Nitesh_Singh
The story is revolves around a drug cocktail "Twelve" which has effects like those of Meth. The story revolves around the drug business, addiction, psychological issues, violence and sex among the born-rich youth of Manhattan.My motivation to watch it was for Emma Roberts, who has now quiet the reputation of doing teen/youth drama films. It also stars 50 Cent.White Mike (Chace Crawford) is friends with Molly (Emma Roberts) who is not a rich one and is oblivious of the fact that Mike is a drug dealer. Chris (Rory Culkin) is a nerd who is desperate for attention and even hosts a party for the popular Sara Ludlow (Esti Ginzburg). She manipulates him time to time. However all the girls clearly have interest in Chris's older brother who is the bad guy with looks. He is also a sociopath with issues with their mother.Jessica (Emily Meade) is a drug addict who does everything to get the drug, even having sex with Lionel.The climax scene where Claude goes mad and tries killing his brother, is the most lively scene in the film. The tension built up throughout the plot erupts here and everyone comes to know about each others' truths.All the caste looks hot especially, Emily Meade and Zoe Kravitz. The movie is a narrated one. Watch Twelve if you like the genre of youth drama.
Bene Cumb
The screenplay is hectic and rambling, above all, in the beginning when it is difficult to follow different names and references to names and places changing fast (probably okay for those knowing New York / Manhattan well). Contrast between flashbacks, the main character's reflections, and the real street life is also too big. The best in this movie are Chase Crawford as White Mike, Rory Culkin as Chris Kenton and Kiefer Sutherland's voice (as narrator). The rest are rather ordinary, schematic... Well, the book the screenplay is based on was written by a 17-years-old guy, but the movie could have been more fluent.Twelve can be a warning movie against drugs and addictions, but it is not a masterpiece - especially if considering the name of the director, Joel Schumacher.
Sumit Bajracharya
Joel Schumacher a name behind some terribly fun stuff and too many out of the track movies. While I actually liked his badly reviewed "The Number 23", this new offering from Shumacher is a bore. The plot of the movie is something with high potential though too many movies relying on the similar theme about teen frustrations, drugs et cetera et cetera have been attempted many times before. But what lacked here is the proper narration of the story. The huge problem is it takes too much time to introduce its characters to stabilize the movie and most of these are played by too many lame actors. Also the constant background narration by Kiefer Sutherland has been a bump in the flow of the movie. While in movies like Fight Club, the background narration added thrill and were used in the esthetically, here these narration were actually bumps and slowed down pace of the movie. A creative cinematography and nice editing was also lacking. So, At the end of the movie all slow paced movie with zero intensity.
andell
Chace Crawford should never have pulled out of "Footloose"...it seems like it was his only opportunity to really play a character different from the one he plays in "Gossip Girl," or the one who, with only slight differences, he played in "The Covenant" or "The Haunting of Molly Hartley." Of course he's absolutely beautiful, and the prospects of seeing him in a film where he played a drug dealer was something I couldn't resist! Well, as odd as it may sound, he once again plays a grounded rich guy who likes a girl...in other words, the usual Chace Crawford fare! I mean, even his drug deals seem more like networking amongst the next generation of privilege! So what is "Twelve" all about? Well, it's about rich white kids who are drug abusers, the children of pill popping, indifferent parents...and that's really about all it is. The title of the film refers to a new drug of choice! There are at numerous times, clandestine suggestions that the wealthy are victims of the jealousy of the have nots. And of course I guess the main climax comes when the disturbed brother of one of the ensemble cast of nobody's shoots up a party and is gunned down by the police...but even that really fails to impart a meaningful message! We already knew that drugs destroy lives! If you've read this far, and you still aren't discouraged about this film, imagine the most deadpan narration in the world, and imagine that it never, ever, EVER shuts up!Yes, I'm talking about Kiefer Sutherland...opening narration might've been okay...but when he kept on narrating, it was an open excuse to avoid actually creating a storyline where people interacted with one another in any meaningful way.I mean, in the one scene, after "White Mike" finds out that his cousin Charlie is dead, he goes to a Church. We even get Kiefer Sutherland's voice: "White Mike thought to himself, why am I here?" I mean, c'mon!!!Utterly, utterly annoying and pointless to a painful degree! Were it not impossible for me to just like looking at Chace Crawford, the film would get a 1...but it inches up only slightly to a 2! Don't waste your time on this stinker!
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