"He's dirty and I got the evidence." After returning to the force after a gunshot wound, officer Shaw (Ambrose) thinks he's in for a easy day back. When he discovers his former partner is involved in illegal activity he wants to do something about it. After the building is locked down It is up to him to stop them and keep the evidence safe. There really isn't too much to say about this one. The first two movies in this series were actually not too bad. A cop forced to go through a series of tests in order to save the ones he loves. The only thing this had in common with the others is the title and a wrestler is the main star. This is pretty much a generic action movie that did everything it could to be Assault on Precinct 16 but fell way short. Overall, a pretty cliché action movie that really is worth watching only if you are a huge fan of Dean Ambrose. This one strayed too far from what made the others interesting to watch. I give this a C.
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ginocox-206-33696816 December 2015"12 Rounds 3: Lockdown" deserved a much better script. As a mindless action flick, it's not a bad way to spend ninety minutes. Production values are adequate and there are some decent action sequences. The unarmed combat scenes are much better than the gunfights. The somewhat gratuitous car scenes seem more like product placements than part of the script.
The script makes no sense at all. Why would a police department even have a lockdown mode that prevents fire doors from opening from the inside? Why would the villains think they could hunt down and murder an officer when every corner of the building is monitored by security cameras? The villains operate as if there is no forensic evidence of anything, even the caliber of weapons.
The script tries to give Shaw (Ambrose) a backstory and inner conflict with an incident that resulted in a partner's death and required an extended leave for psychiatric care. Several characters refer to the incident; however, there is never any resolution. We expect to find out that either it wasn't really his fault due to circumstances he didn't understand, as in "Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol" or to learn that some character fault or error in judgment did result in the death and that he can overcome a similar dilemma only if he has learned from the experience. But it is never developed and his experience doesn't seem to infuse his actions. Shaw also has history with the villain, but neither seems to use any unique understanding of the other to any advantage.
"12 Rounds" and "12 Rounds 2: Reloaded" have been compared to "Die Hard with a Vengeance," while "12 Rounds 3: Lockdown" has been compared to the original "Die Hard." However, where the first two 12 Rounds films had clever scripts that compared favorably with the second Die Hard, the third pales compared to the original "Die Hard."
Long segments without dialogue require actors of the caliber of Bruce Willis ("Die Hard"), Robert Redford ("All is Lost") and Tom Hanks ("Castaway"). Dean Ambrose can be effective when given the material. An early scene at a stoplight is effective without dialogue. Unfortunately, he's not given much to work with.
Shaw frequently ejects his magazine to count the number of bullets remaining, but never adds in one for the bullet in the chamber. The villains are able to get into the armory and equip themselves with assault rifles and bulletproof vests, but Shaw can't manage to pick up one of the weapons dropped during a fight.
There is no character development and no moral. Shaw has inner demons, but seems to ignore them. He is wounded, but ignores the wounds. He has an opportunity to team up with another cop, but doesn't.
The script is a largely predictable mishmash of familiar tropes. The level of gunplay is over the top. There is no way the villains could hope to argue that their use of force was justified by the circumstances or that the top brass would allow them to continue shooting up the department with wild abandon. And yet, the tone is very serious and down to earth, unlike such films as "Shoot 'Em Up" or "Smokin' Aces," which have a comic book sense of reality.
While the film never really engages the viewer, neither does it bore. While the plot seems ridiculous and implausible, if one can disengage ones mental faculties, it offers some entertaining action sequences. -
kobold-2311 September 2015Think about every possible cliché: Corrupt cops, the good guy that comes back to work, the good guy that gets framed, the good guy that has to clear up his name, the bad guys who miss the good guy even if he's way too close.
This time the movie even tries to surprise you with a twist, which was also predictable.
Overall, it was OK. It's short and it doesn't waste time with characters that don't belong to the movie. It's basically one hero against a group of bad guys. One of them is Colossus from X-Men movies.
The camera work is annoying during the shootouts. The bodycount is not high, but it's quite fine on its own.
