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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Before I begin, I think this movie doesn't paint the best picture for us (teens) in the UES- but whatever.I really enjoy the thoughtfulness and captivating scenes in the movie, totally keeps you interested - I just wish there was a little more to it. I don't see why this movie is getting slammed by so many critics and people, I actually thinks its quite entertaining and well put together:I didn't read the book yet (I'm still waiting for it to come) but from what i heard about the book, this movie stay to the book, which is rear in Hollywood these days. It would be interesting to see just how the book and movie parallel each other.The only knack I may have for this movie is the narration, which was a bit much - but still necessary to keep the movie together without having the characters say too much or "over-do" their part. So its like a catch 22.Otherwise, a very good movie that is highly recommended!

Gossip Girl meets Limitless in this clever, fast-paced, independent drama by Joel Shumacher. The story follows Manhattan's elite teenage population and illustrates how even the wealthy aren't immune to the problems of the big city. The film has a ton of characters and is cleverly narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, who helps us keep everything straight. Twelve refers to a new designer drug on the street and the film centers around High School drop out, White Mike (Chance Crawford), who is connected to just about every one. Forced by unforeseen circumstance, White Mike has become their dealer and has all the dirt on these elite people. As for the story, it's a complicated, winding tale, that I honestly found to be intriguing. Crawford is phenomenal as the center piece to everything and finally proves that's he's not just a pretty face. A former model, Crawford has gained popularity as one of the leads in Gossip Girl and it has been said, on more than one occasion, that his looks are the reason, but he proves them all wrong with a gutsy and amazing performance in Twelve. As for the rest of the cast, it's such an amazing random mix of people that you can't help but fall in love with it. In Twelve, there are appearances from everyone from 50 cent to Macaulay Culkin's little brother, Dewey from Malcolm In The Middle, and even Lenny Kravitz's daughter. You never know whose going to show up and what their story might be. Twelve is one of the smartest and most innovative dramas I've seen in years and has earned the rare honor of being called a can't miss film!

What is rich and self-indulgent teenagers of Upper East Side have in common with low-life ghetto scum? Drugs, of course. Particularly a recent, very addictive and expensive variant called "Twelve".The young peddler that brings together the two different worlds is White Mike (Chace Crawford). Mike was a normal kid until his mum dies of cancer. Unable to cope, he drops out of school and starts dealing illegal substances to high-society kids.Everything starts spiraling out of control in domino manner for Mike and his clients in one night of incident.His junkie cousin is killed and best friend Hunter (Philip Ettinger) wrongfully accused of the crime. Ex-school mate Jessica Brayson (Emily Meade) get herself hooked to Twelve. Preppy snowflake was a top student but now willing to do anything to score again. Jessica's friend Sara Ludlow (Esti Ginzburg) is the most popular girl in school and in her own words 'a shallow narcissistic bitch who manipulates everyone for everything'. She charms one of her many admirers Chris (Rory Culkin) to hold her 18th. birthday party at his parent's lush apartment. The gawky lad has his own problems especially with hotheaded druggie brother Claude (Billy Magnussen) who is about to go off the deep end. They are all connected tenuously to the new narcotic and matters come to a culmination at the party.There is no groundbreaking stuff here. Joel Schumacher takes the easy way out and chooses to concentrate on the obvious and clichéd aftermath of drug abuse but viewers will be turned off by the thin plot with unsympathetic characters. Wallows in preachy BS.Background narration by Kiefer Sutherland aimed at extrapolating the players is intrusive than anything else.

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!