this movie is the reason why Michael bay is one of the best directors on the planet and the most beloved

Rating: 10/10 (5 May 2020)

I am a huge gigantic fan of Michael bay he is amazing he is a genius and he knows how to make a very intelligent action movie with a great cast ensemble and great characters with good acting and this is his most intelligent action Goldfest, it is about the Alcatraz prison in san Francisco which is also called the rock and this film takes place in san Francisco and it starts with a group of U S force marines who are led by brigadier general frank Hummel played by ed harris and his second in command major tom baxter played by David morse, they storm a heavily guarded naval weapons depot and then steal a stock pile of VH gas armed m55 rockets then the next day Hummel and his men along with a captain named Frye played by David Sporleder and USMC force reckon captain Darrow played by tony Todd seize and capture the island under control by taking tourists hostage and threatening to launch rockets against san Francisco saying he will destroy it. later the pentagon and the fbi develope a plan to retake the island with u s navy seal led by commander anderson played by michael beihn. meanwhile dr stanley goodspeed played by nicolas cage who was once an fbi special agent is doing experiments and is a chemical weapon specialist and is also engaged to a girl named carla pestalozzi played by vannessa marcil he is even having a child with he then fbi director james womack played by john spencer forces to pardon john mason played by Sean Connery who has been sentenced in prison for two decades and then escapes from prison he is also seeking out his estranged daughter jane played by . he then meets goodspeed and they team along with the navy seals on the orders of the government and the navy to infiltrate alcatraz and stop the marines from launching the rocket ships by removing the chips and killing some of the men though Hummel and his remaining soldiers are alerted and mason and Goodspeed are ambushed in a shower room with some of the seals killed and godspeed and mason are captured and hummel then threatens to kill the hostages if they dont surrender the chips but mason destroys the chips and surrenders just to buy godspeed some time but later they both escape and then disable another rocket as they lost their incursion team the millitary initiates an airstrike mason then explains why he was held prisoner because he was a sas captain who stole a microfirm details that are guarded secrets of the united states
. hummel then argues with his men to abbort the mission while redirecting the rocket to detonate at the sea he is then confronted by darrow and frye and is wounded with baxter being killed he then tells godspeed where the last rockets are before dying the members of the marines Darrow and Faye presume their plan but instently fail as soon as mason and godspeed confront them separately with godspeed tricking darrow into being pushed out by the rocket and making him fall into being impaled by a long pole and pushing one of the poison gas pearls into frye's mouth as well as mason beating throwing Seargent crisp of a building and into crashed broken objects killing him. then jets are sent to bomb the base but godspeed signals the threat as over while holding two flairs but the jets stil drop one bomb causing a mass explosions throwing godspeed in the water with mason rescuing him they then part ways with godspeed faking masons death by saying he died in the explosion it ends with godspeed marrying his fiance carla and then go steal microfirm from the church. this is one of the best movies of 1996 and the best 90s action films it has lots of well filmed action and everything about this movie is good it is without doubt a classic the scnes are shot well and the cast did a very good job with nicolas cage playing as a specialist very well and sean connery playing as a spy agent and ed harris playing as a marine commander everybody did a terrific job with their roles the acting was great, the production design was great, the cinematography was great and the special effects were good Michael bay may well be the martin Scorsese of action movies he Definetly deserved an oscar for best director nomination for this cinematic Goldfest and he could very well have recieved the nomination but lost to anthony Minghella for the english patient Michael bay was definitely robbed an oscar for this masterpiece he is the king of gold, a talented genius, an amazing auteur, an awesome superstar, and a very smart and intelligent artist or whatever you all want to call him he is all of those things and this awesome movie proves he is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time along with, peter Jackson, James cameron, Steven Spielberg, john ford, spike lee, billy wilder, William Wyler, Francis ford Coppola, martin Scorsese, Joel and Ethan Coen, Quentin Tarantino, tim burton, george cukor, alfred hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick Howard hawks, George Stevens, Fred Zinneman, Joseph l Mankiewicks, Werner Herzog, Robert Zemeckis, Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson Ridley Scott, and many more of those terrifically talented artists and to me he is so good directing that he is worth comparing to other talented people who do other Professions famous or not all that are superstars with great talents and deserving every ounce of strong praise and again with this work of art he deserves more credit and praise than ever and also give thanks to jerry Bruckheimer for producing the film as well as don Simpson who died while this was being released after this is when Michael bay began replacing Simpson as co producer of the next films he made with jerry Bruckheimer they make a good team as always when they worked together and are responsible for the most beloved blockbusters of all time, its no wonder why this received widespread acclaim from most critics and from all of the audiences it is so great of a movie that even bay haters love it Alot. the rock rules it is a fantastic movie that deserves a score of 100 on rotten tomatoes, a Cinemascore grade of A+ and an 8.8/10 on imdb it is for sure the citizen kane of action films i loved it so much and thank you Michael bay and jerry bruckheimer for this amazing masterpiece.