Action Thriller of the Highest Caliber !

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2010)

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Director Michael Bay team up for one of the Greatest Action Thriller Movies of All time! On that scale , it gets a 10 ! And deservedly so !
When making films that don't require the viewer to think, but just sit through Top-Rate Action, Explosions, Chase Scenes, then "The Rock" fires on all cylinders.
Mix in some terrific performances John Patrick Mason(Sean Connery) and Stanley Goodspeed(Nicholas Cage) and you have 136 entertaining minutes. Connery and Cage deliver Tour-De-Force performances that you have to see to believe. Connery, after many disappointing films comes shining through with dead pan deliveries and throw away lines that will have you rolling in the aisles. His focus is dead on.
As a convicted ex-British Army Military Personnel, Mason is released from prison conditionally to help defeat Gen. Hummel(Ed Harris)and some rogue Marines, who have stolen Hi-Grade Biological military chemical weapons and threatens to use it on the City of San Francisco if his extortion demands are not met.
Cage and Connery are frick and frack. Cage the out of the water Bio-Tech FBI Agent, and Connery the wily veteran who wants only to escape, and reunite with his daughter.
To defeat the General, they must go to Alcatraz Island(The Rock), kill the General and his men, disarm the weapons, and release the hostages.
Almost non-stop action once on the "Rock." Top-Notch !
This film is highly addictive and infectious. Hard to stop watching once you start.
Gets a 10 for what it does, provide 136 minutes of thrills and adventure. Doesn't require the viewer to think. Just enjoy...