Nothing new. You can enjoy it if you don't have anything else to do. -
zecurox20 September 2015There 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. -
This movie is crap. In fact I had to sign up with IMDb to review it. Where do I start from? Oh yes the acting. The lead protagonist Shaw can't even act to save his life. His expressions are flat and the same throughout the movie. The rest of the actors apart from the main villain carried themselves like morons throughout. Shaw got shot yet he didn't like it. He didn't favor the bad hand and kept moving it the way he liked. And when Shaw killed the only female villain, the next person who shot at him had a clear view of Shaw's upper body. There was nothing protecting him. Yet this guy shot speedily at the desk allowing Shaw to escape. Why? The script told him to.
The plot of the movie was weak. Very weak. Are we to believe a precinct can be locked down just like that? Some things were just too hard to believe. Like the fact that Shaw, someone who could barely nail a good shot during practice was so good at it under pressure, killing all the bad guys with his expertise. And why did Burke keep hesitating to kill Shaw? He had all the time to do it. And I just can't believe capt Matthews was a bad cop. It seemed desperate. And the worst of all was when the guy watching the cameras stopped an upload sent from the central monitor in the server room. That is impossible. The central monitor controls every other monitor and network. A client network cannot stop it. It was so dumb.
I never want to watch something like this again. Ever. It had no redeemable feature. The sequence of actions were out of place. It was Just awful. Don't waste your time. Don't watch this. -
franklindf13 September 2015I 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.
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layans1622 September 2015I want start off by saying i never watched any of the other 12 Rounds movies. Or Lockdown ones.
but I actually enjoyed the action in this movie it was quick and exciting.
Now the storyline is meh and very predictable at times...
I mean it's alright but i'm sure if they tried harder they could've brought up something less cliché.
I thought the actors and the antagonist Burke did a pretty good job
and Ambrose was great, for a first movie he was perfect.
I wish to see him (main eventing Wrestlemania next year) in more movies.
LETS GO AMBROSE. -
Prismark1010 April 2016Wrestler Dean Ambrose is cop John Shaw who returns to duty after being shot and his partner getting killed. Shaw needed psychiatric counselling. His first day back on the job ends up being far from rosy.
Shaw finds evidence and saves it in a flash drive that the star officer in the precinct Tyler Burke leads a team of crooked cops. When Burke finds out he evacuates the police station in a bogus fire scare and puts in on lockdown so he and his unit could hunt down Shaw who only has 12 bullets in his gun and seems incapable to find any more. Then again as you watch the film you figure that when brains were handed out he was at the back of the line.
The film is inept. Die Hard on the cheap. Ambrose shows little charisma or action abilities. The plot is garbage. I could never figure why Shaw never made a copy of the drive or save it elsewhere. Also I never figured how Burke would realistically pin all the deaths on Shaw. The forensics would not match. Several times Shaw is saved because of external factors nothing to with any cunning or planning by the main star.
The previous 12 round films were passable and had some decent action. This was just bad. -
imdb-69-78720118 August 2021Yeah, sure. Field cops have network expertise. And giant text messages like UPLOAD CANCELLED do not appear in a command line window.
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FlashCallahan27 September 2015A police officer returns to duty after recovering from a gun shot wound to discover incriminating evidence of illegal activities against those closest to him.
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......
John Cena and WWE have a lot to answer for. Between the two of them, they have taken two perfectly passable B-movie action flicks, and turned them into a monster that won't give up the Die Hard ghost.
The sequels to The Marine, are nothing more than Die Hard wannabe shlockfests, and in turn, this franchise is becoming the same monster.
But what's the twist here? Why, the twelve rounds are referring to the number of bullets that Dean Ambrose has in his gun. Because a good cop doesn't need more than twelve bullets in a Die Hard situation......eat that Bruce.
And what does become clear very soon into the film, is that this movie wasn't supposed to be a sequel, the makers just saw the finished product, felt their heart sink, and tagged on the franchise name.
The plot and the narrative, are perfectly acceptable and a pretty good concept, Cop comes back to work after being traumatised, colleagues are planning a robbery, blame their killing of other cops on the returning cops mental health state, thus leaving him with having to clear his name and quip really poor, incoherent one liners.
