One Of The Best Action Films (SpoilerS)

Rating: 8/10 (2 September 2002)

It is really a well done movie with a terrific cast (Connery, Cage, Harris, Morse, Biehn, beautiful Claire Forlani). Ed Harris gave it all as General Francis Hummel making this one of the best performances I've seen (perhaps I'm exagerating a bit but I liked it anyway) and that he's done (see also God wannabe Cristof from Truman Show). Besides of what the script and the characters thought and said of Hummel (a good man after all) I was really simpathetic to him to the point I regreted his death a lot.
Good props and uniforms and locations too, and an excellent score with that particular tune that is played on every Bay/Bruckheimer film.

Although there was nothing really bad with the script, I was actually sorry for those SEALs that got screwed as soon as they entered the Rock, which anyway was good to the plot. Only complaint is that it seems to be too inaccurate about technical stuff sometimes.
All in all, one of the best (strictly) action films ever made, if not the best.......... 9/10