Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 12/03/1997
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 136 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
The sophomore film from former music video and commercial director
Michael Bay, this fast-paced action yarn featured rapid-fire editing, a cutting-edge rock soundtrack and liberal use of shots awash in a haze of burnished hues, all trademarks of producers
Don Simpson and
Jerry Bruckheimer.
Nicolas Cage stars as Stanley Goodspeed, an FBI chemical weapons expert handed a unique assignment. Francis X. Hummel (
Ed Harris), an insane Marine Corps general, has taken 81 tourists hostage on the abandoned island prison of Alcatraz. He and his men are threatening to bomb San Francisco with deadly gas unless $100 million is paid in war reparations to the families of servicemen killed in covert operations. Goodspeed is teamed with former British spy John Patrick Mason (
Sean Connery), the only man ever to escape "The Rock," as well as a Navy SEAL team. When their military escorts are ambushed, it's up to odd couple Goodspeed and Mason to break into Alcatraz and stop Hummel.
The Rock was the last film produced by Simpson, who died of a drug overdose before the film's release. Solo, his partner Bruckheimer continued making the sort of glossy, frenetic films for which the duo was famed.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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