The Rock (1996)

• Year: 1996
• Released: 07 Jun 1996
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 9 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Rock
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-rock
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Runtime: 136 min
• Writer: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner
• Director: Michael Bay
• Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
• Keywords: fbi, military, san francisco, california, mercenary, terrorism,

	7.4/10
	58/100

The Rock Storyline

Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from F.B.I. Director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with eighty-one tourists, by Marine General Francis Xavier Hummel who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Hummel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but he needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British Intelligence Agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past thirty years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the F.B.I., John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy S.E.A.L. team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire S.E.A.L. team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.

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Michael Bay – Nicolas Cage – Sean Connery

Renegade general Hummel (Ed Harris) has stolen 15 VX rockets, taken over Alcatraz, taken 81 hostages, and threatens to strike San Francisco unless The Pentagon pays him $100M from their slush funds. He intends to use the money to pay the families of the soldiers under his command who the government has disavowed over the years. In order to disarm the rockets, the FBI is sending their chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage). And they’re digging up a mysterious British agent prisoner John Mason (Sean Connery) who once escaped from Alcatraz. When the team sent in to take on Hummel is decimated, Goodspeed and Mason must disarm the rockets on their own.

This is Michael Bay audacity to bring his heart pumping action style to bear. The action is big time bombastic joy. And for the best effect, he allows the actors to have fun in between the action. Nicolas Cage brings a lot of his manic energy and a bit of his crazy humor. And Sean Connery brings the Bond gravitas to the action. Plus the Cage Connery duo is a lot of fun, and they have great chemistry together. This is the best kind of popcorn movie-making.

Me to brain: Sleep for the next 136 minutes and I’ll wake you when it’s over.

Let’s cut to the chase….if you think too much during this movie you simply aren’t going to enjoy it. Often things don’t make much sense (such as furnaces and water systems that are STILL working 33 years after the prison was decommissioned) and much of the film just seems like mindless action and stunts….which really are all true. But if you can look past the mindlessness of the film (and it is 100% mindless), you may just enjoy it.

A rogue general (Ed Harris) is sick of the way the government uses up special operatives and then tosses them aside. So, to make a point, he and a group of his soldiers steal chemical weapons and threaten to launch them into San Francisco from his base at Alcatraz. So, a motley group is assembled to sneak into the old prison and recapture it. And, of course, the entire mission goes south very quickly. What next? Watch the film…or don’t.

The dialog is mostly macho bullcrap and the film is dumb. But it’s very well made dumb….with great music…which is the only reason it managed to earn a 3 . I didn’t like it but I can see how many would.

Renegade Marines?

Renegade Marines. The concept is almost an oxymoron. Yet the premise of this action film is that a rogue marine general Ed Harris, steals some rockets with nerve gas and then takes over Alcatraz island which is now a tourist attraction and threatens to launch strikes into the San Francisco bay area unless his financial demands are met.

After a Navy Seal team is massacred in trying to take the island back it’s up to an aged ex-convict named Sean Connery and a chemical weapons specialist Nicholas Cage to save San Francisco from the USMC albeit a very renegade bunch of them.

The Rock is strictly for action junkies who don’t care about plot or improbable situations. In fact the film should have been familiar to the first James Bond of the silver screen. Sean Connery had some more realistic situations in those films than he does here.

Of course fans of Sean Connery will pay to see him in anything and I’m certainly one of them. Nicholas Cage tries his very best to give the dialog a little meaning.

If I had a favorite in this film however it’s the Navy Seal commander Michael Biehn. It’s a good, sincere performance in a Thanksgiving Day special of a film.

For fans of the players above only.