You know, its one thing to see a movie when your ten or eleven years old and think it's the greatest thing in the world. But it's another to see it ten to fifteen years later and still feel like you just saw something amazing and freakin' bad ass. And that is how I felt the other day when I saw THE ROCK on Encore.
Directed by Michael Bay, the film takes place in the San Francisco Bay area and specifically Alcatraz, aka The Rock.
To sum up the plot swiftly, A prestigious general (Ed Harris) not happy with the way the US government treated his soldiers and families previously under his command hi-jacks a couple deadly "VX" poison gas rockets with some fellow marines and holds fort at Alcatraz while threatening to launch the rockets if he, his men, and the before said families are not properly compensated. Tbe Government re acts with a group of navy seals, a bio chemical weapons expert (Nicholas Cage) and a former inmate of the rock thirty years ago (Sean Connery). The navy seals are quickly dispatched by the Marines, and it is left to Cage and Connery to get the job done.
The cast of this film is perfect. Along with above names, the co-stars are John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese in The Terminator), and John C. McGinley, who, if you've seen a movie directed by Oliver Stone, he was probably in it. You may also know him from Office Space or the TV show Scrubs.
There are great scenes and one liners too, particularly with Sean Connery. The scene where the navy seals first enter Alcatraz, and they think that Connery screwed them until he navigates his way through that boiler heater thing. Sick.
Or when he breaks open the glass and says "Womack! Why am I not surprised, you piece of shit."
And of course the prom queen line: "Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."
Connery is superb. And I know that some people just don't like Nicholas Cage, but I don't mind him as long as the camera isn't worshiping him and in this movie it isn't. All the performances are great, and if you remember this film being as bad ass as I do, see it again. It is definitely worth the couple hours.
-The Diesel
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