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Summary: Great Movie!!
Review: I don't know what Timothy1146's problem is, but I know that this is a great movie. Not really any unbelievably parts and action and humor all around.
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Summary: Spectacular Rock-em Atomic Movie from Bruckheimer.
Review: Man oh Man! Jerry Bruckheimer is truely the king of action movie makers with such greats as " Con Air" and " Armageddon".
This is one of the best he's done, it's about a group of
Terrorist that take over Alcatraz while it's up to Nicolas Cage
and Sean Connery to fight these terrorist before they unlease a
deadly gas into San Fransisco. I think it's one of the best action movies ever made all thanks to Jerry and Company, it's
a thrill ride you must take.
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Summary: An amazing movie...
Review: This movie can be watched time and time again. The great music, action and awesome actors. A definite addition to anyone's dvd collection.
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Summary: Full of humor, wit, and tremendous action!
Review: In Michael Bay's action film "The Rock," a disgruntled retired Marine general takes hold of top secret biological weapons in an attack on the United States government's ignorance of its fallen soldiers. If this sounds contrived to you, trust me, you're in the right territory. Almost every aspect of this film is bogus, unbelievable in its logic, but here's the good part: it never really matters. With producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Bay at the helm of the project, "The Rock" whips its ludicrous story into shape with the very adept use of special effects, a witty and serviceable script, and a trio of lead actors who bring it all to life with a combination of zest, charm, and supercharged intensity. It's got the guts, the ammo, and the brains to make us forget about its story holes and pay attention to the thrill of everything going on before our eyes, and man, it never stops moving. The action begins when U.S. Marine general Frank Hummel (Ed Harris) uses his military status to penetrate a high-security armory and lift dangerous biochemical warfare missiles. Once in possession of the weapons and a crew of devoted Marines, Hummel makes his way to Alcatraz, where he takes a group of eighty-one tourists hostage in a revenge plot against the American government for their refusal to grant compensation to the families of his men who died in Operation Desert Storm. His terms: a delivery of $100 million to be divided among the families of those who lost loved ones, or the missiles are to be launched into the heart of San Francisco. Hummel's knowledge of military intelligence is baffling to the FBI, who agree to his order for compensation while secretly devising a plan of catching the band of Marines offguard. To do this, they call in Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage), an expert in biochemical weapons whose main objective is to diffuse the missiles on the island. Leading the team of soldiers is convict John Mason (Sean Connery), whose imprisonment and escape from Alcatraz decades before is vital to their successful entry into the now-defunct facility. Mind you, this is not one of the most intelligent thrillers ever made; there are illogical occurrences and events that are not to be believed as realistic. Hummel's ease in attaining his arsenal is one such point: if these missiles are as dangerous as everyone keeps saying, then the security surrounding them would be triple the amount of what the movie portrays. Also unclear is the way in which Hummel and his men bring their weapons to the island, and it's also very unlikely that a trio of helicopters could land on the island without so much as a questioning eye from civilians of San Francisco, who are never made aware of the threat that awaits them. These elements aside, this is a movie that is jam-packed with action, one of the finer examples of a thriller in years. Any inhibitions (and they are few) give way to tense sequences of explosions, exchanges of gunfire, and the race-against-time factor as the deadline begins to reach its completion. Bay knows just how to work his audience into a frenzy of suspense, with tightly-knit scenes of incredible energy and pacing that keeps the movie at a feverpitch. He keeps these scenes coming one after another while also working them into the sequence of events, so that they have a purpose rather than just being there for show. The terrific casting of Cage against type and Connery in one of his best modern roles is another one of the movie's assets, to say nothing of the brilliant performance handed in by Harris. Harris is able to portray Hummel as more than just a one-dimensional character; as the time draws closer to the launching of the missiles, we can see him becoming more frantic and unstable. Cage is supremely funny as Goodspeed, who has no knowledge of combat; when crossed with Connery's performance as Mason, who is a self-proclaimed escape artist, the result is some of the wittiest and sharpest humor in an action movie to date. "The Rock" isn't stellar moviemaking, but its grand entertainment with a very nice touch from its cast and crew. The acting zeal adds greatly to the softening of what could have become a serious, and seriously boring, action film, while the scenes of action themselves are charged with incredible energy that results in nothing less than sheer excitement.
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Summary: Crite"Rock"ion
Review: Any movie that belongs to the criterion collection deserves 5 stars in my opinion. The intense action and suspense in "The Rock" will keep you hanging on to your HT setup
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Summary: one of the best action movies
Review: One of my favorite action movies, it has humor as well
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Summary: a hell of a movie, a hell of a DVD
Review: this is one pristine DVD! the picture is crystal-clear, the audio ROCKs, the extras are fully loaded.
believe, it won't get any better. buy this, you won't regret it!
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Summary: More mindless Hollywood dreck
Review: Other than a lack of dialogue,character development,a decent script,a realistic storyline or any point in having been made at all, this is a good movie.
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Summary: It ROCKED!
Review: This was probably, no, definately the best movie I have ever seen. Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery are two of my favorite actors and they [were great] in this movie.
It's about a group of marines who are mad at the U.S for not honoring dead soldiers who died in battle. The marines steal missiles loaded with a chemical weapon, and hide out on alcatraz island. Two men (an ex convict from alcatraz, and a chemical weapons specialist) and a group of Navy seals set out onto the island to destroy the weapons and take down the marines.
When every thing goes wrong, Cage and Connery must work together to defeat the marines and disable the deadly weapons.
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Summary: Worth Watching
Review: A good effort! In an attempt to bring attention to unacknowledged and forgotten servicemen killed in covert operations, Marine Corps colonel Ed Harris, with a handpicked cadre of Marine and Army special forces, seizes tourist site Alcatraz Prison with hostages and threatens to shoot nerve-gas armed missles into San Francisco. Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery arive on the scene with Navy Seals to stop him. Better than most actions films (which granted, isn't saying much), it does have a rather original story line. For once, the villians aren't terrorists or drug dealers, the protagonists aren't cops (well, Nicholas Cage is, but he's a FBI chemical weapons specialist, not a coffee drinking, doughnut munching flatfoot), and the storyline takes a lot of wild turns but still manages to stay on track. I especially liked Ed Harris' character; his portrayal of a career military man as an intelligent professional taking direct (albiet, misguided) action against perceived injustice rather than the homicidal moron that Hollywood usually portrays military men was refreshing and long overdue.
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