Sink Like A Rock

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 2002)

First of all, I've spent a good portion of my life in the armed forces, and I can tell you that the type of decisions about life and death begin made by Ed Harris in this movie are overglorified as hell. He leads a cast of annoying, underachieving actors who play this goofy marine outfit who has decided they want to bring
justice to the world again. True, they were portrayed as having some great
injustice done to them in the past, but you don't try to get revenge like some Iron Curtain Communist. Nick Cage is your typical bad actor in this movie, and one has to wonder what ever convinced Sean Connery to go along for the ride on
this movie. Cage is like that shaky trigger finger I had towards the end of my military career...you kinda get used to it but you wish it would go the hell away. To add to the shame, the action is contrived and the plot is udderly rediculous. Some people say the car chase is the best they've ever seen in a movie. Hello! Have you ever gotten out of bed people? I've had more interesting car chases
on my way to the grocery store in my 85 Tempo. Then we get to the part about
the SEAL team. I've come to know a few elite soldiers in my life time, and none of them would be so stupid as to get caught in a shower room at a gross
disadvantage. The whole access to the island is rediculous, crawling through
tunnels of fire and mysterious moving parts that are supposed to look like they have some function in the world. This movie is a horrid depiction of soldiers. Then there's the background music. It sounds like Dean Martin crossed with
really bad John Williams. If they were alive, real composers like Brahms, Mahler, Shostakovich and Hindemith would love to line up as the firing squad to shoot rotten eggs at the people who wrote the score to this movie. You might think this is a negative review, but I actually give this movie a 9 out of 10, for the comedy factor. This is the perfect movie to kick back with a case of beer, and laugh out loud at with your best friends.