms and defeats Miles, but he activates the touchphone-bomb and throws the switch away, leaving 30 seconds until it blows. Danny and Molly jump out into a terrace pool. Miles is left in the exploding helicopter.
Danny and Molly trudge downstairs, while Danny starts to tell Molly about the house.
Prior to Aidan Gillen
being cast, Al Pacino
, Joaquin Phoenix
, Kevin Bacon
, and Sean Bean
were all considered for the role of Miles Jackson.
, who had previously worked with director Renny Harlin on Deep Blue Sea
and Exorcist: The Beginning
. He recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony
at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros.
Studios.
reported that 28% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 61. At Metacritic
, which assigns a normalized
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average
score of 37, based on 11 reviews.
, Blu-ray Disc
, and UMD
with an unrated "Extreme Cut" of the film on June 30, 2009. In the first week, 12 Rounds opened at #1 at the DVD sales chart, selling 208,936 DVD units translating to revenue of $3.1m. As of July 2011, 581,834 DVD units have been sold, bringing in $8,884,292 in revenue. This does not include Blu-ray Disc sales/DVD rentals.
The DVD is a one-disc set that includes:
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
directed by Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin
Renny Harlin is a Finnish-American film director and producer. He is best known for Die Hard 2 , Cliffhanger , The Long Kiss Goodnight and Deep Blue Sea...
and produced by WWE Studios. The cast is led by professional wrestler
Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
John Cena
John Cena
John Felix Anthony Cena is an American professional wrestler, actor, rapper, and television personality. He is currently signed to WWE as a member of its WWE Raw brand....
, alongside Steve Harris
Steve Harris (actor)
Steve Harris is an American actor who has appeared in a number of films including; Quarantine, Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Bringing Down The House, The Rock, The Mod Squad, and Minority Report. He is most famous for his role as Eugene Young on the legal drama The Practice...
, Gonzalo Menendez, Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...
, Brian J. White
Brian J. White
Brian Joseph White is an American actor, dancer, football player, lacrosse player, stock broker and youth activist.-Personal life:...
, Ashley Scott
Ashley Scott
Ashley McCall Scott is an American actress. She is known for her work on television and in film including her roles in the television series Birds of Prey, Dark Angel and Jericho.-Acting career:...
, and Taylor Cole
Taylor Cole
Taylor Quinn Cole is an American actress and former fashion model.-Early life and modeling:Cole was born in Arlington, Texas. Cole attended Mirabeau B. Lamar High School where she traveled with the Junior Olympics volleyball squad. It was also in high school she got her start as a model. Cole...
. The film was released on March 27, 2009 in theaters.
Plot
In a sting operationSting operation
In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person committing a crime. A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather...
to capture notorious arms dealer Miles Jackson, the FBI assigns a terrorist named Samuel to play the role of buyer in exchange for his brother Joshua's freedom. Unbeknownst to them, Miles has cut his own deal with Samuel. The Feds see Miles call Sam on his cell phone, but cannot tap the line as Miles always uses encrypted phones. Miles arrives at the meeting place. Sam shoots Miles and has his men drag him to a van. Sam gets in the back with Miles, who was wearing Kevlar, and they drive off. The director of the sting operation, George Aiken, finds out that Joshua has been sprung from the safehouse holding him. Sam pays Miles, but he expresses disgust at Sam's lack of loyalty to anyone but his brother and kills him. Miles' girlfriend, Erica Kessen, waits for him with a getaway car.
Officer Danny Fisher and his partner, Officer Hank Carver, are dispatched to help the FBI. On their way, they look at Miles' record and see a surveillance video of him dancing with Erica. At a traffic light, Danny spots Erica. They pull her over and Danny tells her to pop the trunk. She complies, and Miles comes out shooting, wounding Hank. Erica drives off and Danny pursues on foot. He take a shortcut through narrow alleys and a house, losing his gun on the way. He pushes a parked boat into Erica's path and she crashes into it. Picking up Miles' gun, he orders them to freeze. They both run, Erica into the path of an oncoming SUV. She is killed instantly. As backup arrives and Miles is taken away, he swears vengeance on Danny.
