The Rock (1996)

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Directed by

Michael Bay

Starring (View all)

Sean Connery
John Patrick Mason

Nicolas Cage
Stanley Goodspeed

Ed Harris
General Francis X. Hummel

John Spencer
F.B.I. Director Womack

David Morse
Major Tom Baxter

William Forsythe
Ernest Paxton

Michael Biehn
Commander Anderson

Vanessa Marcil
Carla Pestalozzi

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David Weisberg
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Douglas Cook

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Michael Bay throws a decent movie our way

15 years, 5 months ago at Oct 26 14:37

VierasTalo

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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 duk... read more

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Happy Vader

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The Rock is complete bad-ass. If this sentence reminded you of the wrestler, don't bother reading this review. Michael Bay has become synonymous with big-budgeted flicks with little to no soul to them nowadays. The Rock is as arthouse a film as one can get. This film is still to this day his most celebrated film, and his most critically acclaimed, and that's ironic seeing he is less known for his ... read more

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14 years, 4 months ago at Dec 4 1:38

Rahul Prakash

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Nice Movie, I don't like action movies too much though this movie is really nice.

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A renegade general and his group of U.S. Marines take over Alcatraz and threaten San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock attempt to prevent chaos.

Release date: 7 June 1996
UPC: 717951000040

Tags: Action (50), Thriller (19), 1996 (18), Crime (17), Prison (15), Alcatraz (12), Terrorism (11), 1990s (11), Cops (9), Adventure (7), Suspense (7), San Francisco (7), Revenge (6), Nicolas Cage (6), Sean Connery (6), Betrayal (6), (6), Police (5), Gunfights (5), Fbi (4)

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