It's not a terrible film by any means, it's just so boring and mundane, and Ambrose should make the most of this movie, because I feel he won't be getting many more movie offers soon. At least he's got his wrestling to fall back on.
So for the rest of the film we have Ambrose hiding from a villain who is really doing his best to be Michael Jai White and killing cops when Ambrose won't move into the view of the CCTV, the bloke from Scary Movie looking really old and sweaty, and obviously your token police outside shouting 'we're going in'.
It all ends with a silly twist, and it doesn't deliver anything new or surprising.
Well it did surprise me when I found out Ambrose is only 29. He looks well into his forties.
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jerandjaz27 December 2015One never knows what to expect from a WWE film, but they certainly seem to be moving in the right direction, and this effort is no exception. The casting was excellent, and the film is well-written and admirably played out by the stars, with enough action, intrigue and realism to keep you engaged. Roger Cross was very good, as usual, and Dean Ambrose was excellent and extremely likable as the protagonist. (Although I must confess I secretly hoped to see him pull out 'dirty deeds' during a hand-to-hand combat scene :) But as one would hope, the film showcases another side of Ambrose we don't usually see, which speaks to his versatility as an actor. I hope to see him again in future films!
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loveyhotu30 October 2015Watched this movie yesterday, reminded me of Bruce Willis at Nakatomi Tower. Nice storyline but honestly Mr. Producer, Mr. Levesque and Ms McMahon think about it, was there really need to include that "porn scene" at the beginning? I mean the WWE Universe consists of so many kids who look up to these superstars didn't you guys spare a second thought for that! That really disgusted me.
Dean Ambrose was good being his first movie with the shooting scenes especially the action on the rooftop and I hope he continues but he movie was a bit stagnant no real climax same shooting scenes in the staircase, elevator, cubicles.
Keep up the good work Dean you'll only get better as time goes by you'll do great in a Western or Military movie! YOU'VE GOT THE LOOK ;) -
kasra-d24 September 2015may contain spoiler....
the movie start very slow and then jump in the so called "action". whole film is about a highly trained corrupt police squad that left some evidence after a crime. they ( with automatic weapons)come after a good cop with a pistol and lost! and all happens in a modern police station that got on lock down for no reason and no one asking questions ! The bad guy had opportunity to kill the "hero" but instead start lecturing him so give him recording and chance to escape ! ... and for sure you'll have a happy ending you can guess the rest. bad acting , poor special effect and actually NO STORY , even the action scenes are boring. -
quincytheodore12 September 2015The 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. -
iancwelch12 September 2015There are some glaringly obvious plot issues with this movie. The re-instated police officer, who's partner was killed, uncovers evidence of foul play. Immediately upon doing so, the perpetrator of said foul play and corruption realizes that he has the evidence and attacks him while he is still in the police station. The antagonist shuts off cell and phone communication and disables the network. He communicates with the outside using radio, the same radio which he communicates with his fellow perpetrators. In addition, the main character either has an IQ of 50 or the writer lacks imagination. At one point the antagonist finds himself in the armory and he grabs a shield with 6 or 7 bullets left whilst being out-gunned. Even a moron, with far below the intelligence required to pass a police competency test, would have gone for some artillery. He communicates on a cell phone to a potential ally from the roof, yet never stops to say "Hey, I am throwing the flash drive down to you", something that would've removed the motivation for the whole thing. Even the basic premise, the corrupt cop explaining that he has disabled communications and put the building on lock down, makes zero damn sense in any real situation. Why would disabling cellular communication help in apprehending a cop suffering from PTSD that had gone on a killing spree. A rating of 4 is based upon the fact that the movie is still entertaining, as long as you can imagine for a second that the multiple cameras in the police station are not recording everything that is happening and that they wouldn't be reviewed after the incident... and everything else.
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subxerogravity12 September 2015I 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. -
seanrapley-9642724 November 2018A fun but average movie. Nothing stands out but it is a good time.
