The Rock 1996 123movies

Watch: The Rock 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from F.B.I. Director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with eighty-one tourists, by Marine General Francis Xavier Hummel who, for years, has been protesting the government’s refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he’s holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Hummel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but he needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British Intelligence Agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past thirty years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the F.B.I., John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy S.E.A.L. team, General Hummel’s men kill the entire S.E.A.L. team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages..
Plot: FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 million in war reparations to be paid to the families of slain servicemen who died on covert operations. After their SEAL team is wiped out, Stanley and John deal with the soldiers on their own.
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	7.4/10 Votes: 339,160
	68% | RottenTomatoes
	58/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3922 Popularity: 33.045 | TMDB

Reviews:

The two lead characters’ impact on the events of the move are pretty negligible, everyone and everything in it is laughably stupid, and you can see here begin to blossom the stereotypes that Michael Bay would go on you ruin everything he ever touched with, but I still kind of like _The Rock_. Maybe it’s just in comparison to all of Bay’s other films, or maybe it’s because it’s the only one of his works I saw when I was still single-digit aged, but I do enjoy it. I’m not willing to defend it, just to re-watch it once a decade or so.

_Final rating:★★★ – I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go. _

Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.

Michael Bay’s best picture.

The sophomore effort from director Michael Bay, this $75 million dollar action film was released nationwide on June 7, 1996 – eventually earning $335 million. The particularly great R-rated premise sees a mild-mannered chemist teaming up with a resourceful ex-con who must infiltrate Alcatraz prison after a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve-gas attack.

Constantly in over his head, and never one to use profane language, Nicholas Cage is excellent as the quirky chemist – often resorting to quips and jokes in lieu of violence. In a character that feels like a sort of spiritual successor to his portrayal of James Bond, Sean Connery is the patient but skilled MI6 operative.

After 30-years of false imprisonment, he’s recruited from jail to help the feds sneak onto Alcatraz – as he’s the only person to have successfully escaped from the prison facility decades earlier. When he’s required to finally put his knowledge of the defunct prison to the test, the disbelief and amazement from his military companions is quite amusing.

The unlikely pairing of these two is honestly the best part of the film. Cage’s zany behavior is a perfect foil for Connery’s relaxed confidence. The British ex-con chastises his younger counterpart on ‘doing his best’. “Your’best’? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and -bang- the prom queen.” After a quick beat and a sly grin, Nicholas responds, “Carla was the prom queen.” This isn’t just a funny encapsulation of their relationship, but one of my all-time favorite exchanges in any action movie.

Ed Harris is phenomenal as the quote, “bad guy” – a disillusioned Marine General whose terrorist actions are only to secure reparations for his forgotten and fallen soldiers. It’s honestly a perfectly understandable, and dare I say noble position; a man willing to commit treason and risk his life to help the families of his former troops.

Which is why the government’s handling, and ultimate dismissal of his ransom request is so perplexing and frustrating. Before ordering a massive aerial kill strike on the entire island, the President gives an impassioned speech (seemingly to an empty Oval Office) about his ‘impossible decision’ – but this only highlights the aforementioned plot hole. Harris only asked for $100 million dollars… why not just give him the money?

The supporting cast is stacked with even more excellent talent; David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Beihn, Xander Berkeley, and Phillip Baker Hall. Of particular note however is John Spencer – who does fantastic work as a conflicted FBI director who reluctantly recruits Connery, Tony Todd who has one of the best on-screen deaths ever, and John C. McGinley whose unrealistic performance as an over-eager Marine makes him seem miscast.

A trio of composers, including Hans Zimmer, bring some interesting and appropriate ideas to the soundtrack, utilizing synthesized themes and electric guitars. It feels reminiscent of the excellent score from the “Rainbow Six” video game that came out two years later.

While this feature never quite breaks the mold, it definitely represents the best possible version of your stereotypical mid-90s action film. For a rewatchable thrill-ride with plenty of excitement and memorable characters, look no further. “The Rock” is explosive fun that never takes itself too seriously. Perhaps Bay’s best film, I thought it was AWESOME.

An action packed, high octane thriller with great performances. ***1/2 out of ****.
THE ROCK / (1996) ***1/2

Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Jon Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe, Bokeem Woodbine, and Vanessa Marcil. Directed by Michael Bay. Running time: 135 minutes. Rated R (for strong intense violence, language and brief sexuality)

Notes taken while screening The Rock:

· The film contains superior character development of both the antagonist and protagonist. Each is clear and well defined. We also learn the characters motives, reasoning, dramatic situation, and premise–all brilliantly introduced within the setup.

· Sean Connery provides us with strong character development through John Patrick Mason–although the character is somewhat a rip off of the Anthony Hokins’ Hannibal from “The Silence of the Lambs.”

· It is uncanny how well the movie’s visual style works. It propels the film’s suspense the extra mile, increasing the tension and enticement. Also contributing to the style is the fitting soundtrack.

· Some of the events are excessively coincidental. For example, during an exciting chase scene, Mason dashes out of a building, escaping the clutches of concealing police, discovering a Hum-V seemingly awaiting his arrival. Experienced chemist, Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage), chases after him, in a high speed Ferrari sitting outside his position in a building. Another coincidence occurs in the high security prison, where Mason escapes a grenade blast by dashing at random into a room, where, of course, there just so happens to be a secure bathtub to climb in.

· There is a stolid, aggressively effective cast present. Each actor contributes a taut, penetrating performance, especially Ed Harris as the film’s villain, General Francis X. Hummel who demands a moral purpose holding the lives of an urban area at stake.

* The character’s motives and perfectly defined, especially General Francis X. Hummel. Even as the film’s bad guy, he serves an understandable position, thus we empathize with him, unlike most villains witnessed in modern day thrillers.

· The standard three act structure is flawless: each scene propels the plot forward. The sequences either create a new problem or complicate a previous conflict, favoring with the later concept. This raises the line of tension even further.

· Most of the production takes place in a high security prison, Alcatraz, crafted with a complex, awe-inspiring atmosphere towering over that of most action movies.

· Sean Connery handles the complicated role of John Mason with mere simplicity, yet easily torments the audience with a sense of omniscient knowledge of the plot.

· The picture is unpredictable and contains several inducing and unexpected twists proving this movie is imaginative and free to surprise us. The conclusion is not fomulatic. “The Rock” is filled with artful design and crafty performances. It is one of the year’s best action films.

Brought to you by Hollywood Pictures.

The Rock rocks
What an incredible ending The Rock had. You had a mutiny within a mutiny, and the action scenes at the end were incredible big time. The rocket man scene was something, and I wonder if North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has this in his DVD collection, given reports in 2015 that he executed a sleepy official with an anti-aircraft gun.

The ending had a racist character, a soldier from the mutiny who made a disparaging remark against Sean Connery’s character who is English. The soldier’s father was Irish, but really Sean Connery’s character was Scottish, so really there is a difference between the Scots and English folk.

The Rock was made about 20 years before Nicolas Cage’s starring role in Left Behind.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 16 min (136 min)
Budget 75000000
Revenue 335062621
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director Michael Bay
Writer David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner
Actors Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 9 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35-III, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 3,733 m (Sweden), 3,834 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, EXR 200T 5293, EXR 500T 5298)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic) (Eastman)