The protagonist is a duty-loving and family loving cop who accidentally kills a criminal's girlfriend. The criminal is put behind the bars only to break it in a few days. The criminal (antagonist) abducts the cop's wife and will free her only if the cop plays a game with him. The cop has to accomplish 12 tasks of varying difficulty level to reach to his wife. The cop fulfills the 12 rounds while his cop friend working on tracking the criminal down. FBI gets involved acting as semi-deterrent to the cop's goals. At the end of 10th round, however, the cop realizes something fishy in criminal's rounds, but ends up nabbing him in the end.
It is a simple 3-act structure screenplay. Criminal's girlfriend getting killed is TRIGGERING POINT. The criminal abducting the cop's wife is PLOT POINT 1. There is no MID POINT to the story. The cop realizing the criminal's plan is PLOT POINT 2.
Despite the fast pacing and high action, the film looks ineffective. WHY?
It lacks soul. Blame it on bad acting, no characterization and bad story development. You can't relate to or find a reason to care about the character or plot.
The 12 rounds used by the criminal could have been used so effectively in unearthing the real intention of the criminal. But they are left unanswererd. You come to know they werre merely used to distract the cops in letting the criminal achieve his objectives.
There is a very nice scene in this movie where the cop, the criminal and the cop's wife are sitting face to face in public. But the cop can't rescue his wife (for the time being).
Check out the movie details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Rounds_(film)
Check out the movie reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/12_rounds/
Check out the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cev6xGJZKRs
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