The Rock (1996)

Posted : 3 weeks, 4 days ago at Oct 26 9:37

Making a good action scene isn't really all that hard. You just need some action to it, and voila. You have a good action scene. Then you just slap some cliched score ontop and edit it nicely. But let's take a look at what action scenes are about; They're about people being involved in action. Be it a car chase, a shootout or even a fistfight, it always involves primary or secondary characters duking it out with eachother. Usually it's the bad guys vs the good guys. Now what is the very definition of a good action scene? Its excitement. If an action scene fails to excite you, it has failed. Contrary to what you may or may not believe, action scenes do not make your palms sweaty just because they're good action scenes. If a movie was nothing but a collage of various back-to-back action sequ...Read more

Rating : 5/10

Posted : 2 years, 3 months ago at Aug 12 6:04

It's a well known fact that Nicolas Cage ruins every film he touches. It still amazes me to this day that the buffoon has an Oscar at home on his mantle. This film is no exception. Despite being a classic hostage-terrorist threat caper, Cage fails to even prove his worth on the comic cliche scales.

The supporting cast is astounding, with heroes such as Ed Harris, David Morse, John McGinlay and the demi-god himself, Michael Biehn trying their hardest to drag this film out of the clutches of auto-fail Cage. They are the only reason this film gets such a high rating. Cage's performance as a tactically inept scientist is laughable. We know he wouldn't be much good in a real life action situation, but making Cage the brains of the operation must have been an in-joke.

Rating : 7/10