12 to Midnight

He may resemble Charles Bronson (he's a Hungarian Bronson impersonator), but he doesn't have his style or swagger. In fact, he and this movie have nothing on Bronson and his body of work. Bronson wasn't the greatest actor, but he doesn't deserve this marring his memory.

This movie is filled with cliches, has lethargic pacing that destroys any possibility of tension, an absolutely laughable "evil creature" and dialogue that better actors wouldn't be able to save. Even Svengoolie wouldn't want this one. Don't waste your time unless you're hard up for something to watch.

(I'm giving it two stars instead of one as a way to recognize all the time and effort those involved put into making this schlock.)

Pfft. Who needs CGI. You can just get a Charles Bronson lookalike to play a vigilante cop in a movie that could past muster as a Cannon Films back in the 1980s.

It starts with off duty cop Toth (Robert Bronzi) taking down two robbers who attempt to rob a convenience store. He than saves a man from throwing himself off a bridge.

Toth is a drunk, his wife was brutally killed a few weeks earlier.

Some months later his bosses bring him back. Another woman was savagely killed, it looks like an animal attack but someone who walks on two feet.

This is a B movie with a running joke that Toth looks familiar. The special effects are naff but it is oddly endearing. It also mines information about Bronson's life.

He may LOOK like a wax figure of Bronson, but he can't act as well as Bronson's left foot - and I do not think Bronson was a fantastic actor.

This film is largely drama.. reminded me of Schwarzeneggers first films, where he didn't speak English so he was phonetically told what to say.. and that comes across in the wooden dialog.

Other (poorly acted) characters continually rattle off a paragraph of dialog only to have Toth retort with a single word, on rare occasions 2 words. It's bad, really bad. All wooden, stilted and just horribly acted.

While this is supposed to be a "detective story" it's mostly drama... drama with actors that can't act. Even the bit part players struggle with believable dialog.

It's just bad all around and relying on the look-a-like to bring in viewers. Seriously, just pass on this.

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