Welcome to the Rock (The Rock (DVD))

Member Name: P1RAN

Product:	The Rock (DVD)
Date:	20/06/09 (1 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery are brilliant.

Disadvantages: Need to be in the right mood

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 getting the hostages out safely as well as disarming the missiles. This calls for the chemical weapons expert Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) and the federal prisoner John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery). Mason is a necessity as he is the only man ever to break out of Alcatraz and is blackmailed into breaking back in.

Seeing Mason for the first time we immediately find out that he is a very clever man who is capable of escaping almost any situation no matter how many guards there are and in the true Connery fashion it must all be done with a bit of style. As soon as Mason finds out FBI Director James Womack (John Spencer) is involved Mason's strong disliking to this character will soon become apparent.

The car chase is a must see as Mason tears up San Francisco in his oversized Humvee which is apparently capable of hitting everything in sight without getting a scratch. Goodspeed manages to find himself a beautiful Yellow Ferrari which gets some pretty big jumps on the hills of San Francisco. The chase lasts a perfect amount of time with plenty of destruction and will leave you satisfied as we find out a Ferrari can't chase down a Humvee, well not when that Humvee is driven by Sean Connery.

The finale is all about the adrenaline rush as time is slowly running out for Nicolas Cage and we're just trying hoping he's not going to get blown to kingdom come after all the good he has done. Has Mason just left Goodspeed for dead or will he end his tag as a convict and become the hero? It may all have to wait till those final moments.

Special features include an Audio Commentary; specially filmed sequences explaining the making of the film; Storyboards; outtakes; a Jerry Bruckheimer interview and the theatrical trailer. English is the only language available with subtitles available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish

A wonderful cast of the insane mercenaries gives this film an edge over its genre rivals and the chemistry between Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage is clear for all to see. This is definitely a film for action fans and Cage fans, possibly you need to be in the right mood but you won't regret watching it.

Summary: A must see for Cage fans and a brilliant action flick.