Not Worth Much More then a Laugh

Rating: 2/10 (5 April 2003)

When me and my friend sat down to watch "The Rock" we were looking forward to movie our friends praised it as. "The best action movie...ever!" was the general opinion, with only slight variations. The film started out well enough, but felt overly contrived. In terms of Mr. Connery's being questioned, you were just begging for all persons involved to stop acting, for the good of humanity. There came a point in the film where me and my friend started betting on what cliched action movie scene would come next. One rather memorable disagreement was "Dude, there is no way they could put in a car chase, it's just not that kind of movie..." Pausing to look at the screen as a Hummer launched into the air. I can appreciate a good testosterone pumped action flick, but this movie was, for lack of a MORE appropriate word, stupid. The script was lifeless, and a piece of paper was as likely to explode as anything else that did crash and burn in the movie.