One year later, Danny gets a phone call from Miles, who has escaped from prison. He says that he is close. Danny grabs his badge and gun and runs outside the house looking for Miles. Danny's car and house explode, throwing Danny to the ground. After he recovers, Miles says he is launching a game of revenge called "12 Rounds". The house, the car, and Phil (the plumber who came to fix a broken pipe) were "Round 1". Danny runs towards the ferry station, where his girlfriend Molly is.
Molly boards the ferry. Miles' henchman, Anthony Deluso, borrows her cell phone under a false pretext, preventing Danny from getting through. Danny reaches the station too late to stop the ferry. He commandeers a car and speeds towards the other side. On his way, he calls Hank, tells him what has happened, and asks him to call the Department of Transportation and have the ferry stopped at the station.
Danny and Hank arrive at the station, but there is no sign of Molly. He tries her cell phone and Miles answers. He has Molly tied up in the back of his car. This was "Round 2". Miles promises that if Danny does all that he says and lives through all 12 rounds, he will let Molly go.
For "Round 3", Miles will call a cell phone in 15 minutes. Danny and Hank must follow a series of clues to locate the cell phone. When Danny answers it, Miles says a fire has broken out in the New Orleans Savings and Loan; the fire alarm segues into Round 4. Danny has to get there and extract two security deposit boxes within 20 minutes. Hank has a lead on the man who helped kidnap Molly, and volunteers to look into that while Danny continues with the "game".
FBI Agents George Aiken and Ray Santiago approach Danny and ask about Miles Jackson. Danny is livid that the Feds did not tell him Miles broke out of prison, but agrees to work with them to get Molly back. The Feds tell Danny that Miles used a prison riot as cover to escape, and that this revenge game is a good opportunity to recapture him. At the scene of the fire, Danny runs in with the firefighters through the smoke-covered corridors, and they find the security boxes. Both have timers. Miles calls and says Round 5 has started.
One of the boxes is a bomb, while the other contains a clue to the next round. Danny has to get to the Nicholls Street Wharf. The bomb is set to go off in 7 minutes, and Miles advises him to use a firetruck. With a long way downstairs, Danny goes out the window, riding down a long spool of cable. He hijacks a firetruck and races through the streets. With less than 20 seconds to go, he reaches the wharf. A bell goes off from inside one of the boxes. Danny throws it into the water, where it explodes.
Danny has the bomb squad saw open the other box. Inside is a room key for the Hotel Monteleone. Cops, Feds and SWAT raid the room and find it empty, save a couple of Polaroids
Instant film
Instant film is a type of photographic film first introduced by Polaroid that is designed to be used in an instant camera...
of a gagged and bound Molly. The Feds look at the security footage and see Miles holding up a sheet of paper which reads "WE ARE STILL HERE", and talking with a man named Willie Dumaine. Danny goes to speak to Willie. Willie shows him to an old elevator they took to the roof. As they ascend, a small charge fixed to the motor goes off, stopping the elevator. Danny tries to get the service phone, but finds a laptop there instead. He opens it and sees a video message with Molly and Miles, telling them they have 60 seconds to get off the elevator before it falls. Danny climbs through a service hatch and pulls Willie through. He tells Willie to take his hand as he climbs the shaft wall. However, the bomb on top explodes, sending the elevator and Willie plummeting. The crash pops loose a gas line.
Miles calls and tells him the clue to the next round. Danny follows the series of clues to a bus at Claiborne and Toulouse. He finds Molly on board, wearing a bomb underneath her jacket. Sitting nearby is Miles. He pulls out the wire Danny is wearing, but the Feds hear his voice and realize he is on the bus. Aiken orders snipers to take position on the overpass, accepting Molly's death as an acceptable loss for stopping Miles. Miles shows Danny that the bomb on Molly's chest is connected to a dead man's switch
Dead man's switch
A dead man's switch is a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death or loss of consciousness....
and handcuffs Danny to a bar. He gives him an envelope with a phone number as the clue to the next round. As they approach the overpass, Danny spots the snipers and pulls Miles and Molly down, just as they open fire. The bus grinds to a halt. Miles ushers Molly out and blends with the crowd. When Danny is freed, he tells the Feds about bomb. Hank shows up, and tells Danny he has located Miles's henchman, Anthony Deluso.
