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The Rock: Directed by Michael Bay. With Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer. A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.
- Michael Bay
- 3 min
It was very much classified as a guy movie. Soldiers vs Soldiers. Lots of guns, explosions, helicopters, car chases, and witty yet cringey dialogue. At the time, Michael Bay wasnt in everyones face like he has been from 2007 and onward. Bad Boys was also a well received fun action flick.
- "Welcome to The Rock"
- The Tragic Villain
- Stanley Goodspeed
- John Mason
- Welcome to the The Rock Film Wiki
- Reviews
Learn more about one of the best action films of the past 20 years.
Frank Hummel did what he had to do, but at the cost of his own life and through extreme measures
The brilliant scientist who saved San Fransisco.
The only man to escape Alcatraz.
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is a critically-acclaimed 1996 cult classic action-thriller film produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Michael Bay and starring Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery and Ed Harris. The Rock is a heart-pounding action film that pulls you into the abandoned and rotting cellblocks of Alcatraz Prison on an island known famously as "The Rock" ...
•"Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been." - Richard Corliss, Time
•"The yarn has its share of gaping holes and jaw-dropping improbabilities, but director Michael Bay sweeps them all aside with his never-take-a-breath pacing." - Todd McCarthy, Variety
•"an action picture that rises to the top of the genre because of a literate, witty screenplay and skilled craftsmanship in the direction and special effects." - Roger Ebert
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Summaries. A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco. Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I.
PLOT: Stanley Goodspeed (NICOLAS CAGE), is a chemical expert for the FBI. He's called to duty when Brigadier General Frances Hummel (ED HARRIS) takes over Alcatraz Island with 81 hostages. Hummel believes that the government has betrayed its fallen special forces soldiers and their surviving families.
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.
