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.

this movie is filled with irritating subjects - rich spoiled kids that have nothing to do with their lives but to do drugs, neglecting parents, death of relatives, cancer, flood of guns in the streets, dishonesty and fake of people, shallowness of high school kids in modern time, promiscuity, struggle of an unpopular kid in today's society and his total failure - it's the decadence of the rich and educated society in America, and therefore - the decadence of the American society. America is the lighthouse of the western world, it leads him, the whole world is bombarded daily with American culture, and so the whole world is about to go down with America. it's like "the dark knight" - America is Gotham city, but in this film there is no one to save it. that's why it made me wanna die. that, and the fact I was tired when I watched it.

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.

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!