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mad_mike121112 September 2015I will start by saying that I enjoyed this film as I do most action films, I am not too fussy.
However I gave 12 rounds Lockdown only 5 out of 10, I think mostly due to it being a bit of a let down compared to the previous 2 in the series.
I really enjoyed 12 Rounds With John Cena and the same with Randy Orton in the 2nd one. But the 3rd film lacked everything those two had.
The script in this film was pretty awful at times, I don't think it had anything to do with the actors, they just did the best they could.
The story line seemed like a good one going into it, but soon started loosing its rhythm quickly as the movie progressed, with some holes here and there.
The action and intelligence of many parts of what actually went on was actually pretty good, it's just a shame there wasn't enough of it, I guess I was expecting more because of the previous 2.
All in all it's a decent watch for a rainy day, don't expect too much and you wont be disappointed, I still hope for a 4th one though regardless. -
saptesh7863 November 2020Another installment of 12 rounds add ' Lockdown' in the title. Story is more realistic but twists are unbelievable. Main actor Jonathan Good is looking tired and not fit for action sequences. Other hand villain is impressive and we can feel fear from such character. Thanks to brilliant acting by Roger Cross. Once time watchable. Better in story department in the view of first two parts. Another thing is mentionable by me that the movie plot is similar to Bollywood moive ' Bichhoo"(2000) Bobby Deol starrer in two ways, one is that the corrupt narcotics department and its corrupted but powerful officers and second is the main hero is captured by all police force less by deadly machineguns, grenades, mask etc. like military force. These tow similarities reminds me that movie.
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jfgibson7311 September 2015My assumption was that this direct to video sequel made by WWE films would be cheap and formulaic. It did end up being fairly weak on story, basically another variation on the Die Hard building shootout. However, it also did a couple things that surprised me. Dean Ambrose plays Shaw, a cop who was put on leave after his partner was killed. His coworkers are already unsure if they can trust him, but then he finds some evidence on some dirty drug dealing cops, and they have to take him out. They trap him in a building and tell the rest of the force he's gone rogue. The story follows Shaw as he tries to get out with the evidence while evading bad guys, who have several advantages over him. Having seen Dean Ambrose in WWE, I expected this character would be the same smart ass rebel he portrays on TV. Actually, Ambrose plays it fairly straight. Instead of tossing out lame one liners, they let him do some clever things to keep him ahead of the villains. While the story is derivative and most of the dialog is clichéd, the biggest problem with this movie is the premise that Shaw literally only has 12 rounds in his gun to overcome the numbers game. The movie actually has him check his clip periodically, with the camera filming close ups of the bullets in the chamber. Shaw narrates lines like "8 rounds,six bad guys," as if he were a character on Sesame Street teaching kids how to subtract. He has numerous opportunities to pick up other weapons of course, but cannot because it would disrupt the premise written into the movie's title. If this had been taken out of the script, the movie would have been exponentially less ridiculous. At least until the end, when the movie completely runs out of ideas and ruins the smarter moments with some infuriatingly implausible ones. I also thought that the action scenes were much less effective than the drama, which got genuinely tense a couple times. I watched the movie because I'm an Ambrose fan, and I enjoyed his performance well enough, but I don't expect him to get offers for better movies based on this. Average at best.
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Spikesgrl8111 September 2015I absolutely loved this movie. I think Dean Ambrose did an awesome job, especially for it being his first film. I really was not happy to see the rating drop throughout the day. People need to realize that Dean had never acted before this and you can't just start out great. That being said, I think he did a excellent job for his first film. I even liked this movie more that the first two. This one was even different in the way the plot was. It had a very big Die Hard vibe to it. I think we all know how great the Die Hard movies were. I really am hoping they make another movie that coincides with this one. :) Sometimes it just take a certain actor to make the fans wants more and I think Dean Ambrose is that actor.
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kirbylee70-599-52617920 March 2016It seems that World Wrestling Entertainment is determined to get into all forms of entertainment, not just sports entertainment. Not only have wrestlers had their own comic books but a number have been placed in starring film vehicles. Some were good, some okay and some terrible. Fortunately the third of the 12 ROUNDS films isn't too bad.
