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Summary: A Movie That Realy Rocks!
Review: I'm really amazed of this Criterion Collection quality. Fortunately, it comes with the DTS soundtrack. Those of you with DTS receiver or compatible player should find all your 6 speakers performing lots of 'work-out'.Picture & audio quality are excellent. This is a highly action movie that will definitely glue you to your seat from the start right until the end credit. My record of watching this movie is 5 times excluding from laserdisc & tv broadcast. You'll never regret this DVD collection!
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Summary: The MICHAEL BAY/JERRY BRUCKHEIMER team rules!
Review: THE ROCK is the story of General Hummell (Harris) who steals four V-X poison gas rockets, holds his command at Alcatraz Island with 81 hostages, and threatens the government, that he will launch them to San Francisco if his demands aren't met. Now ex-Alcatraz escapee (Connery) leads an army headed by Commander Anderson (Michael Biehn) and an F.B.I. Chemical Weapons expert (Nicolas Cage) into THE ROCK. MY REVIEW: "This is one of my top favorite movies! THE ROCK is one of the coolest action movies around! Film making team MICHAEL BAY and JERRY BRUCKHEIMER make the best movies including: ARMAGEDDON and PEARL HARBOR! Nicolas Cage is awesome, and is hilarious as well as Sean Connery! This movie deserved BEST PICTURE in '96 at the Academy Awards! BOTTOM LINE: This movie is superb! It is a non-stop action packed thrill ride of sheer adventure- one of the biggest actioners ever made- if you liked Nicolas Cage in GONE IN 60 SECONDS, FACE/OFF and CON AIR, and if you liked SEAN CONNERY as James Bond- then you will love THE ROCK- especially if you're a big-time action fan! See this movie ASAP! It is awesome"- MJV & the Movies
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Summary: Absolutely amazing
Review: This is absolutely an amazing film. Dont' miss it for the world. Excellent music my Hans Zimmer, too.
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Summary: My Favourite DVD - One of the best!
Review: This DVD is superb! The transfer is brilliant, the extra's are amazing, and the film is one of the best action movies ever made! The Film: The plot of the movie is as follows. A Marine General (Ed Harris) steals some chemical weapons and takes the old prison of Alcatraz as his base of operations. He trains the weapons on San Fransisco, and tells the government that he wants money to be given to the families of the Marines killed under his command. The government turns to an FBI chemical specialist (Nicolas Cage), an imprisoned ex-SAS soldier (Sean Connery) and a team of Navy SEALs (led by Michael Biehn) to get rid of the threat. Needless to say, there are a lot of explosions and gun battles during the course of the assault on Alcatraz. The Extras: The extras on this edition are brilliant! The best feature is The Do's and Don'ts of HollyWood Gunplay, hosted by Harry Humphries and Marshall Teague (he plays one of the SEALs in the movie). It shows some of the mistakes made in films during gun sequences, and how dangerous these can be. Other extras include a brilliant documentary about the prison itself, and some great info about the special effects in the movie. All in All, a great buy, and one of the best DVD's available!
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Summary: Another Great Criterion Disc
Review: OK, you all know the movie, it's a better than average action movie, with a great cast. But this disc is out of this world, image is stunning, sound is deafening, and the commentary is worth the price of admission alone as Cage and Harris in particular are fascinating. Once again Criterion come up trumps, this 2 disc set now sits proudly next to Unbearable lightness of Being and Insomnia for perhaps the first time in it's existence!
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Summary: Turn on the bass......
Review: This DTS track 'Rocks..............'
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Summary: One of the Best Action Movies
Review: A General and a group of patriotic Marines feeling betrayed by their own government have taken over Alcatraz Island and threaten to launch missiles filled with poison gas on San Francisco if their demands are not met. Who's to save the day? A FBI chemical "super freak" with no combat experience (Nicholas Cage) and a retired British Intelligence Agent (Sean Connery) who was a prisoner in Alcatraz. Both must use their wits in order to survive the wrath of the General and the trigger-happy Marines who are loyal to him. Pretty excellent movie from the stealing of the missiles, to the chase in San Francisco and to the fact when Stanley Goodspeed and John Mason find out that they must fight to the end in order to save San Francisco, Alcatraz, and their own lives. Why is it that this movie is good? It has all the elements of an action movie. One star for gripping story. One star for excellent sound and visuals. One star for action other than huge gunfights like the Matrix or aerial situations such as Air Force One. One star for a different type of hero: A scared chemical expert and an aged man who still got his combat skills! One star for the ending (I won't tell you. You'll have to see it!) 5 stars is my rating and there is no good reason why you cannot rate this movie one star.
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Summary: Surprised
Review: I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. I expected a simple adventure movie, and while basically that's what it was, I liked it alot. Ed Harris is so underrated it is a crime.
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Summary: Excellent Film
Review: I have been waiting for this film to come out on dvd for a long time now and at last its out. The Rock is a film that is full of special effects and features some of the best actors around ta the moment. The Rock stars Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage who have to team up on Alcatraz to help stop someone unleashing a missile on the centre of America. Sean Connery was formaly a prisoner in Alcatraz and the only one ever to escape which is why he teams up with Nicholas cage as he knows the prison inside out. The Rock will captivate you from the beginning and wont let you go until the end where you will be begging for more.
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Summary: The Rock - Criterion Collection DVD
Review: As previous reviewers have said, but always left out. The Rock is about a General played by actor (Ed Harris) who's fed up with the United States congress not allowing soldiers who've died in battle have propper funds for their families and burial when their bodies could not be recovered during and after the wars. He takes his team of rogue Marines to a Military Installation, steals a dozen or so VX poison gas rockets, but not before losing a man. He then, captures a tourism class that is viewing Alkatraz Prison, also known as the Rock. Once the U.S are informed of this, they recruit Special Agent Stanley Goodspeed played by actor (Nicholas Cage) whom is expecting a child with his girlfriend. In order to enter the Rock, they need an expert. Enter John Mason played by actor (Sean Connery) who happens to be an ex-British SAS operative who's stole microfilm from FBI Dir. Hoover in the Sixties. Recruiting Mason & Goodspeed, they lead the U.S Navy Seals into the Rock, and the Commander of the SEAL team led by actor (Michael Biehn) confront the marines, but are ambushed and slaughtered but not before giving a fight! Then, Mason & Goodspeed must out think, out smart, the marines and defuse the guidence system chips to de-activate the VX rockets. At the end confrontation is the best, aside from the intense non-stop action!! Buy this movie, for the action. It's worth it!!!
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