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Summary: MUST SEE MOVIE
Review: This movie kept me on my toes from the beginning to the end. Continous action & humor. Movie is far from reality but after all it is an action movie.
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Summary: Really really really cool
Review: The Rock, as others have said is about a guy holding 81 civilians hostage on Alcatraz, threatening to bomb San Fransisco unless a group of soldiers killed under his command are recognized. A group of Navy SEALs, a biochemist, and the only man who has ever escaped from Alcatraz are sent to diffuse the bombs. The whole group of Navy SEALs are killed, leaving only the biochemist (Nicholas Cage) and the escaped convict (Sean Connery). Through the next hour or so, they run around Alcatraz escaping from the marines under the guy holding the hostages and trying to find and diffuse all 15 bombs containing a deadly gas. There's alot of action and is pretty entertaining. Of course, something like this could never happen, and you have to wonder how Cage and Connery lived through some of those explosions, but The Rock is still a really great movie. There's a few funny parts, like with the stylist obsessed with hair, and Connery's character's cynicalness (I don't think that's a word). Buy this movie, it's really great.
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Summary: Good movie, but a little Dissappointed with the DVD
Review: _The Rock_ is a good movie, with good actors and a good story. Nicolas Cage plays the role of a Govt. Chemist who gets roped into helping the Govt. deal with a renegade General, Ed Harris, who has stolen nerve gas and intends to use it.The have to break into Alcatraz in order to recover the gas. In order to do that they have to enlist the help of a "criminal of the State" played by Sean Connery. All of this turns into a wonderful action movie with a bit more to the plot than your average summer movie. The DVD however left me a little dissappointed however, as it and the Movie was not that much different than what I had on tape. If you don't own the Rock then get it on DVD, if you already ahve a widescreen verion of this movie, I would wait until it became a bit cheaper to buy.
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Summary: Better than most Bruckheimer films.
Review: You can always tell a Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay movie even if you only see about a minute of it. What is their obsession with explosions? Granted, for this movie, they were pretty much necessary to certain parts, i.e., the thermite plasma and the incendiary bomb dropped into the tunnel system. But their other movies (Armageddon, Con Air) go way into the realm of the unrealistic. I got to wonder if the movie would have been better if it been made by a different team. One thing that was really annoying, something I didn't notice until recently, was the constant sounds of weapons being cocked. A guy could be holding an M16 or an MP5 and all he'll do is move it a few inches and you'll here the chuk-uk of the action being worked. I got to admit it sounds cool, but in real life, each time you hear that sound, a round would fall to the ground. Bruckheimer/Bay put too much of their own B.S. into movies and that really takes away from it. I think "The Rock" is their best film, due mostly to the actors. Basically, a good action movie but too much B.S.
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Summary: ok
Review: got some good action sequences but don't believe the hype
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Summary: action hero stuff
Review: this film is the best the first time youve seen it,then after a few times it gets so boreing you cant watch 5sec's of it so my advice is rent it don't buy it.
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Summary: great action and some acting
Review: well, the rock, the big bad rock, this movie is great for a type of person looking for a night of,exitement, action, shooting and just all around dare devils. the plot is very simple, bad guy's take over prison in violent way, but the twist is the reason why they take the prison. just see the movie and then see the twist for your self, the sf are great and the sound was also great , so show off your home theater system,
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Summary: Greatest action movie of all time
Review: The Rock is an excellent movie from beginning to end. From the beginning, Hummel (Ed Harris), a disgruntled war hero, steals the VX Gas Rockets that he will launch on San Francisco. Nicolas Cage is a chemical weapons expert selected by the FBI to diffuse and stop the launching of the gas. Sean Connery is the only man to ever escape from Alcatraz. He is locked up by the FBI because he stole the Microfilm containing everything ever done be the British Members of Parliment and the British Prime Minister. Together, Cage and Connery lead a team of US Navy Seals to stop Hummel. This is a great movie for anyone who likes non-stop action.
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Summary: The Rock ROCKS!
Review: Like other people have said be careful with the volume settings! This film is without a doubt the best action film I have ever seen. Sean Connery is great in his role as an ex-SAS operative. WATCH THIS FILM!
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Summary: The Rock
Review: This is my second favorite action film ever next to The Matrix. I agree with the two other people who said this. The Rock has many excelllent things abut it. One is acting. Nicolas Cage is at his best here. He plays chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed who goes along with a group of Navy SEALS to neutralize several VX poison gas rockets and take over Alcatraz a.k.a The Rock. Sean Connery does an excellent job also and in my opinion, does the best job of acting in this movie. He is British spy John Mason whom the Americans have held illegally in a prison for over 3O years. He is the only man to have ever escaped from Alcatraz. He goes along with Cage and the SEALS. However, if you want to see better slightly Sean Connery, check out Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or some of his OO7 films such as Thunderball, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, or You Only Live Twice. Ed Harris does a great job as mentally disgruntled General Hummel. He holds San Francisco hostage and if the U.S. government does not pay money to his dead soldiers' families, he will fire the rockets. However, he ends up messing up the launch coordinates so the rocket goes into the sea. He gets killed by one his own men. The action is very spectacular in this film. There are several hand-to-hand fights and gunfights at Alcatraz and a great car chase through San Francisco. Another great thing is music. I loved the background music in this. This is a great action movie. If you want to see other great action films, check out The Matrix, Con Air, Air Force One, Crimson Tide, or Face/Off.
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