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The Rock (1996)

R06/07/1996Action, Adventure, Thriller2h 17m
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Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.

Overview

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Sean Connery

    John Patrick Mason

  2. Cast 1

    Nicolas Cage

    Dr. Stanley Goodspeed

  3. Cast 1

    Ed Harris

    Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

  4. Cast 1

    John Spencer

    FBI Director James Womack

  5. Cast 1

    David Morse

    Major Tom Baxter

  6. Cast 1

    William Forsythe

    Special Agent Ernest Paxton

  7. Cast 1

    Michael Biehn

    Commander Charles Anderson

  8. Cast 1

    Vanessa Marcil

    Carla Pestalozzi

  9. Cast 1

    John C. McGinley

    Marine Captain Hendrix

Right, first things first - turn your brain down to simmer for a couple of hours before you watch this and just remember it is meant to be a far-fetched action film. Once in that gear, it's not actually that bad once it eventually gets going. Rogue general "Hummel" (Ed Harris) steals some highly potent chemical weapons, takes some hostages on Alcatraz and points his weapons at San Francisco. It falls to FBI biochemist "Goodspeed" (Nicolas Cage) and the even more rogue prisoner "Mason" (Sean Connery) to take some marines and thwart this lethal attack. None of the acting here is any good - they ...