The actioneer that out-dumbed them all

Rating: 2/10 (1 November 2008)

It was nice to have Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery and Ed Harry in the same movie. Other than that The Rock is a dumb piece of hastily packed-together action scenes. Every situation is dull, no single action scene is anything original or engaging, it's all dumb-out action, loud score, cheap sentimentalism/patriotism with an overbearing sense of professionalism.
Nothing new in it, the epitome of fast food food cinema. This piece of trivia sums it up perfectly: "Average Shot Length = ~2.6 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~2.5 seconds. (About 2900 shots)" No wonder it's not the work of a storyteller, rather one of a butcher-pyrotechnist.