Welcome to the Rock...

Rating: 8/10 (5 December 2005)

The Rock is a movie where old meets new.
It combines two great actors of our time, Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage. Connery was already cool as Bond, but now that he's old and angry he's even cooler. Nicholas Cage is one of those actors that you instantly feel sorry for when something bad happens to their character. I don't know why, maybe it's that face of his.
Plot-wise the Rock has a nice twist near the end and over-all it is very rough but not too icky. One problem that this movie definitely has is the fact that some action-scenes were filmed a little "conservatively", such as Connery's car-chase and the part where Cage gets chased by the marines. You never get a clear idea where either of these scenes are going because they're made up of such tight close-ups and often the camera is pointing in the direction of where they're coming from rather than where they're going.
Also I question the use of the soundtrack near the beginning when the marines steal the missiles as it sounded a tad too patriotic (since these are technically the bad-guys).
Even with these little flaws the movie is exciting, funny and quite impressive all-around.