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Summary: The Rock, rocks!!
Comment: I love this movie! It came as a suprise to me because I'm not normally a big fan of the action genre. The story itself has levels deeper than the special effects and explosions. You care about the characters and what has and will happen in their lives. Okay, completely believeable, not so much, but that's the fun of the action genre!
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Summary: A Thriller That Rocks
Comment: There are a variety of many-splendored reasons to watch this 1996 action flick, where an early peek at pre-9/11 terrorism rears its ugly head. The performances soar: Sean Connery as a nonchalant killer intent on saving "The City By the Bay" - Nicholas Cage, as his astute but nervous student - and Ed Harris as a fearless mad Marine who formulated a plot to blow up San Francisco through the tunnels of Alcatraz. I enjoyed the love angle between Nicholas Cage and his girlfriend and the redemption of Sean Connery for the one reason on earth he has to live: to make amends with his lovely daughter. See the movie! And have in hand, as I did, your remote control to lower the crash-bang volume. This movie was sooo exciting I lay in fetal position at the end!
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Summary: coolcoolcool
Comment: one interesting fact is that the navy seals are the best anywhere and would have gutted those marines in the first fight.anyway,the moviemakers know nothiung about the special forces.in this great film,sean connery is offered a pardon if hell help some navy seals and a rocket nerd sneak into alkatraz prison to stop some renegade marines from blasting sanfransisco full of rockets filled with cx gas.this stuff will make you "spasm so hard youll snap your own back and thats after your skin is eaten off."why does sean get to go?hes the only guy whoever escaped the prison.so its sean connery and that dorky guy from that movie where there stealing cars.its definately action packed and well written.the dorky guy is kind of a pain.sean connery did quite well in his role as a escape artist extrordinairre.there are all kinds of cool parts!i love it!there is this one stupid part where a marine walks out in front of a rocket and the dork pushes the button and launches him after a lame line about elton john who for the record-SUCKS!this is my favorite sean connery movie but league of extraordinary gentleman is quite nice too.
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Summary: im Sean Connery and im on The Rock
Comment: a top notch action thriller is one of the best action movies of 1996. its about Ed Harris and hes fed up with crap so he organizes a team and they hold up Alcatraz because he's going to launcha missle that'll kill a lot of people. Nicolas Cage, with Sean Connery(a man who knows Alcatraz like he knows his foes), Michael Biehn and a team of professionals go to The Rock and try to get the missles and stop Harris from killing innocent people. some stupid oneliners but otherwise its great with a car chase, missles flying, people eating toxic green balls. it has everything a action movie cooks up. theres a great team of other actors like William Forsythe, John Spencer, Vanessa Marcil, Tony Todd, Bookem Woodbine, John C. Mcginley, Steve Harris and Anthony Clark(who is gay and funny in this movie) that cook up those ingredients and give us a good ride
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Summary: Well-acted action thriller
Comment: Featuring Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris,this is a fast-paced action thriller that is, of course, very well acted and full of energy.
The cinematography is topflight, as is the direction, and it will keep you interested until the end, as a good yarn should.
I would rate it as an easy five stars except for the message the story-line pushes: that the government has stiffed our combat soldiers and treated them with anonimity, and when they are killed refused to treat their survivors fairly. This is simply not even remotely true, and for me it almost ruined an otherwise good story. It was the supposed motivation for the heavy, very well played by Ed Harris (who played John Glenn in The Right Stuff), to lead a terror attack on his own country--a man whom, in the story had won the Congressional Medal of Honor (In my years in the service I met only one such man). In the story the other military men simpathized with him. So unlikely an event that it almost made me vomit. I know of what I speak. I was retired for service-connected disability, and have been very will treated by my grateful nation.
The writer also took the usual jabs at J. Edgar Hoover, one of the Hollywood left's favorite targets, and finally insinuated in the conspiracy theory of JFK's death with the clear implication that the government was involved, as well as an allusion to the Roswell 'flying saucer' secrecy conspiracy wherein the U.S. Air Force was supposed to have captured alien spacemen and kept it secret--another kook favorite.
This is a fine film, well acted and produced. Forgive me if I dwell overmuch on the leftist propaganda aspects which are, after all, typical fodder from Hollywood. But I get very tired of story lines that always, always make our government the bad guy, all in the name of entertainment, and contribute to that image among people who know no better.
It WAS good entertainment. I'm probably just too politically inclined to give an objective view.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre, USN (Ret.)
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
