Review of The Rock

Action testosterone fueled movie where muscular bodies crash through glass windows in slow motion, fall through glass ceilings or are impaled on some kind of pointed spikes or the number of deaths by slow-motion exploding squib charges.
A crack unit of Navy SEALs is ordered to retake the island, but they are ambushed by the marines, and all but two of the party are killed in a firefight. A team of SEALS into the lower systems of Alcatraz only to be violently ambushed Once on the island, the SEALS, as predicted, are crap and get killed instantly. The team of Navy Seals barely make it inside the prison when things take a dramatic turn for the worse. They are surrounded by General Hummel's Marines in the prison's shower room and mercilessly massacred. SEALS will never surrender and the Marines will never withdraw their weapons. Marine and SEAL are brothers of each other and they kill each other like enemies. Delusion that these jack-offs alpha males are anglo-saxon supermen impervious to bullets, reminds of a Vietnam operation, when a regiment of tough rangers was wiped out by a platoon of Soviet special forces in a narrow valley.

Michael Biehn is at his best, delivering yet another astonishing performance as a Navy SEAL and he and Ed Harris hit the orgasmic climax of the film on the shower room fight. A scene in the Alcatraz shower room where all of the Navy studs are brutally killed in a massacre that General Hummel tries desperately to stop. The slaughter of the heroic Navy Seal Crack Insertion Team patrol of Navy SEAL's are badly killed in the name of their country, the SEAL's are predictably wiped out. It’s a scene where ALL the Navy Seals pile up in that one room, all strung up for one big massacre, bracing for manly death! Michael Biehn as the tough Navy SEAL Team Leader who refuses to stand down, crawling through the carnage as his team are being massacred, still firing. .The mercenary marines were especially cool in their crazed bloodlust. That bathroom scene when all the Navy SEALS get slaughtered with all the slow motion it’s a scene that goes hardcore - commanders going back and forth with endless military jargon, foam dripping from their mouths like beasts in heat, climaxing in a massive shoot out!


10/10