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The Rock
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse
Directed By: Michael Bay
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CONNERY,SEAN
EAN: 9781558907270
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 6304711891
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1997-12-03
Running Time: 136
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1996-06-07
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An FBI chemical weapons expert joins forces with a former British spy to rescue the hostages held on Alcatraz island by a group of Marines who have missiles loaded with poison gas.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 25-JAN-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Summary: adventures on an island
Comment: This is a story of 2 men who come together from completely different backgrounds, where they meet in San Francisco - a city where anything's possible. Goodspeed, played by the ever lovable Nicholas Cage, is a doctor who knows a lot about chemicals - he's always talking about those chemicals, it's just his *thing*. His girlfriend is pregnant - and at the beginning of the film they plan to marry - but unforeseen circumstances bring him to the West Coast. Mason on the other hand, played by a stern and tough Sean Connery, is an old rugged man who is locked in his room reading books and philosophizing about life. "In another life," Mason admits in one scene, "I wish I were a poet or a farmer."
Against all likelihood, the men are united on a mission "to save a city", as one character puts it. After a number of transforming events, Goodspeed's intellectual prowess and his knowledge about chemicals uniquely compliments Mason's rougher edges. And despite Mason's shortcommings, he's very good at acting on instinct, a quality that Goodspeed lacks. It's an unlikely couple to say the least, but the 2 actors definitely have great chemistry.
They first meet in the streets of San Francisco in a dazzling scene that can only be described as riveting and heart-pounding. They roam through those streets as if they owned the city, and in their own particularly ways, they seem to wreak havoc wherever they go.
The plot begins to pick up when Goodspeed's job eventually takes him to a remote relatively isolated island off of the city's coast, where he is asked scour the island for those chemicals that he knows so much about, which are being used by some macho guys in their big rockets that they're flaunting at everyone. Despite being hesitant at first, Mason eventually decides to join Goodspeed on the island, where the two experience mishaps and mayhem wherever they go. Sparks and explosions light up as Goodspeed and Mason find out that they're not so different afterall. All the while, through a number of plot developments and twists, their excursions take them through underground hidden passageways and abandoned buildings and lighthouses, even SCUBA diving underwater - all in search of those chemicals that Goodspeed is so determined to find.
The screen lights up as they cross paths with other characters who have also situated themselves on the island - these include tourists, generals, and even a group of specially trained Marines.
There's a bittersweet happiness at the end, when the two characters must part. Mason needs to return to his life of annomity back in SF Bay where he also has an estranged daughter, while Goodspeed reunites with his fiance. Although nonetheless the guys have experienced intense life-changing events that will likely forever change their lives. Heart-thomping action, betrayal, loyalty, deceit, poetry, disguise, lots of action and lots of male-bonding, somehow they've all made it into this rather energetic film.
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Summary: Nicolas Cage best Action Movie With Some Good Humor Added
Comment: This movie absolutely amazing from beginning to end. It starts out pretty quickly with Ed Harris who steals V- Ex poisen gas along with fell troops because he wants to get back at the government for not paying the families of troops that died during desert storm. Harris locks up people during a tour at Alcetraz in order for him to make cash demands to the government or he will use the weapons they installed filled with the gas to kill people through out the San Franciso area and the people in Alcetrez. Nicolas Cage places a biochemist who helps the government to dismantle the weapons because he is an expert in V- Expoisen gas. Enter Sean Connery who was a prisoner at Alcatraz and the only one who managed to escape. They need him because he knows the insides and outside of the place so well among other areas he managed to escape from. The humor beginns when Cage and Connery first meet. This is what makes the movie even better. The chemistry between them is so funny and you add the great action in and an exciting high tension ending makes for a great entertaining movie you will enjoy. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Top notch entertainment
Comment: This is cracking stuff. Plenty of stunts, good one liners, car chases, gunfights - in fact it's pretty much perfect action cinema. A guaranteed good evening's TV.
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Summary: Class action
Comment: This is a fine, in many ways typical, Hollywood action movie, that without its fine cast wouldn't have been half the movie it is. What makes the film work so well is the performance of Sean Connery as an SAS soldier whos been kept under lock and key by the US as he had discovered the truth about JFK and numerous other US follies. In the Winter of his career (age 66 when this was made) Connery still had that magical screen presence that only a few actors are blessed with.
Pushing him close though, is a fine performance by Ed Harris as the rogue General who steals a nummber of VX missiles armed with a deadly nerve agent. Connery is the only man who knows how to get into Alcatraz (which the General has taken over) and is released to help the military and Nicholas Cage, a chemical weapons expert, get the missiles back.
This was a fantastic film to see at the cinema. I have docked it a star for a few too many over the top moments. On the small screen it does lose a little of its flash and dash, but overall though this is still a hugely entertaining film.
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Summary: Two great actors = great movie!
Comment: Loved this movie. Bought it for my 18 year old, who was too young to see it as a new release. He loved it! Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery are two fantastic actors whose appeal never ages!
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