The Rock

Name: The Rock 1996 Movie
Rating: 4.8

Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the stills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

Release Date : 07 Jun, 1996

Duration : 2h 17m

Generes : Action Adventure Thriller

Vote Average : 7.1 Vote Count : 4,236 Popularity : 23.32

Top Billed Casting

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Production Country

United States of America

Budget

$ 75,000,000

Revenue

$ 335,062,621

Nicolas Cage..The Rock..1996 talks about Connery and his career...with Jimmy Carter
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Reviews

A review by Bryan Nguyen

Written by Bryan Nguyen on 13 Jan, 2018

Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in. Michael Bay's best picture. The sophomore effort from director Michael Bay, this $75 million dollar action film was released nationwide on June 7, 1996 - eventually earning $335 million. The parti...

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 25 Aug, 2019

Welcome to The Rock. The Rock is directed by Michael Bay and written by David Weisberg, Douglas Cook & Mark Rosner. It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe & Michael Biehn. When a highly decorated army general (Harris) decides that he's had enough of his m...

A review by Gimly

Written by Gimly on 26 Jul, 2020

The two lead characters' impact on the events of the move are pretty negligible, everyone and everything in it is laughably stupid, and you can see here begin to blossom the stereotypes that Michael Bay would go on you ruin everything he ever touched with, but I still kind of like _The Rock_. Maybe ...

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 27 Aug, 2023

Right, first things first - turn your brain down to simmer for a couple of hours before you watch this and just remember it is meant to be a far-fetched action film. Once in that gear, it's not actually that bad once it eventually gets going. Rogue general "Hummel" (Ed Harris) steals some highly pot...