Gavin Jasper wouldn’t mind a sequel where John Shaw gets a new partner who is a beautiful Samoan man with long, luxurious hair. Ambrose isn’t a lost cause as an action hero, but he certainly needs a better playground and people to actually play off of. It didn’t so much as drop the ball as it walked with it when it should have started running. It’s competent enough, but feels like it could’ve been way better. If you expected a “so bad it’s good” cheesefest, you probably won’t find it. Stephen Reynolds’ little action movie is a decent enough way to spend 90 minutes. Though I will say that an explosion happens at one point and rather than be a, “Hell yeah!” moment, you’ll find yourself giggling at the terrible special effect and rewinding to watch it again. It has its moments (most notably Shaw’s creative use of a taser that leads to something completely awesome), but it could gain from being more over-the-top. The action lacks pizzazz for the most part. Maybe your suspension of disbelief is stronger than mine, but I was just rolling my eyes at the climax, which is a huge shame, since I genuinely like the idea of the ending, which goes against expectations. I’m talking about people acting completely unnaturally for the sake of wrapping things up to such an extent that it takes me out of the movie. I’m not talking about, “Our hero throws a chainsaw at the bad guys so hard that explosions happen,” unrealistic. I’m not going to spoil it for you, but the final two minutes are thoroughly ridiculous and not in a good action movie way. There are flaws, such as when you ask yourself, “Why doesn’t he just steal that guy’s gun so he’ll have more ammo?” but the movie does a fairly good job explaining why Shaw has limited options, making his situation more and more claustrophobic. Most stuff makes sense in its own way that you are able to invest into it. For a WWE Studios movie this is major as most of these movies’ screenplays have more holes in them than Swiss cheese. The movie’s credit goes to its logic and pacing. Seriously, few people remember ever seeing Dead Man on Campus, but when you see that guy show up in movies, he’s immediately identified as “Cliff from Dead Man on Campus.” You know you had that reaction when you saw Freddy vs. You would remember him as Cliff from Dead Man on Campus. The stakes don’t just rely on Shaw’s side, but on the side of Burke, possibly even moreso.īurke’s crew includes Gideon, played by Daniel Cudmore (AKA Colossus from the X-Men movies) and Darrow as played by Lochlyn Munro. He’s expressive, aggressive, sinisterly charming, and hammers it home how screwed he and his cohorts are if they don’t put an end to Shaw. Not to mention, he never seems all too psychologically affected from his rookie partner’s death despite everyone claiming he is.Ĭross as Burke carries the movie. Then there’s a big flaw in him getting a pretty major injury about halfway in and almost completely ignoring it for the rest of the movie. His lines are few and far between, leaving us with plenty of footage of Ambrose silently trying to make it look like he’s thinking or walking around, hunched over, with his gun out. If you’ve seen the trailer for the movie, you’ve heard a huge chunk of his lines. But he will kill when it’s his only option.Īmbrose is set up to fail because despite being a charismatic talker in the world of wrestling, he has nobody to work with here. He doesn’t want to coldly kill every bad guy like the badass action hero he is. He’s a do-gooder, but not cartoonishly so, and that paints his purpose. John Shaw is not simply a repackaged John McClane. The threat is different and our hero is very different. Even though the Die Hardcomparison is there, it’s original enough that it kind of works on its own. It’s frustrating because 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown is good and almost great. This has led to a lot of jokes about how it’s “reverse Die Hard.” The first movie was basically Die Hard with a Vengeancewhile this is basically the first Die Hard. It is the first film in the series not to be released by 20th Century Fox, and was released in select theaters across the United States and on demand on September 11, 2015.This movie has absolutely zero to do with the other 12 Rounds films other than the title. Champion grappler Dean Ambrose heads the cast of this gritty thriller about an honest cop who finds himself hunted by his fellow officers after he discovers. It is the sequel to the 2013 film 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded, the third and final installment in the 12 Rounds trilogy, and the second of six films (titled the "Action Six-Pack" series) to be co-produced by WWE Studios and Lionsgate, who distribute the film. 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (also known as 12 Rounds 3 or 12 Rounds: Lockdown) is a 2015 American action film directed by Stephen Reynolds and starring Dean Ambrose in his film debut.
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