I will never forgive Joel Shumacher for making BATMAN AND ROBIN. Since then, I’ve sent the overblown director several pipe bombs, anthrax envelopes, and infected hookers, but alas–he’s still making movies.
His next film is TWELVE, starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Ellen Barkin and Kiefer Sutherland. It seems as though no matter how many cheesy stinkers Shumacher is responsible for, grade A talent (fiddy cent excluded) still seems to flock towards him. The film follows a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer as his pimp life worsens when his cousin is viciously murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime.
The cast is strong but Shumacher is weak so this one is a total toss-up. The story sounds strong and the cast is stellar, but this is the dude that put nipples on Batman’s chest; aka The Antichrist.