Zwölf Runden (2009)
6KZwölf Runden: Directed by Renny Harlin. With John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris. Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by an ex-con tied to Fisher’s past, and he’ll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release.
“If you can just avoid asking u0026quot;how?u0026quot; you might enjoy this film as an exciting collection of action scenes. The villain does bad things, and the hero John Cena manages to save the day (as expected). Reality and logic are overlooked when they are in conflict with a good action scene. The fact that the action in this film could never, never ever happen is beside the point.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eVery little time is spent on character development, since all you need to know is who the villain is. You find this out within a minute or two, and you can then switch off your brain for the rest of the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film is immune to criticism. John Cena does not have any big acting scenes, and might even be capable of passable acting. However, heu0026#39;s not called upon to do much acting. His execution of the stunts and action scenes is amazing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHow can anyone complain about an illogical plot when the film was produced by the WWE and stars a professional wrestler? The movie was filmed entirely in New Orleans,and makes terrific use of dozens of locations. I probably gave it an extra point or two for this. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe scene with the u0026quot;runaway streetcaru0026quot; has got to be an in-joke, because the u0026quot;realu0026quot; Canal Street streetcar cannot travel more than a half-block at a time at a very, very slow pace. It is frequently blocked by vehicles stopped across its tracks. The havoc (if not revenge) wreaked on vehicular traffic by this runaway streetcar has got to bring delight to any local streetcar rider.”
