{"id":7471,"date":"2013-06-27T09:48:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T08:51:36","slug":"12-rounds-2-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7471","title":{"rendered":"12 Rounds 2: Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/12rounds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7472\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=7472\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/12rounds.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"214,317\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"12rounds\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/12rounds.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7472\" alt=\"12rounds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/12rounds-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/12rounds-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/12rounds.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>So last night I watched straight-to-DVD action thriller <strong>12 Rounds 2 Reloaded<\/strong>, the sequel to the film (<strong>12 Rounds<\/strong>) of the gameshow (<strong>The Phone<\/strong>) of the film (<strong>Die Hard 3<\/strong>), this time starring WWE wrestler Randy Keith Orton as a paramedic caught up in a psycho&#8217;s twisted game in order to save his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The first one (starring WWE star and rap artiste John Cena) was a promising idea and certainly quite action packed but whilst the central conceit is quite entertaining about halfway through the ideas become rather less compelling.<\/p>\n<p>Structurally the sequel is very similar to the original, but I think it&#8217;s markedly improved as a film, and suspect the writers have a much better grasp of reality game \u00a0formatting to underpin everything and as such doesn&#8217;t feel like it runs out of entertaining ideas about halfway through. Again the central protagonist must take on 12 rounds of tasks set to them on the phone by a mysterious all-seeing bad guy once again building to a climax with devastating consequences. There are car chases and fighting and explosions and betrayal and sugar, and it hangs together much better than you&#8217;d expect if you a) saw the first one and b) were watching a straight to DVD release.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not <em>Die Hard<\/em>, but I think you&#8217;d be entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last night I watched straight-to-DVD action thriller 12 Rounds 2 Reloaded, the sequel to the film (12 Rounds) of the gameshow (The Phone) of the film (Die Hard 3), this time starring WWE wrestler Randy Keith Orton as a paramedic caught up in a psycho&#8217;s twisted game in order to save his girlfriend. The\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7471\">Read More: 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1Wv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}