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Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Sean Connery
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Rock |
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This movie stars an angry general, whose special forces were killed in action, but whose families were denied compensation for their deaths, and he wants to take revenge. He sets up poisonous gas rockets inside the prison of Alcatraz, with around 81 hostages, and threatens to launch them against San Francisco if he does not receive 100 million dollars.
--Eugene Kim, Resident Scholar
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Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Harris) leads a renegade troupe of marine commandoes who take over the federal facility at Alcatraz and seize a stockpile of chemical weapons as well as 81 tourists as hostages. Hummel demands $100 million in ransom to compensate the families of soldiers who have been killed in covert operations and never received restitution. Otherwise, he will launch 15 rockets loaded with deadly VX nerve gas and aimed at the city of San Francisco. Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Cage), a mild-mannered FBI chemical warfare expert, is teamed with John Patrick Mason (Connery), a crusty ex-con who was the only man ever to break out of Alcatraz successfully, to lead the counterattack against the marauders. Director Michael Bay, never known for emotional depth or character development but plenty of action, turned out this loud, fast, and violent 1996 thriller before going on to "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor."
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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A chemical weapons official goes on a mission with an ex - alcatraz prisoner to save the U.S from a chemical weapons disaster. Ed Harris is the enemy in this movie and is a retired military officer.
--dino, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Rock |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 46.7%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 43.3%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- California
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence:
- amphibious landings
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- hanging
- crushed
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
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