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The Rock (1996)
FBI chemist Stanley Goodspeed and an ex-con, former British spy, John Patrick Mason must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
12 June 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 March 1964, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
13 April 1973, New York City, New York, USA
29 December 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 August 1922, Detroit, Michigan, USA
28 September 1964, Dublin, Ireland
3 April 1956, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
20 March 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 September 1968, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA
7 June 1955, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 September 1958, Lakeland, Florida, USA
May 27, 2014
The filmmakers got suckered by their own high-tech effects, turning a potentially clever entertainment into yet another barrage of violence, vulgarity, and excess.
May 27, 2014
The borrowings from other movies, going all the way back to the car chase in 1968's Bullitt, are heavy. But Bay has three leads to lend weight and dimension to characters who are hardly original and flatly written.
May 27, 2014
Since the plot is ridiculous, The Rock works best when it's most light-hearted.
May 27, 2014
As relentlessly dumb and implausible as the Die Hard movies but even more entertaining, this loud and violent action film profits greatly from the galvanizing presence of Connery.
May 27, 2014
The movie's best asset is the old-fashioned, buddy-movie interplay between Cage and Connery - Cage as the frantic, white-collar lab technician who doesn't like guns, Connery as the weathered, resourceful old pro.
May 27, 2014
Connery and Cage are a compelling team and redeem the film from ruin despite the mechanical plot, an excessive body count and a miraculous recovery (you'll know it when you see it).
May 27, 2014
You might need to take Dramamine before entering a Michael Bay movie. The one-time music-video director has an annoying habit of finding the tightest shots, editing the heck out of them and scoring the works to loud music.
May 27, 2014
Neither as cartoonish as Con Air, nor as sentimental as Armageddon, this most satisfying of blockbuster movies deserves further kudos for establishing Nicolas Cage as one of Hollywood's unlikeliest action heroes.
May 27, 2014
For action-adventure fans, it just doesn't get any better than The Rock.
May 27, 2014
If it's not the most awful thing I've ever seen, it's close enough to make me wince.
May 27, 2014
There isn't a shot, scene or sequence in The Rock that doesn't move furiously, typically with colored lights flashing into our faces or onto those of the actors.
July 16, 2014
The Rock is far from the worst movie that Bay's made, but given its roster of impressive performers and promising opening hour, it might just the ADD-afflicted filmmaker's most disappointing.