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The Rock (1996)

R 06/06/1996 (US) Action, Adventure, Thriller 2h 17m

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Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.

Overview

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. Hummel demands $100 million in war reparations to be paid to the families of slain servicemen who died on covert operations. After their SEAL team is wiped out, Stanley and John deal with the soldiers on their own.

Michael Bay

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Mark Rosner

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Douglas Cook

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Jonathan Hensleigh

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Quentin Tarantino

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David Weisberg

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Aaron Sorkin

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Sean Connery

John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage

Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Ed Harris

Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
William Forsythe

Special Agent Ernest Paxton
David Morse

Major Tom Baxter
John Spencer

FBI Director James Womack
Michael Biehn

Commander Charles Anderson
Tony Todd

Captain Darrow
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A review by John Chard

8.0

Written by John Chard on August 25, 2019

Welcome to The Rock.

The Rock is directed by Michael Bay and written by David Weisberg, Douglas Cook & Mark Rosner. It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe & Michael Biehn.

When a highly decorated army general (Harris) decides that he's had enough of his men dying and not getting the credit they deserve, he commandeers Alcatraz prison with a crack unit of Mercs. The plan is to hold the government to ransom or he will unleash from the prison biological rockets to bring Armageddon down upon America. Enter chemical weapons expert Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (C... read the rest.

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