The Rock
There haven't been many good new movies out lately, so I've been watching oldies. Tonight I rewatched The Rock ...
a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with William Forsythe and Michael Biehn co-starring.
In the film, the Pentagon assigns a team comprising an FBI chemist and a former SAS captain with a team of SEALs to break into Alcatraz, where a rogue general and a rogue group of Marines have seized all the tourists on the island and have threatened to launch rockets filled with nerve gas upon San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays $100 million to the next-of-kin of 83 men who were killed on missions that the general led and that the Pentagon denied.
This is one of my favorite past movies. Partly it's because of the actors ... Cage, Connery, Harris, Michael Biehn (Terminator/Aliens), and John Spencer (West Wing), but I like the story too. Warning - spoilers will abound ...
The movie begins with a scene that explains why General Hummel (Harris) decides to take the radical steps he has of kidnapping the tourists on Alcatraz and threatening to fire missiles armed with VX nerve agent at San Francisco ...
The government sends a team, which includes Mason (Connery), a still-in-custody former prisoner of the Rock, and Goodspeed (Cage), an FBI chemical weapons expert, led by Michael Biehn as Commander Anderson. Here is his main scene, as they break into Allcatraz, and things start to go terribly wrong ...
Later, Mason gives himself up to the terrorists to gain time for Godspeed to find the missiles ...
I won't tell you what happens next, but it all ends well ...
Yes, it's old, but still worthy of a watch. Here's what Roger Ebert wrote about it when it came out (3.5 stars out of 4) ....
an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.
a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with William Forsythe and Michael Biehn co-starring.
In the film, the Pentagon assigns a team comprising an FBI chemist and a former SAS captain with a team of SEALs to break into Alcatraz, where a rogue general and a rogue group of Marines have seized all the tourists on the island and have threatened to launch rockets filled with nerve gas upon San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays $100 million to the next-of-kin of 83 men who were killed on missions that the general led and that the Pentagon denied.
This is one of my favorite past movies. Partly it's because of the actors ... Cage, Connery, Harris, Michael Biehn (Terminator/Aliens), and John Spencer (West Wing), but I like the story too. Warning - spoilers will abound ...
The movie begins with a scene that explains why General Hummel (Harris) decides to take the radical steps he has of kidnapping the tourists on Alcatraz and threatening to fire missiles armed with VX nerve agent at San Francisco ...
The government sends a team, which includes Mason (Connery), a still-in-custody former prisoner of the Rock, and Goodspeed (Cage), an FBI chemical weapons expert, led by Michael Biehn as Commander Anderson. Here is his main scene, as they break into Allcatraz, and things start to go terribly wrong ...
Later, Mason gives himself up to the terrorists to gain time for Godspeed to find the missiles ...
I won't tell you what happens next, but it all ends well ...
Yes, it's old, but still worthy of a watch. Here's what Roger Ebert wrote about it when it came out (3.5 stars out of 4) ....
an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects.
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