The Rock (DVD)

The Rock is a gripping action/thriller with a comedic yet serious script and an all-star cast including Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage, Ed Harris and David Morse. US Marines, under the command of General Hummel, take 81 civilians hostage in Alcatraz, while on a guided tour. Their mission is simple. They want money from the military’s slush fund to pay to the families of deceased soldiers, robbed of a military funeral and compensation, after completing covert but fatal missions. If no money is paid 15 rockets containing VX Poison gas will be fired at the residents of San Francisco, killing approximately five million. Womack, Director of the FBI, reluctantly ...  Read the complete review

The title is part of what a very stereotypical gay male hairdresser says in the film, infact this is it in full :- I never saw you throw that gentleman off the balcony. All I care about is are you happy with your haircut. General Hummel: Put the phone down. Major Baxter: I'm calling them Frank, I'm asking for more time. General Hummel: You're being asked by a friend. [Baxter continues.] General Hummel: You're being ordered by a superior officer! [Baxter carries on, Hummell draws.] General Hummel: Now you're being given your last chance by a man with a gun. So ‘The Rock’ isn’t the most ...  Read the complete review

The Rock is the 1996 film from Transformers director Michael Bay. It features the world's most notorious prison, Alcatraz, in an action packed film featuring Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery as a pair of unlikely heroes. The Plot Renegade Colonel Hummel takes a team of US marines over to the infamous prison island of Alcatraz and takes control, threatening to unleash biological weapons on San Francisco unless the US government pay $1 million in reparations to each of the families of the men who died under his command in covert operations for the US. He has 81 hostages on the island as well as his band of US marines turned mercenary. The only two men ...  Read the complete review

When San Francisco faces the threat of terrorism from a group of militia stationed on Alcatraz led by General Frank Hummel (Ed Harris), the U.S government calls in FBI chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage) and former Alcatraz escapee John Mason (Sean Connery) to assist a SEAL unit in bringing the shamed General down. While this is dressed up as a smarter-than-your-average action movie, it is still a shamelessly high-adrenaline, fast paced actioner at heart, and has all the hallmarks of a Bay/Bruckheimer/Simpson movie. That might normally be a disparaging comment, for Michael Bay is notorious for OTT stunts, an abundance of CGI effects, lots ...  Read the complete review

A film starring the academy award winners Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage has got to be something special and The Rock is just that. Car chases, Explosions, Gunfights and Clever lines make this the traditional action flick. Throw in a cleverly written plot and you have a film everyone can enjoy. The lives of the millions of people in San Francisco hang by a thread when Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), a military leader gone mad, seizes control of the legendary prison Alcatraz and warn that he will unleash several deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. The government realise they need to keep this thing quiet and carefully plan a way of ...  Read the complete review