SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

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.

Zacio Geribello I wouldn't go so hard on this movie, because the project seems to be focused on concerns about drugs hitting youth so hard. This theme is the key for the plot, then. Usual standards we use to say that was a good movie or was not should be adjusted in this case.It's not documentary or journalistic language, but it has a very strong presence of the narrator. It'd be interesting to discuss that, because the narrator dominates the story. Is it good or bad? Well, it is good if you want a different approach on these matters, but it is not so good if you wanted a more intense contact with the characters. I felt both ways. I'd like the characters to be more present in the movie, but I know why they are not, while there is the narrator instead, and there is a good reason for that.A narrator at first is not forbidden nor has a special receipt for it. It is aesthetics, I mean, it works or doesn't for a given style and a story. If narrator's speech can express something essential in the story in a very singular way, then it's a match, and I believe this is the case. This narrator speech created a special thriller climate, brought more context information and finally gave the whole movie a sense of loneliness, isolation and powerlessness. That's why the narrator takes most part of the voices of everyone. This lack, this silence, means something we have to think about. So, if this story was important to be told in 90 minutes, it was not bad at all. Of course we would like a further development of the relationship between White Mike and Molly. Except for the narration sequences and the theme itself, the possible romance between them would be the central key of the plot, in a "regular" movie, but there was not enough space and time to show more involvement and complications, in this one. There was another story to be told.The final result is a bigger impact on the drug problem, in a culture where considerable part of the youth is going in a doubtful direction, without good perspectives or conditions to think about their lives and their world.

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.

happyaua i somehow ended up watching it in the cinema cause there was nothing interesting being shown that night. we hoped that it would be some light entertainment, some stylish flick. but hell no! it proved downright stupid while pretending to have Some depths, being a teen drama and all, telling you about the harsh lessons you oughta learn growing up. i think that's why some of the reviews are so aggressive cause to me, being part of the audience, it also was aggravating. you can't help but feel insulted, e.g. intellectually. luckily i was in good company watching this and me and my friend kinda enjoyed it the way you enjoy trash movies, joking, commenting and laughing -mostly of despair. still the anger remains. (this review was obviously written out of that vengeful spirit.) it's something different to watch crap like that in cinema, paying for it and, given the pr, having had no clue that it's crap. more respectful pr would try to underline the positive instead of telling lies. in this case: it's trashy, which can be fun to watch, at least for some of us. and not to few: it was cool when at the intendedly dramatic moments in the end there was laughter from different parts of the theatre. but for trash gourmets and their DVD evening it should definitely be fun. the stupidity and grossness of it is artistically woven through the script (dialogues, narration, characters), the acting, and the visual extravaganza, which at times is almost unbearably pretentious. i think the term to sum up the movie would be "pathetic". please watch it, if you hate it!! you get to feel such a variety emotions watching trash deliberately. and also i want others to suffer that movie, too^^ -but don't contribute to this thingy financially.