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The Rock <\/i><\/b>(1996)<\/p>\n
Director: Michael Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay: David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, Mark Rosner <\/strong>from a story by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Sean Connery<\/strong>, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, Vanessa Marcil, John C. McGinley, <\/strong> Gregory Sporleder, Tony Todd, <\/strong>Bokeem Woodbine, Greg Collins, Brendan Kelly, <\/strong>Steve Harris, Danny Nucci<\/strong> and Claire Forlani<\/strong>. Tagline: Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Brigadier General Francis Hummel (Harris) and a squad of mercenaries have taken control of Alcatraz Island.\u00a0 They hold the tourists and tour guides hostage.\u00a0 Hummel has given the government a timeline to pay $100 million which he will distribute to his mercenaries and the families of soldiers who died under his watch.\u00a0 If he is not paid he has threatened to launch a VX rocket into San Francisco.<\/p>\n John Patrick Mason (Connery) is the only man to ever escape Alcatraz island.\u00a0 Mason knows all the passageways and tunnels on the island by heart.\u00a0 He has been held in solitary confinement for the last 30 years for stealing government secrets.\u00a0 The military and FBI believe that Mason can covertly lead a US Navy Seal team onto the island.\u00a0 The Seals will then take down Hummel’s mercenaries. Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Cage), the FBI’s top chemical weapons expert will disarm the rockets.\u00a0 Of the many problems with this plan is that Mason may not be interested in helping the country that kept him prisoner for half his life without the benefit of a trial and Goodspeed has no field experience.<\/p>\n The clock is ticking…<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The Rock<\/em> is Michael Bay’s best film.\u00a0 Bay uses his signature quick cuts to keep the movie moving.\u00a0 He is also surrounded by an excellent cast from the leads down.\u00a0 Standouts include Connery, Cage, Harris, Spencer, Morse, and Biehn.\u00a0 You’ll see familiar faces (McGinley, Todd, Woodbine) in smaller roles.<\/p>\n The Rock<\/em> is one of those films where everything comes together to create the perfect movie experience.<\/p>\n The Rock <\/i><\/b>(1996) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n The Rock (1996) Director: Michael Bay Screenplay: David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, Mark Rosner from a story by David Weisberg,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33291,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33290\/revisions\/33291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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