| | | Includes 2 Alternate Endings and More Action!
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Unrated, English, Spanish, Subtitled
When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher (John Cena) stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with 12 rounds of near-impossible puzzles and tasks that he must somehow complete to save the life of the woman he loves.
"Escapist fun that provides an effective showcase for the blue-collar charisma and bulky good looks of [Cena]..." Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"...with its echoes of "Speed," "Lethal Weapon" and "Die Hard With A Vengeance," this is a welcome throwback for audiences raised on '90s action flicks..." Genevieve Harrison, Empire
Editor's Note
WWE heavyweight John Cena (THE MARINE) muscles his way back onto the screen with this action film. Renny Harlin, best known for his work on CLIFFHANGER and DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER), directs.
| Features | 2 Alternate Endings | | Audio Commentaries With Director, Writer & John Cena | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Featurette: Crash Course - John Cena Stunts | | Includes Both Original Theatrical & Unrated Extended Versions Of The Film! | | Interactive Menus | | Never Before "Cena" Gag Reel | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Trailers |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 6/30/2009 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2009 | | Catalog ID: 2260011 | | UPC: 00024543600114 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.39:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Austin Chronicle 7 of 10
I defy you to hate John Cena. Really. You can try all you want, but I don't think you'll make it. You can laugh at his bulging trapezius muscles, which look like they were designed in a lab by scientists from the future; you can mock his misguided elementary school attempts at acting, which make Jean-Claude Van Damme look like Richard Burton; and you can scorn his World Wrestling Entertainment pedigree. But you just can't hate the man. Even when he's leveling an already reeling post-Katrina New Orleans like a human bulldozer, he positively oozes homegrown Midwestern decency -- like Ron Howard, if Ron Howard could crush a brick with his bare hand. After all, it's not like Cena's Detective Danny Fisher wants to destroy New Orleans; he has to. His girlfriend has been kidnapped by a criminal mastermind named Miles Jackson (Gillen), and the only way to get her back is to follow the rules of Jackson's malevolent game of cat and mouse: a game that involves 12 "rounds" of near-impossible, clock-racing feats of physical skill, deductive reasoning, and moral gymnastics. Fail to make it to a destination on time, for example, and a bomb goes off; dial the wrong phone number, and the brakes go out on a downtown trolley racing toward a crowd of children. That sort of thing...Where Cena approaches 12 Rounds like a man with a purpose, Gillen knows there is nothing one should take less seriously than a movie directed by Harlin (Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight), who long ago realized that as long as you keep the action moving at a blistering pace, your story doesn't need to make any sense, your star doesn't have to resemble anything human, and your movie doesn't have to be any good. - Josh Rosenblatt
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