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The Rock (1996)

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Starring (View all)
Sean Connery Sean Connery
John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage
Stanley Goodspeed
Ed Harris Ed Harris
General Francis X. Hummel
John Spencer John Spencer
F.B.I. Director Womack
David Morse David Morse
Major Tom Baxter
William Forsythe William Forsythe
Ernest Paxton
Michael Biehn Michael Biehn
Commander Anderson
Vanessa Marcil Vanessa Marcil
Carla Pestalozzi


Written by (View all)
David Weisberg David Weisberg
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Michael Bay throws a decent movie our way

15 years, 5 months ago at Oct 26 14:37
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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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11 years, 11 months ago at Apr 25 20:53
1 vote
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
1 vote
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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