Wrestler Dean Ambrose stars as John Shaw, a tough as nails cop recently returned to duty after being shot on the job. Few fellow officers want to work with Shaw as the incident that led to his being wounded also resulted in the death of his partner and Shaw needing psychiatric counseling. Needless to say his first day back on the job won't be easy.
It becomes worse when evidence reaches Shaw that his ex-partner and the star officer in the station, Tyler Burke, is actually a corrupt cop who makes more from his illegal activities than he does as an officer. Burke is the head of a task force assigned to take down crooks but instead the elite team makes up his band of bandits. Drug deals and more do little more than line the pockets of Burke and his crew.
Word gets to Burke that the evidence is in the station house and he heads back to get it from the evidence lockup only to find that Shaw has it already. Staging an emergency, Burke empties the station house with the exception of his team and Shaw, cutting off all phones and cell phones as well. Armed with his handgun, a small amount of ammunition and his cunning, Shaw must battle his way through the team and find a way to get the information to the right authorities if he is to survive.
The movie borrows heavily from the DIE HARD films in set up and execution but not to the point of being a copy. It also doesn't borrow the screenwriter as this film tends to offer some truly bad dialogue that the actors on hand deal with but can't make better. It's shot well and directed well for the low budget style of film it is and in the end doesn't disappoint on most counts.
Ambrose is a rising star right now in the wrestling world but the odds of his turning that into a movie star aren't likely with this film. I'll give him credit for at least making the attempt but this feels like what it is, the first film for someone stepping into an arena he isn't familiar with yet. That being said the end results aren't that bad for a first time out. Given time, more roles and a little instruction and Ambrose has the potential many sports figures turned actors don't display.
The standout here though is Roger Cross as Burke. My first exposure to Cross was on the TV series 24 where he played Curtis Manning. Even given some terrible dialogue in spots here he makes it fit. He pulls off what could have been a more cartoon-like role and makes it somewhat believable. This is an actor worth looking for in the future.
The end result of this film is that it offers some entertainment value for action fans and a definite dose of Ambrose for wrestling fans. It's not a bad movie at all but it's not blockbuster status either. It makes for a fun rental night but only fans will want to add it to their collections. -
aussietraveler1 April 2019One to miss unless you have a curiosity to watch B grade movies with a rubbish plot and a predictable bad ending.
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Eddie_weinbauer22 September 2015This movie is suppose to be a die hard type of action movie. But in reality it's so bad , you start wonder if it's crowdfunded. The good guy,can't aim or shot worth a crap. He got 100 opportunities to shot the bad guy but he always misses or something stops him from shooting. Lest not forget that he can't speak in full sentences. When ever he has a chance of clearing his name,just speak half sentences or is so vague that everyone think his guilty. Neither of the cast can act worth a damn.And the fight sequences are just horribly choreographed.The acting is worse than on many of those erotic thrillers,that surfaced in the wake of Basic instinct I wonder how many of the regular B-movie stars turned this down,before they reached the bottom of he barrel . This script is so bad I bet dolph lundgren,Van Damme,And steven segal wouldn't even touch it with a 10ft pole And they usually own the direct to DVD marked
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vincentgauguin13 September 2015one word "Trash"
Ex Partner goes rogue and becomes a drug dealer (An African American !! yeah you guessed it right), (talk of being racist) ! screws is own Liam Neeson looking partner (A White Guy, therefore a Good Guy !! How skewed)
They made it look like Die Hard and Nakatomi Plaza and all, failed miserably,
This black guy (Roger cross) has an Army of white partners in crime, the entire police HQ in fact, including the Boss (Yeah ! you guessed it right another Black Lady) get after our cannot act for nuts! Shaw ! Who is running around with a Gun with 12 rounds, refusing to pick up any automatics that comes his way. Oh ! forgot to mention, he also uses a taser though
Name of the movie should've really been 12 Rounds and a Taser 3
Save yourself some trouble, don't waste your time ! Like i did, to bring you this heads up !!