12 Rounds 3: Lockdown

I remember going to see the original 12 Rounds, starring John Cena a long long time ago. Could not tell you how this movie connects with the original, except for the fact that they are both made by WWE studios, who tends to cast a new lead with all their sequels like the Marine, that also had John Cena in the league.

I have no idea who Dean Ambrose is and after seeing his lack luster performance, I care not to know. The movie gave him a crap load of one- liners that kept lowering the already low quality of the movie every time he spits one out .

The movie had a philosophy about a good cop only needing 12 rounds in his gun to get the job done, which was delivered like crap with Ambrose in the lead.

I did enjoy the guy who played the villain. He had potential of being a memorable action movie villain but this movie is too forgettable for that to happen.

Overall it's very bland.

Detective John Shaw (Jonathan Good as Dean Ambrose's film debut) goes back to active duty at his precinct after the death of his partner, Ray Jones. Some of his employees are now looking at him as he comes back to the office. Upon returning to work after recovering from an injury, a police officer discovers and attempts to turn over incriminating evidence of illegal activities against his fellow police officers. He quickly finds himself trapped inside his own precinct, hunted and in search of the truth, as the crooked cops stop at nothing to recover the evidence.

Thriller with supercharged action and moving pacing by Stephen Reynolds. Gripping, violent action movie with the wrestler Jonatham Good desperately trying to find the means avoid his police colleagues to be murdered . Exciting screenplay that dispenses absurd excitement as well as amusement . Passable thriller full of intrigue and tense, this is a fast-paced, stylized action-suspense film, but full of clichés. The tension of this picture keeps snowballing as the clock ticks. The tale appears to unfold in real time as the many nail-biting and intense scenes will verify. Most unusual is the device of having the victim play desperado and hunted by the killers, and while attempting to save another young female police officer, as time runs out.

This mindless, briefly interesting and limitedly ingenious film is packed with thrills, suspense, tension and lots of interminable action. Enjoyable battle of wits between two main characters, Jonatan Good and Roger Cross , based on risked circumstances work out pretty well . Witty plot that dispenses excitement as well as entertainment . Casting is acceptable, Jonathan Good (the WWE ex-star who left in 2019) is so-so as a tormented and intrepid cop , WWE Superstar Dean Ambrose originally thought that he was an extra but when he was told it was a lead character, he was very excited about it and his contender is Roger Cross who steals the show and takes honors as psychopath cop who attempts to turn the tables on the victim before he can chase him. Plus, an adequate secondary cast, such as: Daniel Cudmore, Lochlyn Munro, Ty Olsson, Sarah Smyth, Rebecca Marshal, among them. Adequate musical score accompanying the action and inventively photographed , using Steadicam or hand-held camera .The motion picture was mediocrely but professionaly directed by Stephen Reynolds ((Interrogation, Vendetta, Tomb Raider Ascension (2007). Rating : 5/10, acceptable and passable thriller movie . The picture will appeal to frenetic action buffs .

This ¨12 Rounds 3: Lockdown¨ (2015) belongs to a trilogy, along with: ¨12 Rounds¨ (2009) by Renny Harlin with John Cena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott in which Cena discovers his love interest has been abducted by a ex-con tied to his past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. ¨12 Rounds 2: Reloaded¨ (2013) by Roel Reiné with Randy Orton, Brian Markinson, Sebastian Spence Tom Stevens; in which a man's kidnapped paramedic Nick's wife, forcing him on phone to play a "game of death" with 12 rounds, directing Nick to different locations .

I am not sure if this movie ever was in theaters, but it seems like the kind of thing that would be straight to DVD, or perhaps cable TV. I wouldn't say there was a complete lack of effort in making this movie, but for the most part it's predictable and not very good. But the movie does try to take itself seriously, and it's almost laughable at times. For instance, I think the actors probably had trouble keeping a straight face when saying some of their lines - the typical action movie tough guy lines from all those bad 80's movies. I did still manage to finish watching the movie; it wasn't awful and if you just want some mindless action, it's doable. I think where it falls short especially though is in terms of the plot. It appeared to me the plot was mostly just there for convenience to string together the action sequences that make up the core of the movie - not a lot of plot development or much change in setting. Some of the action was pretty satisfying, but it mostly looked staged and unrealistic, like sprays of bullets that constantly miss their target. I noticed when watching this, several of the make actors looked like they had raging hangovers, I imagine they were getting hammered in the evenings and not taking their work too seriously. I think the ratings for this movie will drop over time.

The first anomaly comes from the title, it doesn't mean a gauntlet of chores the villain has set up for protagonist anymore. Instead it displays the rounds our hero has, but considering he can loot other weapon and decides not to for integrity of the title feels rather limiting. Fortunately, Jonathan Good (Dean Ambrose) channels his inner John McClaine surprisingly well and Roger Cross as the antagonist has the aura of TV show bad guy.

This is what you'd expect from action flick, the usual dirty cop and the rouge hero trapped in an unfortunate situation. It borrows heavily from Die Hard and perhaps because it's an already proved formula, Lockdown is not entirely bad. Dead Ambrose is not the usual protagonist, he looks genuinely troubled which serendipitously may help his rogue cop character.

There's a few of illogical events are put there for the sake of pushing the plot, and adds that to the occasional odd alternate way of dispatching enemies, it can be awkward. A couple of bad CG makes the movie slightly unintentionally funny at times.

However, it's still a passable action shoot'em up. The change from complex mind games to simple gunslinger and melee action is good decision since the franchise doesn't have the refined production to pull off such cerebral setting.

Lockdown is definitely flawed, yet it brings enough action antics to be a popcorn flick or lazy afternoon watch.

There are so many sins in this movie. I will not comment on the action scene because it's good enough. Not the best, but pretty good. The main problem is the scenario/script of the movie is sucks so much.

1) why the main character not send the proof to the internet at the first place? This is 2015, everybody has internet. At least copy it to your desktop so you have a backup.

2) if I were him, I'm at least show the evidence to my friends or at least I'm gonna scream and gathered everyone on my computer to see the evidence together.

3) when the main character manage to get to the roof and get his gun to the main villain, why he not at least shoot his leg or arms??? its stupid!

4) why the main character must use only one gun??? he killed the villain and their guns is falling everywhere... WHY HE DIDN'T TAKE THEIR GUNS??? I'm really confuse...

5) why the main villain hesitate so much to killing him??? he destroyed the flash drive so why he need him alive??? and when he chasing him, he shoot and tell everybody to kill him. But when he got the chance to kill him, he didn't! why??

6) at the end, the main character recorded the voice of the main villain to make a proof. BUT THAT IS NOT A PROOF! He didn't even mention about "drugs" or anything. He just said about "THIS IS MY SHOW" and some stupid words.

I can give more question. but I think you get my point. This movie is sucks. I'm not talking about the actor or the action. I'm talking about the script.