From Robert Scucci
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If you need a good reason to call from work this week, nobody will blame you The rock. In fact, you may not even lie if you tell your boss that you cannot work after you have observed Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage Those 136 minutes because The rock The fillings will probably knock directly out of your teeth if you have a good enough sound system at home. It is without question that we all love to protect Michael Bay occasionally because we rely on explosions to tell a story, but the reason why we keep giving him the second chances is in it The rock Is one of the greatest action films ever, and we hope that one day he will do so gold again.
An incredible chain of events, but who cares?
Time to give them the basic outline of the rock So we can talk about how crazy this film actually is.
General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) in the United States Marine Corp Brigadier confiscates Alcatraz Island because after years of loyal service for his country, his men who were lost during his tours in Vietnam never have a reasonable compensation for their families received. After Hummel took 81 tourists hostage, Hummel contacts the FBI and explains his plans to start rockets full of nerve gas that would cause harmful damage to the San Francisco Bay region in the detonation. The rock Prefer the “zero -hour” trope with which we are all familiar with when Hummel gives the US government a period of 100 million US dollars, which means that they act quickly and the threat either or either pay or have to neutralize.
The dream team
How does the FBI plan to intervene?
Nicolas Cage.
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) is an expert in chemical weapons who has no field experience or weapon training outside of his academy and knows that he is a “laboratory rat” that is probably not suitable for grinding with an ax. For the same reason, he is the only person who is qualified to disarm the rockets that Hummel has in his possession, and he has to do it personally, not from a distance because it is in 1996.
“But wait, nobody has ever successfully escaped Alcatraz in the fiction that has escaped this fiction The rock Has established itself, so that’s an impossible mission, isn’t it? “
Incorrect!
We have James Bond … well, sorta.
Goodspeed is informed about the existence of John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), a chiculated British Special Air Service (SAS) captain (SAS), who has not seen the light of the day for 30 years because he stole and hidden microfilm by J. Edgar Hoover, who all darkest and dirty secrets of the US government. Mason is also the only man who has ever escaped Alcatraz, but of course he hesitates to help the FBI on the basis of the need-especially after he was locked up like an animal for a large part of his adult life.
After some conviction and a high -speed hunt that leads to the destruction of half the city (you know, know the thing The fact that everyone can be prevented,) Mason agrees to take over the mission with goodspeed, and signs a document that offers him full pardon after completing the mission … or so he thinks.
At that point I have to remind you of it The rock It takes about an hour to get to the Titular Island prison at all, and there have already been more explosions than they could ever dream.
Every single action film trope that was made perfect
To enjoy fully The rockYou have to expose any unbelief because each scene is more exaggerated than the last. Remember, has goodspeed No faultBut if he has to track down Mason (which drives in a stolen humvee with Breakneck speed), he orders a Ferrari and tears through San Francisco without thinking about it twice.
When Goodspeed and Mason finally come to Alcatraz, it doesn’t take an epic shootout at all to wipe out the accompanying Navy seals that should make the whole heavy lifting. However, this is okay, because goodspeed, who did not even have his own weapon in his person before he agreed to become an action hero, dispute with Mason, who is preparing to escape Alcatraz (again) after he will escape the SEAL -Team had successfully brought into the site.
Every single scene in The rock Is an exercise in the escalation that culminates in a showdown that at the same time “never” and “Let us Effing Go! How unrealistic everything is.
Mark the amount of the action film of the 90s, excess, The rock Is one of these films that I can see once a year and never get full. If you want to testify the reason for this Michael Bay always gets the second chances, especially afterwards Pearl HarborThen you can watch the greatest action film ever on Hulu.