Santiago approaches and offers his help. Danny calls the number on the envelope. Miles tells him that there are five numbers inside the envelope, four for cell phones wired to bombs in different city locations, one to disarm all four, which are timed to go off in 60 seconds. Danny and Santiago start inputting the numbers as text messages. However, they run out of time so Danny dials one randomly. Miles answers and tells him that his call disabled Streetcar 907's brakes. Danny and Santiago drive off. Danny swerves in front of the streetcar, climbs on top, and tries to take out the power from the roof, but to no avail. He gets back in the car and drives towards a nearby power transformer. He and Santiago jump out as the car slams into the transformer, shutting off electricity for the whole neighborhood. Danny and Santiago then run along the streetcar, clearing people out of the way until it can slow to a halt.
In a welding factory, Hank finds Deluso next to an anti-personnel mine planted by Miles. The mine explodes, killing Hank and Deluso. Danny gets word of this from Aiken. Aiken tells him that he has been obsessed with catching Miles since a Stinger missile which he stole, and Aiken failed to recover, was used to shoot down a passenger plane. Aiken admits he had forgotten that his debt of honor is not about Miles, but about the people he has hurt and those he is going to hurt. Aiken volunteers to help find Molly. Miles calls and says that Molly's bomb can now only be disarmed by Danny's fingerprint. He tells Danny to pay a visit to Erica. Danny, Santiago, and Aiken get into a car and start for the cemetery.
On the way Chuck Jansen, another detective, calls Danny to tell him that all five numbers in the envelope were rigged to the streetcar. Moreover, Miles had cameras monitoring the elevator shaft and set off the bomb five seconds early. Danny realizes that Willie's death was orchestrated by Miles and not just a chance casualty. Santiago does a check on Willie and finds he had a second job as a Homeland Security
United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
guard. They think back to when the gas line came loose in the hotel. They evacuated three city blocks. One of those buildings was the Department of Engraving and Printing – the Mint. Recalling next the streetcar, they realize Miles was leading them to take out the power, and in such cases Homeland Security comes in to move the unprotected cash. Miles's grudge against Danny was only a cover for him to use Danny as a pawn in his scheme to steal this money.
Aiken tells Santiago to lock down the Mint, while he and Danny go after Molly. As they drive, Danny realizes Miles wanted him to use the firetruck so that he could later steal it, since only emergency vehicles are allowed through. He turns the car around, explaining to Aiken that Round 12 must be a wild-goose chase, since Miles needs Molly, a nurse, to help him escape.
Meanwhile, Miles, dressed as a security guard, uses Willie's card and a false name to gain entrance to the Mint. There he kills all the guards and dumps 100 million dollars in cash into the sewer. He emerges near the Hotel Monteleone, where the firetruck is parked. He uses the hose to siphon out the water and cash. He then uses Molly's ID card to get to a Medevac chopper on a hospital roof, transporting the money inside a bodybag. He tells Molly to pilot the chopper.
Danny and Aiken race to the hospital roof as Molly takes off. Miles shoots at them, wounding Aiken. Molly hits him with a fire extinguisher, giving Danny the opportunity to reach the chopper and leap on. He and Miles fight inside, while Molly flies. Danny disarms and defeats Miles, but he activates the touchphone-bomb and throws the switch away, leaving 30 seconds until it blows. Danny and Molly jump out into a terrace pool. Miles is left in the exploding helicopter.
Danny and Molly trudge downstairs, while Danny starts to tell Molly about the house.
Cast
- John CenaJohn CenaJohn Felix Anthony Cena is an American professional wrestler, actor, rapper, and television personality. He is currently signed to WWE as a member of its WWE Raw brand....
as Detective Danny Fisher - Ashley ScottAshley ScottAshley McCall Scott is an American actress. She is known for her work on television and in film including her roles in the television series Birds of Prey, Dark Angel and Jericho.-Acting career:...
as Molly Porter - Aidan GillenAidan GillenAidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...
as Miles Jackson - Brian J. WhiteBrian J. WhiteBrian Joseph White is an American actor, dancer, football player, lacrosse player, stock broker and youth activist.-Personal life:...
as Det. Hank Carver - Taylor ColeTaylor ColeTaylor Quinn Cole is an American actress and former fashion model.-Early life and modeling:Cole was born in Arlington, Texas. Cole attended Mirabeau B. Lamar High School where she traveled with the Junior Olympics volleyball squad. It was also in high school she got her start as a model. Cole...
as Erica Kessen - Vincent Flood as Det. Chuck Jansen
- Steve HarrisSteve Harris (actor)Steve Harris is an American actor who has appeared in a number of films including; Quarantine, Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Bringing Down The House, The Rock, The Mod Squad, and Minority Report. He is most famous for his role as Eugene Young on the legal drama The Practice...
as Special Agent George Aiken - Gonzalo Menendez as Special Agent Ray Santiago
Prior to Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...
being cast, Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...
, Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix , formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is an American film actor. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and his family returned to the continental United States four years later...
, Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
, and Sean Bean
Sean Bean
Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean is best known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe...
were all considered for the role of Miles Jackson.
Music
The score of 12 Rounds was composed by Trevor RabinTrevor Rabin
Trevor Charles Rabin is a South African born musician, best known as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British progressive rock band Yes from 1983–1994, and since then, as a film composer.- Early years :...
, who had previously worked with director Renny Harlin on Deep Blue Sea
Deep Blue Sea
Deep Blue Sea is a 1999 science fiction horror film that stars Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J, and Samuel L Jackson. The film was directed by Renny Harlin and was released in the United States on July 28, 1999.- Plot :...
and Exorcist: The Beginning
Exorcist: The Beginning
Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 prequel to the 1973 film The Exorcist. This is the second version of the third Exorcist sequel. It was adapted by William Wisher Jr., Caleb Carr and Alexi Hawley, and directed by Renny Harlin...
. He recorded his score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony
Hollywood Studio Symphony
The Hollywood Studio Symphony is the credited name of the symphony orchestra behind many major soundtracks, including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Sucker Punch, Jurassic Park 3, Last Samurai, Pirates of the Caribbean, We Are Marshall, Spider-Man 2, Lost and The...
at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
Studios.
Box office
The filmed opened at number seven at the box office. Gaining an estimate of $1.75 million in its opening day and $5.3 million in its opening weekend and a further $2,498,325 in other countries taking its worldwide total to $17,280,326Critical response
12 Rounds has received mostly negative reviews from critics. Some critics have noted the film's similarities to the 1995 movie Die Hard with a Vengeance. The film ranking website Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
reported that 28% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 61. At Metacritic
Metacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
, which assigns a normalized
Standard score
In statistics, a standard score indicates how many standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean. It is a dimensionless quantity derived by subtracting the population mean from an individual raw score and then dividing the difference by the population standard deviation...
rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average
Weighted mean
The weighted mean is similar to an arithmetic mean , where instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others...
score of 37, based on 11 reviews.
Home media and unrated version
12 Rounds was released on DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray Disc is an optical disc storage medium designed to supersede the DVD format. The plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Blu-ray Discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the norm for feature-length video discs...
, and UMD
Universal Media Disc
The Universal Media Disc is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on their PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform...
with an unrated "Extreme Cut" of the film on June 30, 2009. In the first week, 12 Rounds opened at #1 at the DVD sales chart, selling 208,936 DVD units translating to revenue of $3.1m. As of July 2011, 581,834 DVD units have been sold, bringing in $8,884,292 in revenue. This does not include Blu-ray Disc sales/DVD rentals.
The DVD is a one-disc set that includes:
- Rated and extended “Extreme Cut” of the film
- Commentary by Director Renny Harlin, Writer Daniel Kunka and John Cena
- Two alternate endings
- “Crash Course: John Cena Stunts” featurette
- “Never-before-seen Cena gag reel” featurette
Soundtrack
- Feel You – Crumbland
- Ready to FallReady To Fall"Ready to Fall" is the first single by the punk rock band Rise Against from their fourth studio album, The Sufferer & The Witness .An acoustic version of this song was performed live on the CJZN Radio station in Victoria, British Columbia, on January 18, 2007, before a Billy Talent concert...
– Rise AgainstRise AgainstRise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. The band currently consists of Tim McIlrath , Zach Blair , Joe Principe and Brandon Barnes .Rise Against spent its first five years signed to the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, on which it... - 12 Rounds Suite – Trevor RabinTrevor RabinTrevor Charles Rabin is a South African born musician, best known as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for the British progressive rock band Yes from 1983–1994, and since then, as a film composer.- Early years :...